Recovering Your Vaio System When You Cannot Start Windows; To Recover Your Computer System Using Recovery Discs; To Recover Your Computer System From Recovery Partition - Sony VGN-AW21M/H Troubleshooting Manual

Recovering your VAIO system when you
cannot start Windows
If Windows does not start, you can select from the following two options:
❑ Recover your computer system using recovery discs.
You can recover your computer system using recovery discs when you
have damaged or erased the recovery partition data. However, it takes
more time than recovering it from the recovery partition.
❑ Recover your computer system from the recovery partition.
You can recover your computer system faster than recovering it using
recovery discs, because the recovery partition on the hard disk is used.
To recover your computer system using recovery
discs
1 Insert a recovery disc to the drive while the computer is on, turn off your
computer, and turn on the computer again.
The Windows Boot Manager is displayed.
M or m key to select Start VAIO Recovery Center and press
2 Press the
the Enter key.
3 Follow the steps after step 1 in "To restore the C drive" on page 32 or "To
restore your entire computer system" on page 32, depending on your
computer state.
To recover your computer system from recovery
partition
1 Turn on your computer.
2 Press the F10 key when the VAIO logo appears.
If the Edit Boot Options window is displayed, press the Enter key.
3 Follow the steps after step 1 in "To restore the C drive" on page 32 or "To
restore your entire computer system" on page 32, depending on your
computer state.
After completing the recovery process, restore your data from the backup
copy made with the Rescue Data software. To restore the data from the
backup copy, see "Backing up and restoring your data with the VAIO
software" on page 23.
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