Update on my computer..w. help needed.

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ak_hitman_47

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Alright my friend has a Dell and Im sorry but Im not a Dell guy. Anyways he had a disc called Operating System: Reninstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition. Alright I installed it and it worked fine and now I have Windows Home edition on my computer but its a Dell now. Ok now I want to get it back to a Sony because there are features that my Sony came with taht I want back on my computer. So how do I go about doing this? I also put in my Startup Recovery Disc and it said restart your computer and this disc will start automatically so I did and it did start automatically and it said chose your os and then it said for more options press F8 and theres options like Safe Mode, ect. I also tried to uninstall this os that I installed but it says I have to register first. Is there Any way of getting around this? I dont really want to register befcause I dont want to cause any problems. I also didnt have to enter a cd key when I installed this disc. Any suggestions on getting my computer back to a Sony Vaio would be helpful. Thanks.
 
Praetor

Praetor

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Ok you dont need to be bumping after a bunch of hours :)

Ok now I want to get it back to a Sony because there are features that my Sony came with taht I want back on my computer. So how do I go about doing this
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By using the Sony equivalent of the Dell Recovery CD.

this disc will start automatically so I did and it did start automatically and it said chose your os and then it said for more options press F8 and theres options like Safe Mode
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In your BIOS you'll have to set the optical drives to boot up as a higher priority than the HDD.
 
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Dsk954

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what are you asking? Are you trying to use a dell OS disk that your buddy has to instal xp home on your computer? Im not sure but I think the OS recovery disk just deletes everything that you added on to your computer from a small partision on the HD? Im pretty sure you cant instal an OS from a recovery disk, you will need to find a copy of the windows CD. If you want to not activate windows there are many cracks that get around it but make sure you have spyware/virus blocker up and running. Am I allowed to post links to cracks for windows on this board?
 
Super_Nova

Super_Nova

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Well you can use private messages. But you can't post them openly. And it would be difficult to ask for such a private message without speaking of it openly in the public forum. So I suppose it would be best to keep the topic legal on here.
 
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