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Clean install on Sony Vaio issues
Hello. I have a Sony Vaio VPCCW2S1E and have recently had to reset it to factory settings after (foolishly I know) downloading and running Norton Utilities without reading an instruction manual first. Anyway that's history now so I'll leave the embarrassing bit behind.
I have suspected the hard drive is on its last legs anyway, so I bought a new hard drive - one I've used before on other laptops - a fairly standard Seagate slim one. It's 500GB and the old one is only 320GB. I decided to use the recovery discs from the Vaio to install on the new hard-drive but they weren't accepted. They would install fully then a message would pop up saying there was an issue with the hard drive. So having googled a bit I think I've determined this is a common problem - Sony recovery discs won't install to a new hard drive.
So I'd like to do a clean install on the new hard drive. I've done a few clean installs on various computers before and on some older Sony Vaio's, but I'm wondering if I'll have the same issue with the hard drive. I have all the necessary drivers and utilities on a memory card, but the original installation included an Intel Matrix Storage program which I can't seem to find - although the Dell website seems to have it but says it was a pre-installed program.
I'm not sure if the laptop has RAID or not or if it needs this Intel program. In fact I don't really know what RAID is other than it could cause some issues. I'd happily leave the Intel program off (there is also an Intel driver to install which I have on my memory card) but I think it is something to do with the disc and RAID.
Just wondered if anyone knows if this laptop has RAID or not because I can't find anything about that, or whether it would be ok without the Intel Matrix Program.
Thanks!