Starting The Recovery - Sony Vaio Troubleshooting Manual

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Starting the recovery

From the VAIO Recovery and Documentation Disc options screen, proceed as follows:
1 Read the next section about performing a system recovery before you proceed.
2 Click Go! under the option Recover the operating system to begin the recovery process.
A warning message appears.
3 Read the instruction and click OK to proceed, or Cancel to return to the VAIO Recovery and Documentation Disc
options screen.
If you clicked OK, the system restarts.
4 Pay close attention to what appears onscreen.
The Sony logo appears.
5 As soon as you see the message Press any key!, you must do so within 3 seconds. Otherwise, the system will
search the hard drive instead of the disc and recovery will not start.
If you fail to press any key within the time allowed, simply restart your computer and repeat the procedure.
The recovery utility starts.
6 Follow the instructions onscreen, accompanied by the descriptions in the next section of this guide.
You can still choose to abort at this time.
If you can no longer access Windows
1 Turn on the computer.
2 Insert the VAIO Recovery and Documentation Disc into the disc drive.
3 Restart the computer and pay close attention to what appears onscreen.
The Sony logo appears.
4 As soon as you see the message Press any key!, you must do so within 3 seconds. Otherwise, the system will
search the hard drive instead of the disc and recovery will not start.
If you fail to press any key within the time allowed, simply restart your computer and repeat the procedure.
The recovery utility starts.
5 Follow the instructions onscreen, accompanied by the descriptions in the next section of this guide.
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, proceed as follows:
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