Comments on: Accessing the recovery partition on Sony VAIO VGN-NR385E -use F10

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:59:32 +0000

thanks – wish I didnt waist time on the sony support pages…

By: innam

innam — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:10:23 +0000

I have 3 partitions and i want to install fresh new windows using factory reset in VAIO …. how I could be able to protect my other drives i.e(D, E ) that contain data….

By: david

david — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:33:05 +0000

Please help me with this matter…guys that know stuff please…
I have a Vaio VGN FZ21Z with Vista original windows.The old HDD broke so i bought a new one.I decided to install win7 32 bit,downloaded all the required drivers for this and everything works fine…but i don’t have the recovery partition to make recovery disks,so…
I took a friend’s Vaio laptop and copied the Vaio Recovery application and also all the files from his RECOVERY PARTITION(note that he has win7 x64 bit).
I open the Vaio Recovery application and when i press to make Rescue discks it says that there is no recovery partition.I then install EASEUS partition manager ,make a 13 GB parttion(named the partition RESCUE)and copied there all the files that my buddy had on HIS recovery partition…i even make it primary and logical,hidden and restarted the system.I open the Vaio Pecovery application to make the rescus disks and still won’t see my hidden partition with all the files i copied inside.

If anyone knows,can this be done so that it can be brought to a initial state like my buddy’s laptop to make recovery disk?

i thought that if i make the exact same thing like he has mabe it works…could it be probably that he has a 64 bit win7 and i have a 32 bitwin7?therefore the files are incompatible with my version?

if someone knows how can this be cracked i’m oren for chat.
Good day to u all.

By: Scott Bearden

Scott Bearden — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:13:14 +0000

Sony

new HD INSTALL GONE BAD?? WHY ME.

TOOK OUT OLD SONY DRIVE WAS WORKING FINE.. 250 GB.

PUT IN PC TO RUN CLONE DISK TO DISK TO NEW 500 SEAGATE CLONE went fine, NO ERRORS.

INSTALL NEW DRIVE TO SONY LAP TOP VGN FZ24OE
CAN NOT FIND windows\system32\boot\winload.exe

I do not know why recovery starts os vista,

is it a bios issue HELP PLEASE.

LAPTOP SONY LOST ABISSS…

SCOTT B

By: Ram

Ram — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:20:10 +0000

Thanks for the detailed explanation guys! My VGN-C140G hangs at the blue Windows XP screen and F10 doesn’t start the recovery process.

How do I mark the recovery partition active and make it bootable?