I had to reformat my hard drive for a Sony Vaio Computor/ it didn't come with
a recovery cd & there are none available since I purchased in 2004/ I have
the windows product code on the back of my computor/ can I get a windows home
edition somewhere & use my code? do I have to purchase this?
Karen

Re: re-installing by Jaime

Jaime
Wed Jun 25 12:41:33 PDT 2008

Are you sure there is not a recovery partition on the hard drive? You
probably were suppose to create your own recovery discs if it didn't come
with any.

Otherwise you have a few options -

- Buy a copy of XP (not sure if you can do that retail anymore, might have
to be off ebay, craigs list, etc.)
- See if Sony sells the replacement discs through their support site
- Find someone else with a similar Sony PC who has recovery discs and borrow
them. Borrowing XP Home discs that are retail or from another system
probably won't work.

BTW, this is a Media Center group, in the future, you should post on a more
appropriate newsgroup (like a general XP Home forum).
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida



"Karen" <Karen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:09371AAC-C967-4F8B-99F1-C1E15C9892EE@microsoft.com...
> I had to reformat my hard drive for a Sony Vaio Computor/ it didn't come
> with
> a recovery cd & there are none available since I purchased in 2004/ I have
> the windows product code on the back of my computor/ can I get a windows
> home
> edition somewhere & use my code? do I have to purchase this?
> Karen


Re: re-installing by Karen

Karen
Wed Jun 25 13:56:00 PDT 2008

yes there was a partition but it was deleted without creating the discs/ Sony
no longer sells recovery discs for this model/I can send the whole computor
back for re-imaging for $99.99 / I guess that's a cheap enough lesson/ just
thought someone would have another idea
Thanks for your response though
Karen

"Jaime" wrote:

> Are you sure there is not a recovery partition on the hard drive? You
> probably were suppose to create your own recovery discs if it didn't come
> with any.
>
> Otherwise you have a few options -
>
> - Buy a copy of XP (not sure if you can do that retail anymore, might have
> to be off ebay, craigs list, etc.)
> - See if Sony sells the replacement discs through their support site
> - Find someone else with a similar Sony PC who has recovery discs and borrow
> them. Borrowing XP Home discs that are retail or from another system
> probably won't work.
>
> BTW, this is a Media Center group, in the future, you should post on a more
> appropriate newsgroup (like a general XP Home forum).
> --
> James
> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
>
>
>
> "Karen" <Karen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:09371AAC-C967-4F8B-99F1-C1E15C9892EE@microsoft.com...
> > I had to reformat my hard drive for a Sony Vaio Computor/ it didn't come
> > with
> > a recovery cd & there are none available since I purchased in 2004/ I have
> > the windows product code on the back of my computor/ can I get a windows
> > home
> > edition somewhere & use my code? do I have to purchase this?
> > Karen
>
>

Re: re-installing by Jaime

Jaime
Thu Jun 26 06:15:34 PDT 2008

Seems odd that they don't still sell the discs, it's not that old of a
system.

I don't know what system you have, but I browsed the Sony support site and
randomly found several 2004 era XP-based PC's that showed the recovery discs
(for $17.95) as repair parts that can be ordered. For example, this is the
recovery set for a VAIO RS600C PC:

http://servicesales.sel.sony.com/ecom/accessories/web/productSearch.do?searchOperation=modelSearch&modelNum=PCVRS600C&searchText=PCVRS600C

--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida


"Karen" <Karen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6FDB009D-DD87-4651-B415-0A7E3B8CC6F7@microsoft.com...
> yes there was a partition but it was deleted without creating the discs/
> Sony
> no longer sells recovery discs for this model/I can send the whole
> computor
> back for re-imaging for $99.99 / I guess that's a cheap enough lesson/
> just
> thought someone would have another idea
> Thanks for your response though
> Karen
>
> "Jaime" wrote:
>
>> Are you sure there is not a recovery partition on the hard drive? You
>> probably were suppose to create your own recovery discs if it didn't come
>> with any.
>>
>> Otherwise you have a few options -
>>
>> - Buy a copy of XP (not sure if you can do that retail anymore, might
>> have
>> to be off ebay, craigs list, etc.)
>> - See if Sony sells the replacement discs through their support site
>> - Find someone else with a similar Sony PC who has recovery discs and
>> borrow
>> them. Borrowing XP Home discs that are retail or from another system
>> probably won't work.
>>
>> BTW, this is a Media Center group, in the future, you should post on a
>> more
>> appropriate newsgroup (like a general XP Home forum).
>> --
>> James
>> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
>>
>>
>>
>> "Karen" <Karen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:09371AAC-C967-4F8B-99F1-C1E15C9892EE@microsoft.com...
>> > I had to reformat my hard drive for a Sony Vaio Computor/ it didn't
>> > come
>> > with
>> > a recovery cd & there are none available since I purchased in 2004/ I
>> > have
>> > the windows product code on the back of my computor/ can I get a
>> > windows
>> > home
>> > edition somewhere & use my code? do I have to purchase this?
>> > Karen
>>
>>

Re: re-installing by Karen

Karen
Thu Jun 26 07:38:01 PDT 2008

mine is pcv-rs400 series

"Jaime" wrote:

> Seems odd that they don't still sell the discs, it's not that old of a
> system.
>
> I don't know what system you have, but I browsed the Sony support site and
> randomly found several 2004 era XP-based PC's that showed the recovery discs
> (for $17.95) as repair parts that can be ordered. For example, this is the
> recovery set for a VAIO RS600C PC:
>
> http://servicesales.sel.sony.com/ecom/accessories/web/productSearch.do?searchOperation=modelSearch&modelNum=PCVRS600C&searchText=PCVRS600C
>
> --
> James
> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
>
>
> "Karen" <Karen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6FDB009D-DD87-4651-B415-0A7E3B8CC6F7@microsoft.com...
> > yes there was a partition but it was deleted without creating the discs/
> > Sony
> > no longer sells recovery discs for this model/I can send the whole
> > computor
> > back for re-imaging for $99.99 / I guess that's a cheap enough lesson/
> > just
> > thought someone would have another idea
> > Thanks for your response though
> > Karen
> >
> > "Jaime" wrote:
> >
> >> Are you sure there is not a recovery partition on the hard drive? You
> >> probably were suppose to create your own recovery discs if it didn't come
> >> with any.
> >>
> >> Otherwise you have a few options -
> >>
> >> - Buy a copy of XP (not sure if you can do that retail anymore, might
> >> have
> >> to be off ebay, craigs list, etc.)
> >> - See if Sony sells the replacement discs through their support site
> >> - Find someone else with a similar Sony PC who has recovery discs and
> >> borrow
> >> them. Borrowing XP Home discs that are retail or from another system
> >> probably won't work.
> >>
> >> BTW, this is a Media Center group, in the future, you should post on a
> >> more
> >> appropriate newsgroup (like a general XP Home forum).
> >> --
> >> James
> >> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Karen" <Karen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:09371AAC-C967-4F8B-99F1-C1E15C9892EE@microsoft.com...
> >> > I had to reformat my hard drive for a Sony Vaio Computor/ it didn't
> >> > come
> >> > with
> >> > a recovery cd & there are none available since I purchased in 2004/ I
> >> > have
> >> > the windows product code on the back of my computor/ can I get a
> >> > windows
> >> > home
> >> > edition somewhere & use my code? do I have to purchase this?
> >> > Karen
> >>
> >>
>