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How to install Windows XP (SP2) on a Sony Vaio PCG-TR5AP How to install Windows XP (SP2) on a Sony Vaio PCG-TR5AP If you should decide to wipe out your factory install of windows xp which comes with your laptop and re-install windows xp (because it's too slow or your system needs to be freshly installed), sony has made the process of doing a clean windows xp install harder than it needs to be. But hopefully this guide should be of some help. Sony puts on a 5 gig restore partition on the beginning of your hard drive from which you can use to wipe out your system and do a fresh factory install of your computer. From the bios boot screen, press F10. This will boot the vaio recovery partition and let you freshly install. On my computer, this partition would not boot correctly, complaining of a missing file.

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To reinstall windows yourself with your own windows cd, you will need the hardware drivers to run the basic functions of the computer, and your extra software which you paid for to use your built-in digital camera and extra features of the laptop. Unfortunately, the is missing the crucial video and sound drivers, as well as any of the bundled software. The machine uses the Intel 855GM chipset drivers, but the is not recognised. So where are these drivers and extra software? You need to use your Vaio Recovery Media Kit. You don't have this?

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Well sony doesn't ship these. You paid for the software, but you don't get any media with it. Instead, that 5 gig restore partition on the disk can create the recovery media (9 cds or 2 dvds). You cannot do this after re-installing or a crash, but have to do it with with your factory windows install. From the start bar, there is a sony recovery media kit creator program to create your cd set. I only tried making one set, and CD 1 was not burned properly. The recovery program is on CD 1.

I called up sony and had them ship me a recovery dvd set. Yes, they have all the dvds you need, they just don't give you them when you buy your $3,200 laptop. When I tried restoring the drivers and other software off the dvd set, I find out that I need to insert Disc 7 to continue. With only 2 DVDs, I tried both, but neither is accepted as disc 7.

I had disc 7 from my cd set I made, and that isn't accepted either. The OK button on the dialog box doesn't even do anything when you select it. It doesn't read the hard drive, dvd player, or anything. It is completely broken, and the recovery software is useless. So how did I get the drivers and software?

The cd and dvd set is boot-able, so I tried booting the dvd set to do the software custom re-install. For some unknown reason, the 'Application Recovery' option is grayed out, making a selective restore of the drivers and software impossible from the boot-able cds and dvds. Searching through the cds and dvds, there is a file called SONY1P0334217.PAC on dvd1 and on cd6. This is some kind of archive format used by sony. It can be extracted with the program. Run it with 'kcap source SONY1P0334217.PAC destination ' and it will pop up a window, exit, and extract the files in the background.

This will extract 34 or so directories with directory names such as '0329501.SNC'. Inside most of the directories is a 'setup.ini' file, which you can read with notepad.

It will have a field called 'AppName' which will tell you what software this is. From here you can now find the software to run the hotkeys of the laptop, Network Smart Capture for the camera, various libraries needed for the software, and a drivers directory with all the drivers for the laptop. If you have reached this far and you don't have the recovery cd or dvd set, you can get the file SONY1P0334217.PAC from your 5 gig recovery partition. The recovery partition is marked as type 12 (Compaq diagnostics) and windows won't mount it as your E: drive. But this is a regular ntfs windows partition and can be accessed by just changing the partition type back to type 7 (ntfs). I did this using a linux boot disk and running fdisk. Be sure not to mark this first 5 gig partition as boot-able, or it will try to boot the recovery partition, the same as hitting F10 on startup.

If you hit F10 on startup, it may mark the partition as boot-able, so you may need to run fdisk and unmark it as well to boot windows again. After running fdisk, you should see the E: drive now with the file SONY1P0334217.PAC ready to be extracted.

The E: drive will have a icon with the recovery screw driver. You may need to right click and select explore, or else it may autorun the drive and run the software restore program which doesn't work here either. Other software is on dvd1 and cd6, cd7, cd8, and cd9 as.EXE files that you can run and install. The dvd player and some of the trial software is like this.

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I had a few drivers show up as? In the device manager and I needed to add those by hand from the drivers directory that was extracted, but I don't remember which ones they where and I think they where all obvious what to do. 2004-10-08 (rogoyski at math.utexas.edu).

