my Sony VAIO has a bluray drive but won't play them after hard drive switch

pdukeii

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I took my Sony VAIO vpcea46fm to get the hard drive replaced. Well when I got it back it won't play blurays. I guess they had put the wrong driver in it because it only plays CDs and DVDs. So any help would be great, or should I just send the 55 dollars to siny and get a restore disc. Please help. Thanks.
 
A little research indicates that your Sony laptop should have been bundled with WinDVD BD which should be capable of playing Blu-Rays. If it is installed, then try updating the drivers for it in the following link. The updates are in the WinDVD Software section towards the bottom of the page.

http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=VPCEA46FMW&template_id=1&region_id=1&tab=download#/downloadTab


If WinDVD is not installed then the above link will not really help you since there are only links to software updates and not the actual software itself. Below is a link to Free Smith Video Player which supposedly is a free Blu-Ray player program. I never used it since I don't have a Blu-Ray drive and I prefer using Media Player Classic - Home Cinema to playback my videos.

http://www.any-video-converter.com/freesmith-video-player/free-blu-ray-player.php