Creating Your Own Recovery Discs; To Create Recovery Discs - Sony VGN-AR78E Troubleshooting Manual

Creating your own recovery discs

Recovery discs enable you to recover your computer system to its original
state. You can create the recovery discs with VAIO Recovery Center.
Recover the computer system in the following cases:
❑ Your computer has been infected with a computer virus.
❑ Your computer has been unstable.
❑ Your computer system is experiencing problems which cannot be solved
through troubleshooting.
❑ You have formatted the C drive on your computer by mistake.
Depending on your computer state, you may need recovery discs to recover
your computer system.
You may not be able to recover your computer system from the recovery partition in the
following cases due to modifications of the recovery partition.
❑
You have used software to modify the recovery partition.
❑
You have installed an operating system different from the preinstalled operating
system on your computer.
❑
You have formatted your hard disk without using VAIO Recovery Center.
In these cases, recover your computer system with the recovery discs. If you have not yet
created them, you need to purchase them or repair the computer at your expense.

To create recovery discs

When your computer is ready for use, follow these steps to create recovery
discs.
1 Make sure you have blank discs ready beforehand.
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.
Note that you cannot use Blu-ray Disc™ media, DVD-RAM, CD-R, or CD-RW discs as
recovery discs. To find out which types of media your optical disc drive supports, see the
on-screen User Guide.
2 Launch VAIO Recovery Center (see page 14).
3 Click Create Recovery Discs and Start.
4 Follow the on-screen instructions.
If there is not enough free space on the hard disk drive, you cannot create recovery discs.
Do not press the drive eject button while creating a recovery disc, as doing so may result
in a failure of the process.
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