I have a couple of older laptops that have been given to me and am trying to make them work as I cannot afford a new one. My HP display is acting up so I made a disk image of the hard drive and installed it on my Sony Vaio VPCEB23FM. It did work OK, but now my Sony is quirky...the wireless isn't working, the touchpad does work but it is quirky too. It is running Windows 7 Home Premium. My question is, did I really screw up doing this? Is the system going to be ok now that it doesn't have the Sony drivers? I did consider resetting it to factory settings and transferring everything the hard way but I cannot get the system to read the recovery drive. I don't know if the disk image I used touched the recovery drive or not. I don't have the recovery disks,,,Sony wants 60 bucks for them. I did make a boot disk but that won't get me into the recovery drive. Would you just leave it and see what happens? or should I continue to try to get it recovered back to the original state? I am sorry this is so long of a post but I was trying to explain what I did. As you have probably figured out by now, I don't know a whole lot about computers, just enough to get myself into trouble. I should have made a disk image of the sony before I started. Thanks for your help.
Installed HP Disk Image on Sony Vaio Laptop
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Tom Tancredi
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Yes if you reimaged the SONY from the HP then you WIPED the ENTIRE drive with the HP Disk Image.
YES you need for fork over $60 to Sony for the easiest and least RISK way to get the Sony back to FACTORY images.
Now there is one more thing to add to this, you are on BORROWED TIME (30 Days). The LICENSED version of Windows from HP is OEM, meaning it is ONLY allowed on the HP system you got it from ONLY, it can't 'move' to the SONY without a proper LICENSE that matches that OS version. SO for example if the HP is W7Home Premium, BUT your Sony 'sticker' says W7Home edition, it won't work on that HP copy of Windows.
What normally happens is Windows A) disables many features for example the DVD can only use CDs, B) your background changes to include your using a UNLICENSED copy of Winows C) constant nags to validate Windows D) NO UPDATES will install / fix the image because 'it is unlicensed' etc.
So in essence, at this point your SAVING $110, as buying 'Windows' at your local Walmart/BestBuy is $170.
YES you need for fork over $60 to Sony for the easiest and least RISK way to get the Sony back to FACTORY images.
Now there is one more thing to add to this, you are on BORROWED TIME (30 Days). The LICENSED version of Windows from HP is OEM, meaning it is ONLY allowed on the HP system you got it from ONLY, it can't 'move' to the SONY without a proper LICENSE that matches that OS version. SO for example if the HP is W7Home Premium, BUT your Sony 'sticker' says W7Home edition, it won't work on that HP copy of Windows.
What normally happens is Windows A) disables many features for example the DVD can only use CDs, B) your background changes to include your using a UNLICENSED copy of Winows C) constant nags to validate Windows D) NO UPDATES will install / fix the image because 'it is unlicensed' etc.
So in essence, at this point your SAVING $110, as buying 'Windows' at your local Walmart/BestBuy is $170.
I screwed up didn't I? Thank you for the information, a guess I will chalk it up to a lesson learned! I do appreciate your quick response. The HP copy of windows is W7Home Premium and so is the sony...does that make any difference to the 30 days?
Tom Tancredi
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Only if you changed the KEY and re-activated. Normally Windows OEM won't allow you to do half what you did, which it may refuse to re-activate with the Sony key anyway as the 'license' was with HP NOT Sony, and require ANYWAY an complete reinstall from scratch of Windows and everything else.
I know everyone with XP experiences tries all these 'old tricks' but forget ANYTHING about XP you know when dealing with Vista/7/8/8.1/8.1U , they don't work for many technical behind the scene reasons and only 'screw it up' in the process. I know I found out the hardware on much of this. Just take Vista Forward as a new operating system you need to 'learn all over'.
I know everyone with XP experiences tries all these 'old tricks' but forget ANYTHING about XP you know when dealing with Vista/7/8/8.1/8.1U , they don't work for many technical behind the scene reasons and only 'screw it up' in the process. I know I found out the hardware on much of this. Just take Vista Forward as a new operating system you need to 'learn all over'.
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