topic windows 8 instalation in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-8-instalation/m-p/552131#M29 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have bought a Vaio VPCF23Z1E/B1 just 3 months ago. Sony does not provide a CD for upgrading to Windows 8. In the support there are drivers for windows 8, but I do not find any guide how to do the update of the operating system, i.e, step-by-step actions to preform a succesfull update.</P><P>Can somebody help me on that?</P><P>Thank you</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:21:30 GMT aruano 2012-11-22T21:21:30Z windows 8 instalation https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-8-instalation/m-p/552131#M29 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have bought a Vaio VPCF23Z1E/B1 just 3 months ago. Sony does not provide a CD for upgrading to Windows 8. In the support there are drivers for windows 8, but I do not find any guide how to do the update of the operating system, i.e, step-by-step actions to preform a succesfull update.</P><P>Can somebody help me on that?</P><P>Thank you</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:21:30 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-8-instalation/m-p/552131#M29 aruano 2012-11-22T21:21:30Z Re: windows 8 instalation https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-8-instalation/m-p/552132#M30 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi aruano and welcome.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">There is no guide available.&nbsp; We have asked for some guidance from Sony - so I would wait until we are sure.<BR /></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">The only thing we know is that you must make an Upgrade (Migration) installation and choose to “Keep Windows settings, personal files, and apps.”&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Many of the drivers supplied by Sony are only updates and require the original W7 versions to be still installed so a 'clean install' is unlikely to work successfully.<BR /></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">You probably have to run the Unified Uninstaller Tool to remove incompatible programs, but we need some guidance as to what this actually does.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">I would wait until we know more.<BR /></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.no/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:02:01 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/windows-8-instalation/m-p/552132#M30 Blencogo 2012-11-23T21:02:01Z