I might have a windows 7 recovery disc that I made, if I find it I will send it to you, this should help restore your laptop, its from a advent laptop but will still do a restore for you as I have used on my old hp laptop as well, you will just need to re-activate windows.
if you want send me a PM with your name and address and I will post out today or tomorrow
You may already have it on a "D" drive, but you should have made it also on to CD when you first used the laptop
Thanks so much for your kind offer. I popped in to a PC World I was passing and a guy there told me that the recovery disc required is specific to the Sony Vaio model, and that nothing else will work properly. Apparently it's because the Vaio has extra bells & whistles and any other disc will reduce the functionality of my laptop. But I really appreciate you offering to send me your recovery disc.
Sorry to say the PC World guy is WRONG, Windows 7 is a factory product and when you re-install a operating system you also will need to download all the drivers from the Sony Support Site. Please note I have an advanced background in computers, I might even know better than the guys in PC World!
A Windows disc will recover Windows; the Sony disc will recover the Sony-specific stuff. If you recover Windows, you can restore the Sony stuff from the web, directly if Windows can get connected, or indirectly via a USB key or other connection if you can't.
However, as has been pointed out, most computers ship with a recovery partition these days, the recovery disc is invariably in addition to this. This would be presented at the initial stage of starting up, check your instructions if it's not obvious.
Sorry to say the PC World guy is WRONG, Windows 7 is a factory product and when you re-install a operating system you also will need to download all the drivers from the Sony Support Site. Please note I have an advanced background in computers, I might even know better than the guys in PC World!
your 'advanced background in computers' is not as advanced as you think!
Both you and the pc world guy are misleading. The PC world guy is right insofar as a recovery CD is generally product specific. You are correct insofar as a vanilla windows CD will work on any PC. However, a vanilla windows CD may lack critical drivers, such as network drivers preventing the OP from getting internet access and thus, downloading the additional required drivers.
The answer is -find a mate who can download the required drivers onto cd or usb. Then, if a vanilla windows CD is available, install and use the cd/usb stick to add the remaining drivers. Or bite the bullet and buy the hideously expensive recovery cd, or lastly, find somebody with the same model laptop who has a recovery cd and get a copy
Also, I very much doubt Power City will do much unless the hardware is damaged. operating system issues would be outside the scope of the warranty
I'm betting it wasn't a recovery CD but a retail Windows...Interesting comment for sure but I have actually re-installed windows 7 on a sony laptop at the start of this year from a 64 bit disc
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