Win 7 upgrade with Sony Vaio NW11 z t

Hi,

I was hoping that someone might be able to help me - this is my first post on the forum. I just bought a Sony Vaio NW11Z/T laptop which has Windows Home Premium 32 bit installed. I am very happy with it (I got it for about £250 less than the new NW21) but obviously want to upgrade it to Windows 7.

I have read through most of the threads dealing with the many problems that can arise with drivers, etc and given that this a brand new laptop I don't want to do anything that will disable most of its functionality.

I have just bought a Windows 7 upgrade disk as well as I want to get Win 7 working befrore I go abroad for Christmas and didn't want to wait weeks for Sony to send me one through. The problem is that the Win 7 from Sony comes with a compiliation disk of drivers, etc whereas I don't have that right now.

I am minded to do a custom (clean) install of either the 32-bit or 64-bit, rather than simply upgrade it to get rid of most of the bloatware, etc.

Does anyone know if I can get ALL the drivers I need from Sony's website or is it safer to wait to get the disk from Sony (some posts I have read suggest that even then there may be problems with Fn keys, blu-ray drivers, etc. which seems crazy with a laptop released less than 6 months ago!). I am almost minded to take it back having read about all the complications but I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks very much for your help and for making a very useful forum!

 

Having used Sony's official Win7 DVDs to upgrade my NW-125J I highly recommend waiting for those disks. The upgrade process removes all Sony apps and drivers THEN updates the OS to Win7 THEN reinstalls the Sony apps and drivers.

The upgrade process even fixed the WinDVD installation that came broken out-of-the-box on Vista.

As for diskspace, the in-place upgrade was absolutely clean... and I ended up with 20GB of ADDITIONAL diskspace when everything was finished.

 

Thanks for the quick response -- that sounds reassuring that it worked smoothly. I would like to install Win 7 before I go away, but it sounds like it may be a lot safer to wait as you recommend.