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    Can't access Vaio Recovery Center

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by nfs, Jul 20, 2010.

  1. nfs

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    Hi there, I had a problem accessing Vaio Recovery Center using the recovery disks. I hope I can get some advice from you guys.

    When I boot from the recovery disks, after selecting language and operating system partition, there is a screen where you can select different tasks. "Launch Vaio Recovery Center" is at the very bottom. After I click it, I got a message saying "Can't copy files". I'm trying to restore the whole C drive.

    Thanks in advance!
     
    nfs, Jul 20, 2010
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    Quackers Notebook Guru

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    Do you still have the recovery partition? If so tap the F11 key during startup and the Recovery Centre should start up.
     
    Quackers, Jul 21, 2010
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    I thought it's F10. No wonder it didn't work. I got a black boot option screen when I did that.

    I'll give F11 a try. Thanks!
     
    nfs, Jul 21, 2010
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    Looks like F11 didn't work. It went straight to Windows.

    Instead when I tried F10, I got a screen titled "Edit Boot Options" with a path to an exe file in windows folder. The cursor is inside a pair of brackets. I can type in there. It looks like something below.

    Code: 
    \windows\system32\winload.exe
partition: 2

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    nfs, Jul 21, 2010
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