Sony VGX-XL201 manual Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Blencogo, a Club VAIO member who helped me over the initial hurdle of installing the operating system on a PC with a SATA disk drive and Viiv RAID configuration.

Thanks to Akash84, also a Club VAIO member for his thorough writing up of the process he went through to make a clean operating system install for his VAIO laptop, found here: http://www.club-vaio.sony-europe.com/clubvaio/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=36891. This thread helped me to understand how to make your VAIO operating system product key work with a regular operating system install CD.

Thanks to philfree, another Club VAIO member for his explanation of the KCAP.exe utility for extracting “.pac” files from the Application Recovery DVD, found here: http://www.club-vaio.sony-europe.com/clubvaio/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=37599.

Thanks to the anonymous author of this article: http://www.myplc.com/sony/sony_apps.htm which offers an alternative explanation to the above on how to extract application installation packages from the “.pac” files from the Application Recovery DVD, and for providing a download of the utility which makes this extraction possible.

Finally, a special thanks to Dink Nuhagic, for creating the superb nLite utility, and for making it free ;)