Slightly Off-topic but not way off?

[Guest ManyBeers]

I have a Sony Vaio PCGFXA 47 notebook with WindowsXP sp3. The computer came

with Recovery cds and not a WindowsXP cd. So there was no Recovery Console

originally with my computer. However about 6 months ago I was at this website

http://www.aumha.org/ and there was a procedure in a thread outlining the

steps to installing the Recovery Console on any WindowsXP computer. I

followed the procedure and I now have the Recovery Console listed as a boot

option on my Boot.ini file.

A few weeks ago i deleted Screenblast Sounforge&Acid;

Photoshop Elements; and WinDVD from their default install locations on my

C:\drive so I could make a smaller image to burn. These programs are OEM to

my computer. Anyways after burning the image i wanted to reinstall those

programs so I put in the Application Recovery cd to do so but was given the

message "This application is not designed to run on this computer". So I

could not install the programs. My question is this: Did my installing either

SP3 or The Recovery Console cause this effect?

I know this isn't specifically a Windows XP question but

some of you posters here might have insight to whether this could be the

case. I know one thing

--The tech at Sony's chat site didn't know.

[Guest RJK]

Re: Slightly Off-topic but not way off?

 

Well, I think it is an XP question, and you're probably right in that SP3

has lost you the ability to restore applications from your Sony cd's.

 

Have you examined this Application Recovery cd, to see if you can drill

through to application directories and run their setup.exe program directly

from those directory's ?

....instead of running a cd menu-program ...if that's what you're doing ?

 

A worrying thought, (if you meant "deleted" rather than "uninstalled"),

"some programs from their default locations" is that this can cause

problems - if programs aren't uninstalled using their uninstall routine/s.

i.e. uninstall routines are usually a token gesture and better than nothing

but, manually deleting program folders is ridiculous !

 

Failing that,

You might like to uninstall SP3, (if possible), then run this "Sony"

'Application Recovery' disk, then reapply SP3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/sp3/default.mspx

 

regards, Richard

 

 

"ManyBeers" <ManyBeers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:954FBE28-6014-4D1D-BB67-CAAB24038B95@microsoft.com...

>I have a Sony Vaio PCGFXA 47 notebook with WindowsXP sp3. The computer came

> with Recovery cds and not a WindowsXP cd. So there was no Recovery Console

> originally with my computer. However about 6 months ago I was at this

> website

> http://www.aumha.org/ and there was a procedure in a thread outlining the

> steps to installing the Recovery Console on any WindowsXP computer. I

> followed the procedure and I now have the Recovery Console listed as a

> boot

> option on my Boot.ini file.

> A few weeks ago i deleted Screenblast Sounforge&Acid;

> Photoshop Elements; and WinDVD from their default install locations on my

> C:\drive so I could make a smaller image to burn. These programs are OEM

> to

> my computer. Anyways after burning the image i wanted to reinstall those

> programs so I put in the Application Recovery cd to do so but was given

> the

> message "This application is not designed to run on this computer". So I

> could not install the programs. My question is this: Did my installing

> either

> SP3 or The Recovery Console cause this effect?

> I know this isn't specifically a Windows XP question

> but

> some of you posters here might have insight to whether this could be the

> case. I know one thing

> --The tech at Sony's chat site didn't know.

[Guest Anthony Buckland]

Re: Slightly Off-topic but not way off?

 

 

"ManyBeers" <ManyBeers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:954FBE28-6014-4D1D-BB67-CAAB24038B95@microsoft.com...

>I have a Sony Vaio PCGFXA 47 notebook with WindowsXP sp3. The computer came

> with Recovery cds and not a WindowsXP cd. So there was no Recovery Console

> originally with my computer. However about 6 months ago I was at this

> website

> http://www.aumha.org/ and there was a procedure in a thread outlining the

> steps to installing the Recovery Console on any WindowsXP computer. I

> followed the procedure and I now have the Recovery Console listed as a

> boot

> option on my Boot.ini file.

