Dec 11 2008, 04:06 PM
QUOTE(koochy_rat @ Dec 10 2008, 12:23 AM)
Got my new SR25 black yesterday 
pc fair promo with free bluetooth laser mouse, bag, dvd player, towel and ms office home & student. Damn worth it considering that Sony products are always overpriced. Useless Sony bloatware was a put off though 
So I spent hours trying out ways to do a semi clean reinstall only to find out that existing methods based on the SZ series do not work since the recovery software is different now. Here's my technique, based partly on http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4180371
1) Copy c:\Program Files\Sony\Vaio Recovery out to a thumbdrive
2) Run Vaio Recovery and choose Restore C: drive
3) The system will reboot and enter recovery mode
4) Wait until the progress bar completes
5) The system will reboot again and startup Vista
6) Once you see the Windows logo, get ready!
7) A window will appear on the top left corner showing Installing VAIO Recovery or similar. QUICKLY do Ctrl-Alt-Del, start Task Manager, go to Processes tab and KILL VAIORecv.exe!
8) If done properly, Vista should resume its normal install and setup
9) Once Vista is ready, copy the Vaio Recovery from your thumbdrive back to the hard disk and run it
10) Choose Reinstall Programs and Drivers and install the Intel Wireless driver and Vaio Mode Switch (to get the special buttons working). And anything else you find useful (personally I think the rest are unnecessary)
Congratulations, you now have a slimmed down install
With all necessary drivers and no crappy bloatware. Runs way faster. In case you screw up the steps and Vista can't start, no worries just hold down F10 during boot and it will start recovery mode again.
Im also bought a SR yesterday. Sony gave a lot of freebies. pc fair promo with free bluetooth laser mouse, bag, dvd player, towel and ms office home & student. Damn worth it considering that Sony products are always overpriced. Useless Sony bloatware was a put off though So I spent hours trying out ways to do a semi clean reinstall only to find out that existing methods based on the SZ series do not work since the recovery software is different now. Here's my technique, based partly on http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=41803711) Copy c:\Program Files\Sony\Vaio Recovery out to a thumbdrive
2) Run Vaio Recovery and choose Restore C: drive
3) The system will reboot and enter recovery mode
4) Wait until the progress bar completes
5) The system will reboot again and startup Vista
6) Once you see the Windows logo, get ready!
7) A window will appear on the top left corner showing Installing VAIO Recovery or similar. QUICKLY do Ctrl-Alt-Del, start Task Manager, go to Processes tab and KILL VAIORecv.exe!
8) If done properly, Vista should resume its normal install and setup
9) Once Vista is ready, copy the Vaio Recovery from your thumbdrive back to the hard disk and run it
10) Choose Reinstall Programs and Drivers and install the Intel Wireless driver and Vaio Mode Switch (to get the special buttons working). And anything else you find useful (personally I think the rest are unnecessary)
Congratulations, you now have a slimmed down install
With all necessary drivers and no crappy bloatware. Runs way faster. In case you screw up the steps and Vista can't start, no worries just hold down F10 during boot and it will start recovery mode again.
Same like u! Total 3 paper bags. 2 big and 1 small.
One of the big bag loaded by SR another 1 big and 1 small are freebies. HEHE
Sony SR
Freebie
My SR is ready to use after spent half an hour to setup...
Yeah!!! I Love Vaio!!
This post has been edited by jansennlee: Dec 11 2008, 04:17 PM
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