Thanks everyone for lots of useful information. I have eventually got my Sony Vaio VGN-T2XP working with windows 7. I had trouble using the basic procedure outlined by Frustrated (
post 42) above. However, adding two ingredients into the mix worked for me:
1) Follow
Arathranar's (post 74) to disable the start up screen which forces a certain resolution and default graphics
drivers ("running msconfig and checking Boot->OS boot information. Instead of the animation you now get text showing
driver loads and the 0x7E STOP blue screen")
2) For some reason the "bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS" command seems a bit unreliable. Another way of disabling these checks is "Use gpedit.msc and navigate to: User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System ->
Driver Installation and enable the "Code signing for
drivers" and then choose "Ignore"." For more details see
here.
Very pleased, this will give another lease of life to my laptop.