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Help - Sony Vaio re-install MS Home premium after SSD HD replacement.
Hi folks,
My dear old reliable Sony Vaio Hard disc is on it's way out. I bought a new 500 gig SSD from Best Buy and I need to replace the HD asap. I do have a 3 disc Sony Vaio recovery disc set that I made when I bought the Laptop originally. I just wanted to ask someone here if they would be so kind to give me some help on doing this job. My system is Windows 7 home premium 64bit. Intel I5 2.40GHz 4gb RAM. This laptop has been a champ for many years but I am now getting a warning that the HD is going to fail soon. I have copied all of my data to a external hard drive already. I would really appreciate if someone would list a step by step process for me that I can print out before I begin the hard drive replacement. My common sense tells me that I just need to shut down the PC, replace the HD and then boot from the 3 disc set that I labeled "Vaio Recovery Windows 7 64bit". I assume that the recovery disc's will format the new HD and do a fresh install of the original system but I really wanted to make sure.
P.S.
Since Sony Vaio's are no longer on the market I believe.... is it possible to just install Windows 7 Home premium without all of the additional Vaio software? I just thought I would toss this out there. I do have the product key on a sticker on the bottom of the laptop. The Vaio software only had one utility that I used which was the disc/registry defrag. As far as the other stuff it seems that the Vaio software really slows down the startup time. The original system also came with Norton but I just used the Norton removal tool and then installed Avast which I am very happy with. I paid for Avast premium with also their system cleanup utility and I have always loved it.
Sincerely,
Mike