topic Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSUE in PCs & Accessories

HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

Golfmag2 — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:01:16 GMT

The operating system on my Vaio stopped working. In trying to restore, I messed with the partitions I think.

I bought new System Recovery disks from Sony, but half way through the restore process, I get a message which says "failed to read the image file". The process then aborts.

I found a thread on this elsewhere but in ended without a solution.

Assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

kee-lo_ — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:00:51 GMT

Try the advanced recovery

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

Golfmag2 — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:00:04 GMT

Thanks - how do I do this? I have already tried the three options for receovery given in the System Recovery disks.

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

Thalamus. — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:10:03 GMT

Hi Golfmag2

What model Vaio do you have..?

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

Golfmag2 — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:01:18 GMT

Hi Golfmag2

What model Vaio do you have..?

The one that's broken is an FE28H. I saw that you were trying to solve the same problem on another thread. I must have tried the system recovery twenty times, but it always ends up with the same message.

Many thanks in hope!

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

Blencogo — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:22:21 GMT

Hi Golfmag2,

Have you tried re-setting the BIOS Defaults first?

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

Golfmag2 — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:33:05 GMT

Hi Golfmag2,

Have you tried re-setting the BIOS Defaults first?

I have thanks, the system recovery still won't work afterwards, most common message is "failed to read the image file"

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSE

kee-lo_ — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:08:01 GMT

It's a bad disk then, I would contact VAIO Link and explain the problem with the disk

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSUE

Golfmag2 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:54:44 GMT

God, believe it or not, the System Recovery disks eventually worked. System now rebuilt and functioning.

Thanks all for your help.

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSUE

Thalamus. — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:56:59 GMT

Excellent news..

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSUE

Blencogo — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:28:53 GMT

Another of life's great mysteries!

Glad you've got it sorted.

:smileygrin:

Re: HELP - SYSTEM RESTORE ISSUE

kee-lo_ — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:17:09 GMT

God, believe it or not, the System Recovery disks eventually worked. System now rebuilt and functioning.

Thanks all for your help.

Excellent, might have been a bit of dust on the disk or a fingerprint.