New Sony Laptop... can i format it and keep WMC?

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How Do :)

just got my new VAIO FE31H (its bloody lurvly :D) - and anyway, as always it is jam packed with crap i dont need so i'm gonna format...

does anyone know if all i have to keep it the driver pack download from the sony site or is there other stuff i need? theres not much info on it cuz sony want you to recover the drive from a hiden partition image rather that format but that don't sit well with me as it sticks back on all the crap i am trying to get rid of...

so my question is: if i use the recovery facility, can i stop before it installs all the stuff i dont want? if not, and i install my own copy of windows, do i just need the downloadable driver pack to get up and running :)

Cheers :)
 
look in the root of C:\ or another partition. The drivers should already be there. Did you not get a disk with your laptop for the drivers / software.
 
zen62619 said:
look in the root of C:\ or another partition. The drivers should already be there. Did you not get a disk with your laptop for the drivers / software.
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nope :( - never mind

so if i just back up that folder then reinstall windows and restore the folder it'll find em all ok and sort it all out (i'm crap with notebooks)
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
nope :( - never mind

so if i just back up that folder then reinstall windows and restore the folder it'll find em all ok and sort it all out (i'm crap with notebooks)
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Can't you just download the drivers for your laptop put em onto cd? then install windows (f you have the disk) (os).
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
How Do :)

just got my new VAIO FE31H (its bloody lurvly :D) - and anyway, as always it is jam packed with crap i dont need so i'm gonna format...

does anyone know if all i have to keep it the driver pack download from the sony site or is there other stuff i need? theres not much info on it cuz sony want you to recover the drive from a hiden partition image rather that format but that don't sit well with me as it sticks back on all the crap i am trying to get rid of...

so my question is: if i use the recovery facility, can i stop before it installs all the stuff i dont want? if not, and i install my own copy of windows, do i just need the downloadable driver pack to get up and running :)

Cheers :)
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If its a sony, i think there is an option to create a backup CD of the drives or OS somewhere on the system. Take a look for that it should be there, unless it depends on the model.
 
Be careful with Sony VAIOs. The boss has a lovely 17" widescreen model, which had XP Home on it. My colleague just straight formatted all partitions, deleting the other partitions, without creating the backup CD/DVD and he found that he couldn't restore all the programs (some useful ones) by downloading them... they just weren't available from the Sony site. Cost him £30 or something to get a CD with them on.
 
First thing I would do for a laptop is download the drivers needed for the laptop, then reinstall the OS without all the programs that come with it and take up important system resources.

I hate it when it comes with already installed applications like AOHELL, norton internet security e.t.c. Just pants.
 
how do :)

i did create the all important recovery dvds before i started, then i went on to format and install my copy of xp pro... however, i just couldn't get it all working properly with my windows... hibernation wasnt there, the audio wouldn't work (the drivers wouldn't install was coming up with errors) and a few other things, so i'm just "recovering" it now with the original discs to restore media edition :(

if the drivers dont work what choice have i got? i'll just have to uninstall all the crap which i am not happy about...

there are three stages to the restore:

1) system recovery
2) windows setup
3) application recovery...

in a minute i'll find out if i can interrupt the process between 2 and 3... hope so :)
 
zen62619 said:
Can't you just download the drivers for your laptop put em onto cd? then install windows (f you have the disk) (os).
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do that, test that the sony key works on the xp disc that you have.. (do it in virtualpc/vmware)

then format using the xp cd, removing all partitions


-edit, there will be drivers that work for the laptop, try different ones

or use the recovery dvd to bring it back to sony's xp, then use double driver -google it, to backup all the drivers to a folder ;), then format using normal xp disc again! :o
 
bledd. said:
do that, test that the sony key works on the xp disc that you have.. (do it in virtualpc/vmware)

then format using the xp cd, removing all partitions


-edit, there will be drivers that work for the laptop, try different ones

or use the recovery dvd to bring it back to sony's xp, then use double driver -google it, to backup all the drivers to a folder ;), then format using normal xp disc again! :o
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I never new of an application that ever did that. Wow im intrigued now. :)

EDIT: look at all the drivers :) I love ittttttttt.

 
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dont know how well it handles sata/raid textmode drivers for nlite integration -it probably doesn't

but the rest of the drivers work perfectly

best of all, its free
 
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