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    I deleted my main drive (help plz)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by tim2001, May 20, 2010.

  1. tim2001

    tim2001 Newbie

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    i have deleted my main drive (c), i want to recover back to the factory setting by recovery partition, i dont have the recovery center, so i cant use the f10 to recover it, how can i recover the drive by using the hidden recovery partition. thx
     
    tim2001, May 20, 2010
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  2. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    Press F10 at the Vaio logo when booting up. This won't work if you had deleted the recovery partition (your question doesn't make sense).
    You can use the recovery DVD's (if you had made them) to restore back to factory state.
    You can also get recovery media from Sony.
     
    coolguy, May 20, 2010
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    tim2001 Newbie

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    i know it wont work , so now the only way is asking sony to get a recovery disk? any way to make a recovery disk?
     
    tim2001, May 20, 2010
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    How did you delete your recovery partition? By formatting the C drive, the hidden partition won't get deleted.
    You can get the recovery media only from Sony, if you don't have both the recovery partition and the DVD's.
     
    coolguy, May 20, 2010
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    tim2001 Newbie

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    i deleted my main os drive, i did not delete my hidden partition , problem is how to use the hidden partition to recover my pc , thx
     
    tim2001, May 20, 2010
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  6. arth1

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    You've already been told how (press F10 during the Vaio boot logo) but seem to claim that you "know" this won't work.
    Please explain how you "know" this, because that's how the rest of us access the restore partition.
     
    arth1, May 20, 2010
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