topic Re: Lost Recovery-discs in PCs & Accessories

Lost Recovery-discs

iMAX — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:07:32 GMT

Hello everyone! This is my first post here on Club Vaio. So be gentle :smileygrin:

I have two Vaios, one VGN-A379XP and one TX2XP

It is now a year since I bought my A397 and now its time for recovery. But, I can’t find my discs

I have looked everywhere, but I cans seriously found them.

So what should I do?

Can someone send me the discs?

Can I re-install windows and the drivers separately?

Is there nothing to do?

Thx for any help!

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

Thalamus. — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:05:40 GMT

Hi Imax,

Welcome to Club Vaio,

Your VGN-A379XP has a hidden hard drive recovery partition, by following this guide you can create a set of recovery disc's.

Once the recovery disc's are created you can the Restore your Vaio by following this guide..:smileyhappy:

You can also use the guides above to create recovery disc's for your TX2XP as well..:smileywink:

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

iMAX — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:30:31 GMT

I opened the recovery utility. And saw an interesting option!

Is it possible to recover both c and d from disk? It was an option but I don’t know if I dare to try it!

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

Blencogo — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:58:36 GMT

Careful iMAX,

Recovering the D:\ drive will just format it and ALL data will be lost !!

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

iMAX — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:13:40 GMT

thats the full point of it! i whant to totaly clear my harddrive and set the computer to "new arrival" mode ;D

Anyone who have tried to recover from disk?

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

Blencogo — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:31:46 GMT

In that case you want the Third Option - Complete Recovery (the bottom one).

This will return your Vaio to its factory defaults - just as it was when you bought it.

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

iMAX — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:44:46 GMT

or maby i shuld just go with the discs... what do you think?

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

Blencogo — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:04:19 GMT

You will get exactly the same options if you use the discs as you get with the Recovery Utility.

You will also get exactly the same results - it makes no difference which you use.

If you have not yet done so, I would make two copies of the Recovery Discs to fall back on if there are any problems - even if you are going to use the Recovery Utility.

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

Thalamus. — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:29:43 GMT

Hi iMAX,

It may be a good idea to use the disc's to recovery your vaio as this would test that they disc's work ok..:smileywink:

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

kee-lo_ — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:09:07 GMT

Totally agree with Thalamus, then you know if you've got a good copy.

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

iMAX — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:59:50 GMT

Well I made the discs and have now successfully put my computer to "just arrived"

Sadly there was no "new car smell" installed... but I am happy that it worked :smileygrin:

Thx for your help

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

Thalamus. — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:14:46 GMT

Glad your recovery was a success..:smileyhappy:

Re: Lost Recovery-discs

kee-lo_ — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:39:53 GMT

LOL@new car smell