Reinstalling OS

[nihardandela]

I would like to reinstall win7 to make more partitions in HDD. But unfortunately I lost my windows key on back side of my lappyy........

Please help me on, how find my windows key....is there any other chance

thanks

[Blencogo · Accepted solution]

Hi nihardandela and welcome.

Your Vaio was sold with a Sony OEM version of Windows 7 installed.  This version of Windows 7 never needs activation as a Recovery from the HDD or from Recovery Discs does not need activation.  Consequently the Product Key on the bottom of your Vaio is not a valid activation key and cannot be used to activate any other retail version of Windows.

You can add partitions and resize using Windows 7 and this does not require a reinstalation of the OS.  Just use Windows 7 Disc Management to add and manage partitions: -

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309170.aspx