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    Please Help, Serious Tz Problem!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by fmc159, May 4, 2008.

  1. fmc159

    fmc159 Notebook Guru

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    Ok so i installed xp instead of vista, but now i need to get vista back and i want to recover the whole system, but when i try pressing F10 at the vaio logo when booting, it says ntldr missing, press ctrl alt del to restart. and i dont have vaio recovery utility on xp, how can i sort this?
     
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  2. DavidT.

    DavidT. Newbie

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    Did you backup or burn the recovery partition on the drive to DVDs prior to installing XP?
     
    DavidT., May 4, 2008
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  3. littlewing2008

    littlewing2008 Notebook Enthusiast

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    looks like you deleted the hidden partition in your vaio TZ
    thats not good news ...
    you will most probably need to get the a recovery disk from a friend or sony itself
     
    littlewing2008, May 5, 2008
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  4. fmc159

    fmc159 Notebook Guru

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    no i havent deleted the recovery partition - i can still see it in disk management, does anyone have a tz11xn and could make some recovery disks for me? i would pay a lot to get them!
     
    fmc159, May 5, 2008
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  5. ngvuanh

    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    You may have another option if the recovery's still there. Install a fresh windows XP and then run VAIO Recovery Wizard to create your own DVDs. PM me with your email, I will send you stand alone VAIO Recovery utility.
     
    ngvuanh, May 5, 2008
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