> A few weeks ago i deleted Screenblast Sounforge&Acid;

> Photoshop Elements; and WinDVD from their default install locations on my

> C:\drive so I could make a smaller image to burn. These programs are OEM

> to

> my computer. Anyways after burning the image i wanted to reinstall those

> programs so I put in the Application Recovery cd to do so but was given

> the

> message "This application is not designed to run on this computer". So I

> could not install the programs. ...

 

Could I venture the suggestion that uninstalling (or, heaven forfend,

actually deleting) applications to make a smaller backup image

and then reinstalling them is a strange way to deal with limited

backup space? I back up myself to a USB-connected hard drive,

which has more than adequate space for many backup images.

Making do with smaller backup media is risking losing, as you

may have done, applications you may regret not having later.

If you deinstall, make _sure_ in advance you have the means

to reinstall.

 

Meanwhile, do you have an earlier full image you could restore,

and then use the later partial image to recover things like My

Documents, your mail files, etc? There might still be

complications like reinstalling things you installed between

the earlier image and the later one, but at least you'd have

the lost applications back? I assume you're using something

like Acronis True Image which has a facility for restoring

selected files from an image.

[Guest ManyBeers]

Re: Slightly Off-topic but not way off?

 

 

 

"RJK" wrote:

> Well, I think it is an XP question, and you're probably right in that SP3

> has lost you the ability to restore applications from your Sony cd's.

>

> Have you examined this Application Recovery cd, to see if you can drill

> through to application directories and run their setup.exe program directly

> from those directory's ?

> ....instead of running a cd menu-program ...if that's what you're doing ?

>

> A worrying thought, (if you meant "deleted" rather than "uninstalled"),

> "some programs from their default locations" is that this can cause

> problems - if programs aren't uninstalled using their uninstall routine/s.

> i.e. uninstall routines are usually a token gesture and better than nothing

> but, manually deleting program folders is ridiculous !

>

> Failing that,

> You might like to uninstall SP3, (if possible), then run this "Sony"

> 'Application Recovery' disk, then reapply SP3

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717

> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/sp3/default.mspx

>

> regards, Richard

I meant uninstalled. I just wanted confirmation that the

problem is with the updates and changes my computer has gone through over

time. Or at least you agree that is a likely possibility?

I was able to get ScreenblastSoundforge&Acid, and Photoshop

Elements installed through plain dumb luck. In the root of my C:\drive is a

Sonysys folder and in it a Checkdmi.exe which i clicked on with the 1st

Application Recovery cd in my cd drive and low and behold it went ahead and

installed them. But there are many other small programs on the application #2

cd which I can't access. So no WinDVD....yet.

[Guest Lem]

Re: Slightly Off-topic but not way off?

 

ManyBeers wrote:

> I have a Sony Vaio PCGFXA 47 notebook with WindowsXP sp3. The computer came

> with Recovery cds and not a WindowsXP cd. So there was no Recovery Console

> originally with my computer. However about 6 months ago I was at this website

> http://www.aumha.org/ and there was a procedure in a thread outlining the

> steps to installing the Recovery Console on any WindowsXP computer. I

> followed the procedure and I now have the Recovery Console listed as a boot

> option on my Boot.ini file.

> A few weeks ago i deleted Screenblast Sounforge&Acid;

> Photoshop Elements; and WinDVD from their default install locations on my

> C:\drive so I could make a smaller image to burn. These programs are OEM to

> my computer. Anyways after burning the image i wanted to reinstall those

> programs so I put in the Application Recovery cd to do so but was given the

> message "This application is not designed to run on this computer". So I

> could not install the programs. My question is this: Did my installing either

> SP3 or The Recovery Console cause this effect?

> I know this isn't specifically a Windows XP question but

> some of you posters here might have insight to whether this could be the

> case. I know one thing

> --The tech at Sony's chat site didn't know.

 

Call Sony and speak to another tech.

 

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Lem -- MS-MVP

 

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