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    Vaio Software

    Hi all,

    I just bought a Vaio.

    Formatted the thing to remove the epic amounts of bloatware that came with it.

    I created all the recovery disks before I did it though :-)

    I wanted to reinstall some of the programs that came with the Vaio.

    Alas since it came with Win 7 Home Edition x64 and I popped Win 7 Ultimate x64 the darn disks wont work.

    I did pop the fisrt didk in prior to format and I could select any program I wished to install from a rather long list of pre installed ones.

    So my question is, these disks have to be doing a reg check to see what version of OS that I am running.

    So does anyone have an idea where it is looking or how to get round it.

    All help would be greatly appreciated.

    Ed

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    Re: Vaio Software

    Is the x64 Ultimate disk an upgrade disk?
    If that's the case I've found it won't boot to that disk.....

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    Re: Vaio Software

    It came preinstalled with home edition x64, I am using Ultimate from our MSDN licences from work as I'll be using the laptop to work from home.

    I would have understood if I had gone to say Vista or XP or even a x86 OS for the discs not to work but just to a different flavor of the same OS seems rather harsh !

    Ed

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    Re: Vaio Software

    Have you just tried downloading the apps from the sony website?

    Worked for me.
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