xp home oem-disk ???

[steppie]

Hi,

When i bought my vaio (pcg-k315m) sony pre-installed xp home sp2. They told me to create the 2 "recovery" disks. but now i want to format my vaio and install win2000. Can you get the original oem-cd for XP from sony, in case I want to reinstall Xp on my viao. I know the setup-files are somewhere hidden on my hdd, but where?? Anyone knows??
Thanks.
Steppie

[rich912]

The files are on a hidden partition, but if you have created the recovery disks for your original operating system (XP Home) these will contain the operating system should you wish to revert to `as delivered¿.
A restore using these disks formats the C drive and returns your computer to `as delivered¿.

As long a you do not delete the hidden partition (only format the C drive) your recovery files will always be there but to be safe make more than one copy of the recovery disks.

[steppie]

thats my point...i don't want my pc to be "as delivered" when i reinstall. It had a lot of rubbish programs on it, so i want to have a clean install...just XP without the rubbish that was already on my vaio. where can i find/acces this hidden partition?

[kee-lo_]

Thats what Sony haven't understood, they don't give you choice over the software.

The drivers are in the drivers folder on the DVD