InterVideo WinDVD BD for VAIO
4/30/10- Post updated. Read the last paragraph before venturing in.
I recently upgraded to Windows 7 through my school’s MSDNAA program. For all my drivers, I used Windows Update and everything pretty much worked out of the box. However, recently, my friend bought a 50” HDTV and we wanted to test it out by using my laptop’s (VGN-FW270J) Bluray drive. I looked all over in Sony’s Drivers & Downloads site but All I could find was updates and not the installer. I called Sony and they straight up told me that they didn’t support Win7 until Oct 22nd and that if I wanted to play Bluray without spitting out some cash, that I had to reformat using my recovery partition(which I luckily didn’t format while installing Win7). I looked all over the web for a solution and I couldn’t find any so I took matters into my own hands. I booted up Linux and crawled through the recovery partition and bumped across some files that looked like installation files that were compressed in some way (.MOD). I did some looking around and it turns out that there is a program called Mod2WIM, which temporarily displays your hidden recovery partition and copies over all the installer files (mod & sny) and then converts(unlocks) them to be WIM, a format that is used by Windows to pack / mount installers. After mounting a couple (using gimagex – a graphical inteface to the imagex program that is included in the mod2wim download) , I found WinDVD BD, which was file “MODJ-128993.wim”. After mounting, I just opened the setup.exe file and voilà! The installer popped up.
So If you have a Sony VAIO Notebook computer which comes with WinDVD BD preinstalled and wishes to play Bluray without reformatting or anything crazy like that, go ahead and download it here.
And if you wish to install some of the other software that comes preinstalled which your computer, here is the software I used and some explanatory screenshots.
Mod2WIM [Download] ( Click to enlarge )
ImageX [Download] (GUI Version GImageX) 
The files I were able to obtain from my partition were:
437M MOD-Quickbooks_Starter_Edition.no_3.wim
435M MOD-VAIO_Movie_Story.no_35.wim
312M MOD-OneCare.no_36.wim
307M MOD-Office_2007_Home_and_Student_Trial.no_6.wim
300M MODJ-126940.no_15.wim
252M MOD-MS_Works_Bundle.no_5.wim
190M MODJ-126695.no_17.wim
189M MODJ-128993.no_31.wim
180M MOD-Music_Box.no_34.wim
161M MODJ-126708.no_26.wim
137M MOD-VAIO_Help_and_Support.no_48.wim
90M MODJ-126813.no_24.wim
68M MODJ-126259.no_7.wim
65M MOD-VAIO_Media_Plus.no_40.wim
46M MODJ-126696.no_20.wim
46M MOD-AOL_Software.no_47.wim
44M MOD-Wireless_Connection_Utility_EVDO.no_46.wim
29M MODJ-126299.no_9.wim
20M MODJ-126885.no_21.wim
19M MODJ-126296.no_8.wim
18M MODJ-126887.no_28.wim
16M MODJ-127038.no_25.wim
16M MODJ-126883.no_22.wim
12M MOD-Napster_Pre_Install.no_32.wim
12M MODJ-126880.no_23.wim
8.5M MOD-VAIO_OOBE_And_Welcome_Center.no_49.wim
7.7M MOD-VAIO_Care.no_50.wim
6.8M MOD-MS_Office_2007_Activation_Assistant.no_33.wim
6.8M MODJ-126798.no_19.wim
6.1M MODJ-126955.no_14.wim
5.6M MOD-VAIO_Wireless_Wizard.no_41.wim
5.1M MODJ-120274.no_2.wim
4.8M MODJ-126894.no_13.wim
4.6M MODJ-126779.no_12.wim
3.7M MOD-CSUP.no_39.wim
3.2M MODJ-128897.no_30.wim
2.9M MODJ-126728.no_27.wim
2.7M MOD-VAIO_Startup_Assistant.no_45.wim
2.2M MODJ-126943.no_18.wim
2.2M MOD-Documentation.no_44.wim
2.2M MODJ-126957.no_16.wim
2.0M MOD-VAIO_My_Memory_Center.no_11.wim
1.7M MOD-VAIO_Survey_Standalone.no_43.wim
1.7M MOD-Media_Center_User_Guide.no_4.wim
1.5M MOD-SetAutoFailover.no_42.wim
412K EPC-RenewCPU.no_51.wim
304K MOD-Registration_Warranty.no_10.wim
184K MOD-Puma.no_37.wim
128K MOD-OEM_Information_Registry_Settings.no_38.wim
16K MODJ-128994.no_29.wim
4.0K MOD-PowerPlay_Setting A.no_1.wim
*Update* 4/30/10 – Sony eSupport site finally caught up to Windows 7. As of January of 2010, they have put up the installer for (at least) my model. You can grab the installer from their site:http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=VGNFW270J&SelectOS=45#div_pos_113 and expanding the ‘WinDVD sofware’ dropdown. My model is in there, you can change it to see if you can find yours.
I hope this helps out somebody out there.. and if you find it useful; don’t forget to thank in the comments section.
