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VGN-S56GP recovery

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VGN-S56GP recovery

This is regarding my old vaio. I tried restoring it by pressing F10 and got this error message "INF file txtsetup.sif corrupt or missing, Status 4. Press any key to restart". I have the recovery discs but I can't use them as the drive (optical) is out of order. My questions are:

1. Can I copy the txtsetup.sif file from recovery disc onto the recovery partition? I have noticed they are of different size. The one on recovery partition is 462KB and the one on recovery disc is 461KB.

2. If I want to change the HDD from current 80GB to 160GB (I am guessing thats the max I can go on this model?), is there a way I can restore the OS from recovery discs to the new HDD?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Damn......I uninstalled all Roxio products as soon as I restored my laptop. Anyway I can get back just the Roxio one without actually going through the process of restoration again? (HDD recovery partition is intact now). :thinking:

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OK...Guess I figured out how to reinstall specific applications using recovery utility. I don't see any option to reinstall Roxio which I uninstalled. I am offered with the following choices..... Could the codecs be hidden elsewhere?

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/7688/vaoi2.jpg

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/9177/vaoi1.jpg

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Hi.....Any pointers? Could the codecs be in any of the programs listed above or do I have to start from the scratch to get the drive to work?