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    Please Help! Recovery Discs for Sony Vaio VPCZ117GG

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by calbear707, Oct 27, 2014.

  1. calbear707

    calbear707 Newbie

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    Hi,

    Does anyone know where I can get Recovery Discs for a Sony Vaio VPCZ117GG?
     
    calbear707, Oct 27, 2014
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  2. timiboy

    timiboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am pretty sure they do not exist :) The VPC-Z1 were shipped without recovery media and one must "produce" them after the first start or at any time as Long as YOu have the original Image on the HDD/SSD. But why would You Need one? There are very good instructions on how to make a clean install of XP, W7 and even W8. Your other best guess is to ask someone with a VPC-Z1XX to make You recoveries.

    Timiboy
     
    timiboy, Oct 28, 2014
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    calbear707 Newbie

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    @timiboy Thanks! At this point I'm running out of options. What happened was that removed the RAID volume or RAID 0 and since then when I boot up my laptop I get "operating system not found, I have a feeling I did something I wasn't suppose to do :( I have tried looking up options but none of them have worked and frankly I'm quite not sure what to do since I really don't understand what I did...
     
    calbear707, Oct 28, 2014
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    anytimer Notebook Virtuoso

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    I too strongly recommend that you do a clean install of whichever Windows you prefer. This automatically gets rid of all the bloatware that came bundled with your system (a whole bunch of trial versions that will no longer work). You can download the Windows installation media files from digitalriver et. al. then activate it online after buying the license, or buy a Windows DVD. Everything works, even on Windows 8.1.
     
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    timiboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    @calbear707

    Where did You remove that? Did You enter the RAID BIOS by pressing Ctrl-I ? What then...did You choose "Reset to Non-RAID" or "delete RAID-Volume"? If so You are out of luck and must do a clean install! Nothing to worry about but before doing so You should decide if You wish to continue on a RAID volume or on 2 (or 4 if You have a quad ssd model) separate disks.

    Timiboy
     
    timiboy, Oct 29, 2014
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    calbear707 Newbie

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    I entered Ctrl-I and it brought me to a RAID menu where I believe I chose "delete RAID-Volume" :confused: so I guess I am out of luck... I do have a Quad SSD in
    RAID 0: 256 GB (64GB x 4, Serial ARA), but would can you please to me the difference between continuing with a RAID volume or on 4 separate disks? Thanks.
     
    calbear707, Oct 29, 2014
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  7. timiboy

    timiboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sure mate,

    You can using the same Ctrl-I create a new RAID and then You will have a 256GB drive in Windows (what I personally would recommend). You can of course continue without a RAID and then You will have 4 separate "hard disks" in Windows ;)
     
    timiboy, Oct 31, 2014
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    If you haven't changed anything else on the drives, sometimes you can just recreate the exact same RAID configuration that you had previously and the files/Windows installation might still be there.
     
    namaiki, Oct 31, 2014
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