I dislike Sony, I never used to, but started to since they decided to blather on about the PS2 having an "emotion engine" which turned out to be a processor.
Then there was the fact that they had a great product in the minidisc and managed to destroy it with greed - I still think the minidisc was the true successor to teh floppy disk, and could have been a real competitor to the CD - read and write acccess built in to your pc? Oh yes please. Would have rocked - but it was Sony and they did it too late and too expensive.
Now there's the PS3, which is a marketing joke - the price was wrong, the timing was late, the pads don't have rumble - oh wait a second, they do! Quick add motion sensing on to the pads. My word what a shambles.
But now - Sony have got personal. And probably got me in trouble.
My little brother has a VAIO. Decent spec, nice machine. Runs Vista. Runs like poo.
I'll format it and put XP on it.
What? You don't have any files to save - ok I'll just wipe it now.
*Wiped*
Rule 1) ALWAYS take adaquate backups.
I didn't in this case because really, how difficult is it to install XP?
Answer. Very.
Xp doesn't recognise the Hdd. At all.
I think it's a SCSI drive, and I search and search but cannot find the driver.
I then find out there's Copywrited Sony Files which enable you to install an OS on the machine.
They're on the recovery CDS (don't have.) And they were on a partition of the drive (just wiped).
So I jump on the Sony site to download said tools.
You can't.
You have to buy a new CD - £30.
What a complete crock, money isn't the problem here, but there's NO way I'm paying for it. No chance.
Thanks Sony - you've ruined my January.


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