Dell vista disc use on sony Vaio

[fabryuk]

Currently owns a dell xps m1330 which comes with dell vista oem dvd. I believe it is a modify version of vista oem.

Also have a vaio z series which does not come with a vista dvd, and I want to do a clean installation. Is there a way to change the dell disc (using vlite) so to use it for vaio clean installation? I believe it is possible as I do own the product key

Thks. Plse guide me step by step as I am not very good 'at vlite

Edited September 28, 2008 by fabryuk

[fabryuk]

Anyone?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I am not sure you could clean the disk to work well enough in your VIAO laptop.

They REALLY, REALLY make those OEM disks hardware sensitive... Hence why they only work on Dell and not Sony.

BUT all opinions aside, legally you can't do it as OEM software is tied to the hardware (The Dell PC) and in the EULA of the OS (Which you agreed to when you started\installed Windows for the first time, whether you had seen it or not ) it says that the Windows install is tied to the hardware.

So in effect, basically, YOU don't own the OEM copy. Your Dell PC does. I am sorry but that is the plain old sorry MS fact of it.

Quote from an actual MS email about the OEM EULA:

There is no difference between pre installed OEM operating system software and OEM operating system software acquired after the purchase of a PC. Regardless, the OEM operating system must remain with the device that retains the motherboard.

Edited September 29, 2008 by Kelsenellenelvian

[fabryuk]

Well guess I have to buy anytime upgrade disc from ebay then

I think the issue here is I own 2 license key for vista, so technically I own 2 vista, but Vaio does not come with a oem disc..... and quote above can either apply for the vista key or the physical disc? so legally I am not entirely wrong also

[Kelsenellenelvian]

How old is your VAIO? Did you know you can usually call and get replacement media from the vendor (Sony in this case) and get replacement media for really super cheap?

I know exactly where you are coming from man, really I do. Microsoft really likes to bleeeep, bleeeep us about the OS's huh?

You HAVE the license for your VAIO but no disk right? Did you delete the recovery partition or are you wanting too delete it and starting fresh?

I dunno what to tell you except that Dell disk is really not going to work on the Sony. They are tied to BIOS checksums and all sorts of weird crud.

Sorry for the bit of confusion I thought 1 license was in question here.

Edited September 29, 2008 by Kelsenellenelvian

[fabryuk]

I owned 2 notebooks (1 for work, 1 for personal use), The new vaio z series, which did not come with any disc. It does have the recovery partition, of which I can make a recovery disc. But it fills with all the sony bloatware....hence I want to use the dell (m1330) vista recovery disc to install it on my sony vaio, as I want to do a vista clean install. I can always use the vista key on my vaio to activate my vaio

Searching on this forum , I found out that the dell vista installation disc does have slight modification done to the vista dvd. So I am asking whtether I can modify the dell oem vista disc to original vista using vlite..