Problems with instillation

[Guest tomholmes]

Hey

I just bought a sony vaio VGN-FZ31Z laptop that had home preium installed which is not what I wanted. So i decided to replace it with x64 bit Ultimate, But most of the utilites dont work which I found out after I had installed it.

So I bought 32bit ultimate and went through the installation procees..

It asked which make such as:

IBM

Sony

Toshiba e.t.c

Selected sony naturally, and I got the following error after trying to install:

Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for instillation are avilable, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070017

[cluberti]

Retail versions of Windows don't ask for make and model, and neither do OEM discs (especially not multiple OEM vendor queries like this) - OEM discs are made for a specific vendor (and quite often, a specific model). Also, I know one of the vendors in your list *doesn't provide* OEM discs (only a recovery partition). Taking all that into consideration, two things are quite obvious - one, that you're using a warez copy of Vista Ultimate (specifically, the 18 in 1 version found easily on the 'net), and two that you failed to read rule 1.a for comprehension (you know, the first of the rules you agreed to when you signed up for the forums?). Say goodbye.

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