I deleted windows - what now?

[Guest]

I dropped my Xony Vaio, went to Best Buy, asked them what to do - they said
uninstall office, then unistall windows, then reinstall everything. Well,
GREAT! Except - my computer came with Windows XP Home installed, so I don't
have any disks? Do you have any suggestions?

 

[R. McCarty]

Sorry you dropped the Vaio - What kind of problem/issues are you
having. BestBuy is only a store. The advice to uninstall & re-install
is the Universal catch-all answer for any PC problem. It's value is 0%.
Is it under warranty ? - if so call Sony

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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be addressed directly to Sony:
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Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I dropped my Xony Vaio, went to Best Buy, asked them what to do - they said
| uninstall office, then unistall windows, then reinstall everything. Well,
| GREAT! Except - my computer came with Windows XP Home installed, so I don't
| have any disks? Do you have any suggestions?

 

[Road Runner]

Look at your manual in how to reinstall the operating system , because your
is preinstall it should have the option to do just that if you ever need to
do so ... I would call Sony and ask if they provide a product recovery cd
disc ( operating system ) , Or how you can make a copy of the operating
system onto a disc ...

 

[Leythos]

I dropped my Xony Vaio, went to Best Buy, asked them what to do - they said
uninstall office, then unistall windows, then reinstall everything. Well,
GREAT! Except - my computer came with Windows XP Home installed, so I don't
have any disks? Do you have any suggestions?

When I bought a VAIO it came with 5 CD's - they are used to restore the
machine to it's AS Shipped State. Look for them, you should have them.

 

[Guest]

If you start up the computer and hit the f10 key you will be able to boot
from a hidden partition that sony has in there for just such an emergency. If
you try and install a store bought version of WINXP you will have a hard time
getting things up and running as the sony computer needs a bunch of sony
drivers to get operational. including the onboard eternet card...so you wont
be able to get online to download the drivers that you need..bah..i just went
through all of this...