Reinstalling Windows Vista

[Draculusa]

Hi all
I am having some problems with my Sony Vaio and would like to reinstall Vista.
The problem is, I bought it at Best Buy and it came with Vista originally,
but it didn't have a Windows cd, like a lot of computers with pre-installed
software we buy at regular stores.
Some time ago I had XP and needed to reinstall and didn't have a cd either,
so i used HP's software to make a recovery DVD, that had all the stuff I
needed to reinstall from scratch, including all the pre-installed, less
important, software.
I can't find a way to create such a disk on Vista. Is this even doable?
There must be a way to be able to reinstall.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

Cristina Linha

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Contact Sony support for information on how to recover your installation.
There will most likely be a recovery partition from which Vista can be
re-installed..

 

[dennis@home]

Hi all
I am having some problems with my Sony Vaio and would like to reinstall
Vista.
The problem is, I bought it at Best Buy and it came with Vista originally,
but it didn't have a Windows cd, like a lot of computers with
pre-installed
software we buy at regular stores.
Some time ago I had XP and needed to reinstall and didn't have a cd
either,
so i used HP's software to make a recovery DVD, that had all the stuff I
needed to reinstall from scratch, including all the pre-installed, less
important, software.
I can't find a way to create such a disk on Vista. Is this even doable?
There must be a way to be able to reinstall.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

Cristina Linha

look for a program called vaio recovery wizard.

 

[PhilBiker]

I agree with Mike Hall - My e-machines computer came with Vista installed and
there was both an option to create a disaster recovery disk and a recovery
partition.

-Phil

 

[Aks]

look for a program called vaio recovery wizard.

Hi to all,

Well even me too having some problem like slowness,unexpected shut down
etc... so i would like to reinstall WVista but when i tried vaio recover disc
wizard to creat recovery midia kit it stops and shows the message "Recovery
disc kit wizard has stopped working"
If any one can help me in this matter it will be appreciable

 

[Mark]

Take your notebook back to the retailer where you bought it from, having best
buy, go to the "Geek Squad". However, since you bought it from them, you have
no power of reinstalling vista since it is an OEM, a type of software of an
O/S that manufacturing companies use that only allows you to install vista
once. Once vista is on your computer, there is nothing you can do. When you
send it back to the "Geek Squad" they're gonna ask $200 from you for another
OEM. Sure $200 is a rip off, but they gotta make a profit for just a simply
click of a mouse for an easy profit. Generally if you want to do it yourself,
newegg.com has a vista OEM for sale for around $150.