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

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:53:15 +0000

Ok Problem: My friends daughter has a laptop, broke, later admitted she dropped it… hey ho ok so time to sort it out.Or maybe not… Sony sell laptops with NO, and I mean no disks.You have a licence SO you should have an Installation disc at least” you have paid for it”. HD screwed.. not wanting to have my “client to go through this ever again he bought win 7 reinstall. If I ever see another laptop from Sony to fix one question “did you do a backup?” if not “waves goodbye….And NO you shouldn’t have to phone Sony to get the disks, BECAUSE you already paid for them when you decided to get a shit sony laptop……..

By: seo

seo — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:28:14 +0000

I never, ever would have imagined I would be required to be familiar with this, but thank goodness for the internet…

By: Tomi

Tomi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:55:06 +0000

I contacted Sony support and the recovery DVDs cost 43 Euro…thats a lot of money..

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:09:27 +0000

This is also the case when using the Recover Partition, as opposed to the Recovery CD’s…

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:08:43 +0000

When using a Sony Recovery CD, no matter how many partitions you’ve created/edited, if you choose to do a full restore (back to the factory install), then you’re going to end up with the same thing you had when you bought the computer. It will remove all partitions, except for the one it’s running in (the Recovery/Hidden Partition). Next, it will recreate the old partition. Finally, the partition is formatted, new files are copied, etc. When it boots up, you’re back in Windows.

(Source: I’ve worked on a lot of them and they all work the same.)