Recent content by snowy

Hi, sorry if it's late, but feel I should leave an update to my case. Think I found the cause but not the solution. Have read somewhere that it only works for UEFI if you select UEFI DVD at the boot device options, otherwise it won't work. And I don't see this option, it seems Sony disabled...

It did not come with a downgrade DVD so I can only use a downloaded install or another DVD (if I had one)

Windows 8 pro has downgrade rights to windows 7 or vista, no need to buy another product key. And currently there are win 7 drivers for my model. That tutorial from sony tells to change UEFI mode to legacy, as I said previously when I did this the installation loads fine. But I want to know if...

I'm having a problem installing it for UEFI :( I've reset BIOS to default and disabled secure boot (could not find a CSM option though), booted from DVD, it loads files then freezes at the 'starting windows' screen. Already tried the following: waiting over half a hour reinserting the DVD...

Understood. So, just to be sure about the partitions, I only format C: and leave the others there?

ok, but can recovery discs be used to install windows 8 back after removing it?

It's a Vaio SVS151290X Then I could make a DVD with an ISO and it would work both for installing windows and recovering as well? The problem is I can only find ISO for retail version, last time I checked could not find for OEM. I'm not sure if Sony ships recovery disks, and even if they do...

So my laptop came with Windows 8 preinstalled and I'm going to downgrade to Windows 7, but if ever I want to go back to Win 8 in a future, I'll need an OEM installation media as my license is OEM, discs were not supplied, however there's a recovery partition on my drive. My question is: are...