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Sony Vaio reformat?

  • 19-10-2006 9:18am
    #1
    empirix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭


    Hey all, anybody know the deal with reformatting these laptops, i need to ghost a few different operating systems on mine and was wondering about drivers ansd such

    cheers


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  • #2
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    There is a Sony partition hidden that stores drivers on some models. Remove it and if you need to reinstall the drivers, Sony will charge you 40 quid to send it out to you.

    That is on US models. I'm not sure about Irish (EU) laws on them doing that but you should have a good luck for this partition which won't show up in some partition programmes and defragmenters (probably just windows try gparted).

    If you want to know if all your hardware is supported, Ubuntu have a wiki for it at http://wiki.ubuntu.com and I'm sure at this stage most other distro's do too.


  • #3
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    on the newer model vaios, there is a hidden partition that restores the hard drive if windows crashes, you can create the recovery cds/dvd if you want to format/replace the drive, though afaik the sony reinstall does an auto-fdisk and format of the drives during recovery, might not be as configurable as a standard windows install


  • #4
    bendaco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭bendaco


    Hitting the F10 key when the vaio logo first comes up will give you various recovery options(Full HD format & recovery to factory settings, reformating HD, reinstalling windows etc and sometimes other options)

    Have a look in the programs menu for Vaio recovery tools - one of the options is to create a recovery disc set (2 DVDs) one is system (all the drivers & windows) and one is applications (bundled software)

    Obviously these discs are model specific - i've heard that they are sometimes specific to the particular machine

    hope this helps


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