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    What Are My Clean Install Options on my Z???

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by rpr1, Feb 13, 2009.

  1. rpr1

    rpr1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have Vista Business pre-installed, recovery disks that I burned when I first got the machine, and Sony's XP3 downgrade disk.

    I would like a clean install of Vista. Is there any way to do it with what I have?

    If a clean install of Vista is impossible with the disks I have (seems like it is), how can I do a clean install of XP3 when I only have the Sony downgrade disk (which I assume has all the Sony crapware morphed into it).
     
    rpr1, Feb 13, 2009
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    "No" and "you can't".

    You need to get Windows non-restore disks, and download the drivers from Sony and elsewhere to do a clean install.

    There are instructions here on the forum for doing "semi-clean" installs using the restore disks, often in combination with a copy of a full Windows install disk. IMO, it's all a lot of dickering and work to get an imperfect and unsupported result, just to save the cost of buying another Windows CD+license.
     
    arth1, Feb 14, 2009
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