To Create Recovery Discs - Sony VGN-AR61E Troubleshooting Manual

To create recovery discs

When your computer is ready for use, follow these steps to create recovery
discs.
1 Click Start, All Programs, VAIO Recovery Center, and
VAIO Recovery Center.
The User Account Control window appears.
2 Click Continue.
If you are currently logged onto your computer as a standard user, enter
an administrator name and password and click Continue.
The VAIO Recovery Center window appears.
3 Click Create Recovery Discs and Start.
4 Follow the on-screen instructions.
You can confirm the number of necessary discs and types of media you can use for
recovery disc creation in the Choose your media window.
If there is not enough free space on the hard disk drive, you cannot create recovery discs.
Note that you cannot use Blu-ray Disc™ media, DVD-RAM, CD-R, or CD-RW discs as
recovery discs. To find which types of media your optical disc drive supports, see the
on-screen User Guide.
Do not press the drive eject button while creating a recovery disc, as doing so may result
in a failure of the process.
Before using your computer
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