Can I copy VAIO restore CD's to drive partition and instal..

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Hi Steve -

I don't think this will work. The Restore CD set needs to be able to boot
the system in order to run. If your laptop has a BIOS option for network
boot (some do), you may be able to copy your Restore CD set to the network
and run it from there.

As far as I know, Sony's BIOS' only support their own optical drives being
bootable with the Restore CD's.

Jef


"Steve Haubner" <shaubner@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Hi-- I just got a used Sony SRX87 with an external DVD drive. I'd
| like to resell the DVD drive since I can install all my software via
| WLAN and have no need for it. That is except for a possible future
| need to use the RESTORE cdrom's. Since this is a SONY, only their
| external drive will work.
|
| My question: Has anyone copied the restore cdrom images to a separate
| partition and installed from there? I used to do this with a Progear
| tablet pc with Win XP and it worked great. My fears are that the
| restore application only looks for the optical drive and can't be
| redirected, and/or that the restore process rewrites a drive
| image--wiping out the mbr and the "restore" partition I've created.
|
| Any info would be greatly appreciated.