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fevos

hi guys

i install a clean windows 7 on my vaio CS , now i want to recovery from the recovery disk after i run the first recovery disk then it ask me to enter the second recovery disk and when i insert the second recovery disk the program don't response and wont recognize the DVD .

if anyone could help me i'll be appreciated ..
Thanks in advance .

Thalamus.

Hi fevos,

welcome to Club VAIO..

You're Vaio has a hidden HDD recovery partition so as long as it has not been deleted during the Windows 7 instalation you should be able to recover your Vaio back to the original installed OS and programs just as it was when you first used your Vaio.

To do this Start your Vaio and when you see the Vaio logo screen press F10 repeatedly this normally starts the recovery process..

fevos

thanks for the fast reply but when i try to recover the programs , it also format the C: driver and install Vista with the drivers , how could i install drivers and vaio programs without installing Vista .. and since now im in vista after the recovery there's option in windowes 7 CD called upgrade if i did that will it recover the Vaio drivers and programs .. thanks

Thalamus.

Hi fevos,

did you try starting your Vaio and when you see the Vaio logo screen press F10 repeatedly to see if the this starts the recovery process..

fevos

yes i tried and that format the C: drive and install vista with the driver i want only install drivers on windowes 7 ..

Thalamus.

Hi fevos,

I think I need to clarify exactly what you want to do, as I thought from your original post that you had installed Windows 7 and wanted to restore Vista, is this not the case.?

fevos

i wanted to just install driver and programs on the windows 7 without going back to vista .
now after i did restore recovery it format the c: drive and install vista .
now i run vista after the restore i need to go back to windows 7 , so i heard there's 2 option clean install and upgrade to windows 7 , i want to chose the one that i could have my driver and sony programs in windowes 7 , but as i wrote before there's a problem in recovery DVD but i still have the hidden Drive with recovey in it ...
thanks for following the post with me

robinnavamanie

If you have done a clean install (opposed to an upgrade), then there is no way you can re-install the drivers and other software from your recovery DVDs or from the disk. I bought the Windows 7 full version but after realising the problems I am going to have, I went and bought an upgrade version which kept all the drivers and other programs which came with the Vaio.

Robin

Thalamus.

i want to chose the one that i could have my driver and sony programs in windowes 7

Hi fevos,

If you choose to upgrade, instead of doing a clean install, Vista to Windows 7 then you should still be able to use the pre-installed applications etc..