where to get VGN-Z notebook's drives and sony applications, also adobe products?

plan to install a win7 system from scratch due to windows update issue, may I know where to get all drivers and sony applications, utilities, also adobe product? my hard disk is dead and everything is gone.

 

Alright, so what you need is this tool mod2wim in this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/son...ware-new-sony-format-image-3.html#post3936210

direct link: http://forum.notebookreview.com/att...c-sonys-hidden-recovery-partition-mod2wim.zip

i've done this long time ago on a VGN CR so i think this it will work the same on the VGN Z. just follow what the user "bgd" says and i think you should be fine. Alternatively, there is this newer thread. it's the same process but i don't know if there are anything new as they use it on newer computer

http://forum.notebookreview.com/son...rdvd-etc-sonys-hidden-recovery-partition.html

 

Get everything you need from the Sony support page for your model. If you can't find your model in the list, change your country selection to the country where you bought your VAIO.

You can also search the sticky threads in this forum for an install guide for your model/series.

You can get a much better display driver from here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/son...-vaio-z-s-hybrid-graphics-51.html#post7176699 Make sure you get the one for VGN-Z, not for VPCZ1.

 

learn something new, luckily windows update issue is solved, so do not need to reinstall from scratch.