topic Windows 7 Reinstallation - PCG61611M in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-7-reinstallation-pcg61611m/m-p/656266#M13378 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Chris,</SPAN><BR /></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">I suspect that the new drive is probably an Advanced Format drive – i.e. having 4,096-byte structure as opposed to the original drive that would have been 512-byte.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Vaio recovery media will not work on the new AF drives as they would have been created before the advent of this technology, but a retail or standard copy of Windows will be AF aware – hence the problem you are experiencing.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">As far as I am aware there is no way around this other than to change the drive for a 512-byte structure or to install a retail copy of Windows and then download and install utilities and drivers from the Sony Support site – you will lose most of the Sony pre-installed software as this is not available to download.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Another possibility is that your recovery disks are corrupt or need cleaning.<BR /></SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Rich</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><BR /></P><P></P><P>Message was edited by: rich912</P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:11:37 GMT rich912 2013-02-19T16:11:37Z Windows 7 Reinstallation - PCG61611M https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-7-reinstallation-pcg61611m/m-p/656265#M13377 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi I have a viao in which I have i just replaced the HDD. I can boot it with the existing copy of windows 7 (From the previous HP laptop ) but I cannot get it to read the windows 7 disk media although I know the optical drive is working correctly Any ideas?</P><P></P><P>rgds</P><P></P><P>Chris </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:01:34 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-7-reinstallation-pcg61611m/m-p/656265#M13377 chris_legrand 2013-02-19T12:01:34Z Windows 7 Reinstallation - PCG61611M https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-7-reinstallation-pcg61611m/m-p/656266#M13378 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Chris,</SPAN><BR /></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">I suspect that the new drive is probably an Advanced Format drive – i.e. having 4,096-byte structure as opposed to the original drive that would have been 512-byte.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Vaio recovery media will not work on the new AF drives as they would have been created before the advent of this technology, but a retail or standard copy of Windows will be AF aware – hence the problem you are experiencing.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">As far as I am aware there is no way around this other than to change the drive for a 512-byte structure or to install a retail copy of Windows and then download and install utilities and drivers from the Sony Support site – you will lose most of the Sony pre-installed software as this is not available to download.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Another possibility is that your recovery disks are corrupt or need cleaning.<BR /></SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;" style="font-size: 12pt;">Rich</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><BR /></P><P></P><P>Message was edited by: rich912</P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:11:37 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-7-reinstallation-pcg61611m/m-p/656266#M13378 rich912 2013-02-19T16:11:37Z