Sony Vaio series Operating Instructions Manual page 4

Recovering your VAIO system
Before using your computer ...................................................... 14
What to do first .................................................................................................. 14
Creating your own recovery discs (Recovery Media Kit)................................... 15
To create recovery discs ............................................................................16
Finding out what to do in case of computer malfunctions.......... 17
If your computer does not work properly ........................................................... 17
Recovering your VAIO system .................................................. 18
Before starting the recovery process................................................................. 18
Recovering your VAIO system when you can start Windows ........................... 20
To restore the C drive ................................................................................ 20
Recovering your VAIO system when you cannot start Windows ...................... 21
To recover your computer system from recovery partition......................... 21
To recover your computer system using recovery discs ............................ 21
Changing the partition sizes ...................................................... 22
About hard disk partitioning...............................................................................22
Creating a hard disk partition ............................................................................22
To create a partition ................................................................................... 22
Deleting the recovery partition........................................................................... 23
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