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    What do I have to do?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by gogogo, Jan 9, 2008.

  1. gogogo

    gogogo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm about to receive a sony sz680, and i'd like to ask your help with the initial things that i have to do. I just know that i have to make a recovery disk, other then that, what should i watch for? I'm intending to use xp, but i'd like to have sure that i can come back to vista at any time. It's better use the downgrade disks sony provide or to make a clean install of xp and download the drivers?

    Sorry if this is a repeated topic, but i couldn't find any other topic that answer my questions.
     
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    Die Notebook Consultant

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    The Sony downgrade disks, while provide the utilities and drivers you'll need, are horrible IMHO. They still have a lot of bloatware on them after you do the downgrade. AOL, Norton, etc. I'd do the clean install and download the drivers you NEED manually from www.sony.com/support Search around here for guides.

    DEFINITELY make vista recovery discs. The XP Downgrade process erased my hidden recovery partition FYI so the only way to go back to Vista was via the Recovery DVDs I made.
     
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