Ive upgraded my xp home edition sony vaio pcv-v1/G with windows vista home premium ....how do i get it back to xp it wont let me load xp back onto it since i upgraded thanks

You can download THIS software. SONY DCR-DVD708 driver will also apply to Vista, especially:

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate 64-bit Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic 64-bit
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business 64-bit
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium

I hope I helped you!

You can find the original Windows XP drivers from Sony's Download page here : http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/info/info.aspx?l=en_GB&url=Vaio/Original/V1_Drivers.zip&m=PCV-V1_G&ip=Preinstalled_Drivers.htm
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If it is running Windows XP Home Edition (Version 2002) it is not 64 bit it is 32bit. 64 bit only came in Windows XP PRO 64bit and Vista 64bit and Windows7 64bit

With your XP disk ready, go online to http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=PCVV100G

all the drivers and information is there.
Hope that helps.

if your system came with vista originally the issue would be is you would need to know what version of vista you have on your system, the version makes the difference if you have vista home premium then your windows 7 should be a win7 Home premium as well, because if you are upgrading vista using your win7 disc and your windows version are different for example you have vista Home premium and your win7 is win7 ultimate and you do an upgrade the problem will be your product key,

but if you have a retail version of win7 and you are installing it on your laptop Vaio insert the disc in the DVD-drive win7 needs a DVD reader to be able to install win7 if you have a cd-rom it wont work, then turn the laptop off power it back up keep on tapping f12 it should bring you a boot menu, select ODD or which ever is your dvd drive then press enter then enter again if it says on the screen press any key to boot to CD, this should begin win7 installation on the screen saying windows is loading files the so on ans so fort ^_^ this will over write everything in vista but in win7 it will still create a windows.old folder from vista only from the my documents folder my picture and my music and my video and desktop Items but remember application icons will not work on win7 you may need to reinstall the program again for it to work on win7 and yeah make sure that you choose custom/advance in the selection screen do no select upgrade unless you vista and win7 are the same version eg. Vista Home premium / Win7 Home premium ^_^

Vista Home premium drivers will work perfectly with Windows Vista Ultimate. When installing Vaio event service and Vaio Control center make sure that you run setup file as administrator. Right-click the setup file and select option "run as administrator". By reinstalling utilities this way they will work perfectly well

U need to download the raid drivers and put them onto a floppy drive .. during loading of XP install u press a key to load Raid or Scussi drivers .. hit that, load the driver u put onto floppy and it shud then find it

Adam,

The sony VAIO Pcv-j200 only runs with Windows 2000, windows Me and windows xp. The current operating system Vista on your computer right now will work but some of the features of it may not. The link below shows all the drivers for your unit for diffent operating systems (not vista). What you can try to do is to download the audio driver for windows xp


http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=PCVJ200&LOC=3