September 21st, 2009 - 07:28
hi. thänx 4 that. i had exactly the same prob…
September 26th, 2009 - 20:52
Thanks so much for this!!! You just made my evening. After spending hours scouring the net, i finally found this. You sir have made my day!!!
September 27th, 2009 - 19:04
Thank you very much for your tip. I solved my problem easily with your help.
Regards
Pedro – (from Portugal)
September 28th, 2009 - 23:49
Awesome, now I have access to all of the Sony software for when I upgrade to 7 (I got a free upgrade with my FW and hopefully I can do a clean install somehow)! Thank you!
October 7th, 2009 - 04:49
I do not know how to work with the ImageX instead of it I used the 7-zip which was good enough.
Now the way to W7 is quite clear.
Thanks FruhMi (CZE, Sony Vaio FW31ZJ
October 12th, 2009 - 00:28
Worked great. Thanks. I’m curious if you plan to just use this as is, or if any of Sony’s WinDVD updates would work with this.
October 19th, 2009 - 10:15
I’m still having problems with this, I’ve downloaded and installed, but it wont let me play Blu-Ray discs still on my Vaio.
October 25th, 2009 - 10:54
thanks, i’m about to install w7 and i want to make sure that blu ray will work on my vaio. hope that everything works
October 26th, 2009 - 01:34
Thx, but I have the same problem as Richard. Setup was successful, but it wont let me play blue rays. No error msg on the screen…
October 27th, 2009 - 02:52
thanks,worked great
October 28th, 2009 - 09:20
I use win7 and vaio FW series and thanks for much more !!!
November 2nd, 2009 - 06:40
Thank you so much for this. I did exactly the same thing as you except I had zapped the recovery partition thinking I would never again need all that Sony bloatware. So you really got me out of a hole. Much appreciated!
Frank.
November 6th, 2009 - 10:20
worked great! does the update from sony work on it?
November 6th, 2009 - 10:39
can you get the recovery center so we could install it on 7?
December 1st, 2009 - 15:30
I have purchased a premium account to download this, but it wont download. i need help please
December 2nd, 2009 - 13:22
Al, You do not need to buy a premium account to download the file. You can just click ‘Free User’ in the download page and wait for the timer countdown and it will generate the file for you.
Hope it helps,
Andre
December 9th, 2009 - 12:39
Thanks works great FYI Disable norton 360 and log into correll acct before launching windvd
January 1st, 2010 - 20:01
hi, you are definatly a inteligent guy, thank’s so much.
January 10th, 2010 - 04:32
Oh wow!!! Thanks so much for this. Just upgraded to Win 7 and couldnt get WinDVD BR to install. Was looking on Google and found this site.
Thanks so much again you just saved me €80!
January 16th, 2010 - 21:42
Holy crap, dude – you just saved me hours and hours and pain and hours. I know better than to reformat over my recovery partition but like you I wanted a clean upgrade and then found out I was going to have to roll back to Vista, make recovery disks, bla, bla, bla. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, repeat that another 100 times.
January 19th, 2010 - 06:39
Thanks i looked over the net but i couldnt find anything .this is great software i have to say thank you again. the only things i want to know how i am able to hide the recovery partition? please answer my question.
February 10th, 2010 - 22:11
Excellent work, save my day!!! Thanks a lot!!!
February 28th, 2010 - 09:48
I can’t download it from Rapidshare – they’ve been strangling free users for months now. Can anyone re-upload this to somewhere else please? Thank you in advance!
May 30th, 2010 - 14:53
Thank you so very much!
June 6th, 2010 - 22:29
Hi
I have a VPCCW17FX which came with Win 7 Home Premium. I did a clean new install of Win 7 Ultimate, as a result of which I lost the WinDVD player. Sony support was no help – they said I would have to downgrade to Home Prem to get them to give me the WinDVD software to play bluray. Will the above process work for me. Is the recovery partition the same as the ‘system reserved’ part of the directory..any help/info would be appreciated.
Thanks
June 17th, 2010 - 10:22
Fantastic, thanks
I have a vaoi VPCEA1Z1E/B using the same procedure as above I also managed to reinstall WinDVD file is MODJ-159949.no_74.wim
October 13th, 2010 - 14:45
aaaaaaah this saved my a@%
October 14th, 2010 - 13:26
Hey, thank you very much. This is what I looked for… exactly the same problem
January 5th, 2011 - 07:18
Excellent software, thanks.
I have vaio VPCEB3Z1E notebook and, of course, managed to install WinDVDBD 2010 with this procedure. The file is MODJ-168839.wim (111MB)
January 5th, 2011 - 19:36
Thanks alot, cant belive how long i spent to googleing to find this!
July 29th, 2011 - 06:30
many thanks, it worked wonderful!
October 4th, 2011 - 07:34
If you have troubles playing Blu-raydiscs in Windows 7, try this. When WinDVD launches, right click and choose Setup. Go to Audio/Video setup tab. At the bottom, uncheck “Allow WinDVD to check if Blu-ray is supported in the Windows Aero environment(Windows7 only).”. Then it suddenly starts working.