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    Z2 Owners - Do you Reformat and reinstall or stay with the preconfigured windows setup

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ComputerMinder, Oct 12, 2011.

  1. ComputerMinder

    ComputerMinder Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have Lenovos and whenever I get a new computer I always tend to reformat the HD, and reinstall the OS from scratch along the drivers that I need. That get rids of the clutter and many programs that come pre-installed on the computer, many of which I don't care about.

    However when I got my new Z2 machine I found out that it may not have that many junk software installed and it seems that I can just install from the control panel stuff that I have no use of.

    So should I perform a clean install or not ?

    Also since I want to get rid of the RAID 0 I would have to reinstall Windows 7 anyway from scratch :(. Does Sony provide all downloadble drivers and their software?
     
    ComputerMinder, Oct 12, 2011
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  2. ota-con

    ota-con Notebook Deity

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    I left my system as it it since I find it super fast anyways.
    If you break the RAID, you will need to reinstall windows.
     
    ota-con, Oct 13, 2011
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  3. vaioX

    vaioX Newbie

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    In the past I also started from scratch. This time I left the preinstalled OS alone. I did remove all unnessery software.

    The raid 0 configuration is so incredible fast, I would leave it alone.

    All the sony drivers are available. With previous models the install order of the sony drivers and sony software was very important. So look for a clean install guide for the vaio z2 if you want to do a clean install.
     
    vaioX, Oct 13, 2011
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  4. Palda

    Palda Notebook Consultant

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    I am still on testing configurations, but I have made image of a disc the moment I first opened it, so I'm preparing to go back to factory state, deinstall crapware starting with McAffe and leaving much of Sony software installed, but dormant. Also I disabled few services according to blackviper guides. And I'm happy with the performance :)
     
    Palda, Oct 13, 2011
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  5. ZoinksS2k

    ZoinksS2k Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm sticking with the Sony build. For reasons I don't understand, the Sony build boots faster.
     
    ZoinksS2k, Oct 13, 2011
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