Sep/0923
InterVideo WinDVD BD for VAIO
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
I hope this helps out somebody out there.. and if you find it useful; don’t forget to thank in the comments section.
Jul/080
Successfully deploy a ghost Image to Many computers at the same time.
My Scenario: Need to format and install XP Pro on 33 Dell Dimension PC’s, same model and components. Need to fix the “same computer name” problem because the computers will be joining the network.
Non-Explained solution:
Install XP on one computer, download all updates, drivers, install software needed in all computers, set up Sysprep, shut down, boot up Ghost and create image, Run GhostCast server, load up image, Boot Hirens Cd (or ghost network floppy) on the computers and Multicast the Image to All of the computers. Simple Huh? 
Tutorial after the break.
Jun/089
ANSEL Communications Wireless 2418 USB Dongle Drivers
ANSEL Communications Wireless 802.11g USB Dongle Driver.
Model No. 2418
FCC ID: RYK-WUBZ-103
Jun/080
WinZip v11.0
Although this version is pretty old, let’s say .2 versions old (the new one is 11.2). Anyway, here is the link for WinZip, a powerful compression utility. You know the rest. To learn more about WinZip visit winzip.com.
The link here: