Vista - Sony VAIO

Hi

I just bought Sony Vaio notebook, and it came with windows vista, and
instead of giving me a copy of an OS, and it is on a seprate
partition.

I am wondering is it possible if I can striping clean this image, and
burn it on a DVD? Because I would like to dual boot with Windows XP.

Thanks in advance.

Some computer manufacturers, such as HP, also install a
recovery partition but offer the user the ability to make a backup
of the recovery files. You'll need to contact Sony support and ask
them this question and how to do it. Every PC manufacturer seems
to have a different procedure.

Keep in mind that if you do dual-boot and have a future need
to reinstall Vista, the factory recovery procedure will wipe-out
the dual-boot you created and reconfigure your hard drive exactly as
the day it left the factory.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance

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"tataniyacarter" wrote:

Hi

I just bought Sony Vaio notebook, and it came with windows vista, and
instead of giving me a copy of an OS, and it is on a seprate
partition.

I am wondering is it possible if I can striping clean this image, and
burn it on a DVD? Because I would like to dual boot with Windows XP.

Thanks in advance.

I haven't seen the new VAIOs yet with Vista preinstalled on them, but the XP ones allowed you to burn the OS onto a bootable disk once. Try and boot into your recovery partition and see if it allows you to make a disk. Sony, by law, is supposed to send everyone a disk with the operating system on it. I know that dell charges like $50 to send a disk then I tell them that it's illegal to charge for the disk because it's supposed to be included with EVERY computer. Escpially the end user computers. If it won't make a CD-R, call sony vaio support and demand that they send you a vista recovery disk for you computer at no charge. You must demand that it be sent for free or they'll weasel money for the disk that they were supposed to pack with your system in the first place. It really blows my mind why these OEM computer manufactuers aren't including a disk. Really how much does it cost to include a mass produced DVD of windows vista 25 cents?

So see if the recovery partition can make the disk or call sony and demand that they ship you a disk.

<tataniyacarter@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:fafbf704-e167-4053-a2ae-2d5c0ce23003@xxxxxxYou can put it on 2 DVD's but this is like a recovery disk you can use if
for some reason the partition won't work. But like the partition it will
wipe out everything. I don't know why they don't just include a Visda DVD so
you can reinstall it without effecting everything else you have on the PC.
I would just leave the partition alone those are just setup files. You can
still intall XP and make it the default operating system.

btw, I noticed that they don't even provide a booklet to get started. Sure,
I know what to do and that the manual is in Vaio Help but some newbie or
someone who just bought a PC for the first time might be confused.