I have a Sony Vaio M VPCM121AX/L ten inch netbook which came with Windows 7 Starter. Wiped the hard drive with a disc scrubber. Pressed F2 and set BIOS to boot from external device. Hooked up LG portable drive and inserted Windows XP Home Edition CD (dated 2001, no Service Packs). Powered up, booted from CD, Windows Setup loaded all drivers, then I got this message: “A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you’ve seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check for viruses on your computer.

Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.

Run CHKDSK/ F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. Technical Information: STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7AC463C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)” I have a 250GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive.

I went to the Sony site and downloaded SATA driver for clean XP installation. I downloaded the zip file to a flash drive and unzipped the six files to the flash drive. I re-started Windows XP installation process and pressed F6 to let Windows Setup know I had 3rd party drivers that needed to be installed. After inserting the flash drive, Windows Setup said it did not detect floppy containing 3rd party drivers. The zip file I downloaded wasn’t for my model number.

Apparently Sony did not expect that anyone would want to downgrade this netbook to XP, so they don’t have a SATA driver for this particular model netbook. Any suggestions? WR2 said: I do have one more suggestion.

That's to slipstream SP3 into your Windows installation disc before you press ahead with installing XP on your 'Netbook. Hi WR2 and acerace: I am just now getting back to this project and thank you so very much for your replies. I suppose since I only have the one XP installation disc, if I create a bootable flash drive with that same disc, I’ll encounter this same problem, so I will follow the link to slipstreaming SP3 and try that. I’ll look again for a SATA driver to add to the slipstreaming (I’ve never tried slipstreaming before) but last night, I never could find a SATA driver for my model Sony Vaio netbook. I don’t know how generic SATA drivers are - the one I downloaded last night to the flash drive came from a link I got from another thread on this site: While on that page I tried their link, “See all applicable models and operating systems” but mine was not listed there either.

Do either of you know if the SATA driver has to be exactly model-specific? Again, I really appreciate your time and expertise.

WR2, Reading the information on that slipstreaming link was helpful to my understanding of the process, but the steps seemed terribly complicated for my skills level. On another thread discussing a similar problem, someone had suggested to that person that he could create a new installation disc using freeware here:. So I went to that site and realized that it accomplishes pretty much what slipstreaming does, except seemingly (at least for me) less complicated. Obviously on a different computer, I downloaded nLite and then copied my installation disc into a folder. I then opened nLite and directed it to that folder. I then chose the options for adding Service Packs and drivers. I went to the Microsoft site and was informed that SP3 would not work without SP1 or SP1a.

So I downloaded a copy of SP1a to another folder on my hard drive and then I downloaded a copy of SP3 to a different folder. Then I directed nLite to the SP1a folder.

At the end of the copying process, I got an error message that some or all files were not copied. I tried it again with the same result and then moved on to directing nLite to copy my SP3 folder. At the end of that process, it said that SP3 had been successfully integrated. I had not come back to this forum in the interim, so I missed your message that SP3 does contain the SATA drivers. So I next directed nLite to my flash drive to copy the SATA drivers which I had downloaded from Sony. The browse button on nLite brought up two different.inf files in that SATA driver folder - iaStor.inf and iaAHCI.inf.

However, clicking on either gave me the exact same two options: “Regular PIP” or something about “text OEM.” Choosing the latter brought up a long list of model numbers, so I just went with “Regular PIP.” Before I had wiped my Sony Vaio hard drive clean, I saved the driver folder to a flash drive so I inserted that drive next and directed nLite to copy the.inf file in the driver folders for Bluetooth, Ethernet, Graphics, Memory Card, Pointing/Mouse, Firmware Extensions Parser, and Wireless LAN. NLite then said to insert a CD to burn WinLite.ISO, which I did. After several minutes, the CD popped out and I put it my external CD drive on my Sony Vaio netbook and rebooted. I could hardly believe it when it actually got past that CHKDSK/F error screen and started formatting the hard drive and copying Windows files. I don’t know if the SATA driver I added from my flash drive or the ones in SP3 worked, but either way, everything worked out just great - I now have Windows XP with SP3 on my Sony Vaio netbook and so far, everything seems to work, including the left and right mouse buttons and pointing device. I haven’t yet tried to hook up to my wireless router because I want to install my anti-virus program before I get online.

Again, thank you for your time.