On Jun 29, 3:16 am, "M.I.5¾" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
> "liu" <spamfree...******.com> wrote in message
>
> > Also, I would not buy a SONY notebook again. They don't provide you
> > with an OS installation DVD. All the drivers, OS is located in a
> > hidden partition that takes up the space from user. If your HD is
> > broken, how can you recover? How about other manufacturers? Do they do
> > different?
>
> Don't blame Sony for this. This is down to Microsoft. The licensing of OEM
> versions of Vista require the OS reinstallation be placed on a separate
> partition of the hard disk. You cannot even make a backup CD (or DVD) of
....
Then why can Dell provide the DVD? Well, the purpose of this post is
to see if anyone has installed WinXP successfully on this SONY laptop
so I can do the same.

Thanks,