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    Error with hidden recovery partition & damaged recovery discs

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by tabrisfreewill, Jun 25, 2009.

  1. tabrisfreewill

    tabrisfreewill Notebook Consultant

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    I'm trying to do a complete recovery on my sony vaio Z with the recovery discs, which i created first thing when i bought the computer. However, it gives me this error saying that the first recovery disc is bad. Ironically, I created the recovery discs using the laptops own recovery tool and dvd burner.

    So I'm resorting to using the hidden recovery partition drive to do a complete recovery. This time, when the process is at about 95%, it pops two dialog windows with these two numbers: 304 and 305. I can close the windows but the whole recovery application would hang and I'm forced to restart.

    I'm being screwed twicefolds here. What else can I do to get my factory default system back? Thanks.
     
    tabrisfreewill, Jun 25, 2009
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  2. arth1

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    That's at least five people so far that have the same problem. When the recovery DVD creation app doesn't do any verifying, the only way to find out is by trying a restore. And I have yet to hear about anyone who successfully restored from a DVD, only from the recovery partition.

    When I received my machine, I burned two sets of DVDs, and knowing that no backup is complete before you've verified that you can restore, I immediately tried a restore. Both failed on the first DVD. I then restored using the recovery partition, and threw away the DVDs. These were high quality DVDs, which haven't given me a coaster ever, and, indeed, verifying the DVDs shows no errors either. But a restore does give a cryptic 304 error after a while.

    Are there anyone here who have successfully restored from DVDs on a Z?
     
    arth1, Jun 25, 2009
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