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    Recovery

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by BritGuy79, Jul 3, 2012.

  1. BritGuy79

    BritGuy79 Notebook Geek

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    Hello,

    Has anyone who owns an Z series Vaio with SSD deleted their recovery partition? If so is it easy to do?
    I have noticed that my 256GB SSD only has like 167GB free.

    Since i do not have the external optical drive, i wanted to know can i create a recovery on a external HD? If so how would i go about doing so?

    Thanks
     
    BritGuy79, Jul 3, 2012
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    BritGuy79 Notebook Geek

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    Any help please?
     
    BritGuy79, Jul 6, 2012
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    McMagnus Notebook Consultant

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    There's usually a section about that in the manual. Also try to "Vaio Recovery Center" or somesuch. Usually lets you back it up in any external device so you can remove it.
     
    McMagnus, Jul 7, 2012
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    BritGuy79 Notebook Geek

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    Thanks McMagnus.

    Though i still have a few questions. I did try to create a recovery partition, but it wouldn't work on my external HD. It actually asks for a USB Flash Drive with at least 20GB free space. I have a few questions below:

    (1) If this recovery partition requires 20GB free space, how come my 256GB SSD only has like 167GB free?

    (2) Once i have created the recovery partition how do i delete the recovery partition? As i didn't notice any options to do so.

    (3) Can anyone recommend a 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive with a fast transfer rate? The cheap ones i have seen on ebay (£15-25) seem to have rates like 11mb/s. What should the rate be?

    Thanks
     
    BritGuy79, Jul 14, 2012
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    Primes Notebook Deity

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    It is probably due to the total of a combination of things like: actual size, recovery partition, pagefile, hibernation file and win7.

    this site explains it pretty well.

    "for each Gigabyte that a drive manufacturer claims, they are over reporting the amount of disk space by 73,741,824 Bytes or roughly 70.3 MB of disk space."

    so your 256gb ssd is actually 238gb.
    with 8gb of ram your looking at:
    8gb hibernation file
    16gb pagefile
    you say the recovery partition is 20gb?

    so that gives you 256 - 18 - 8 - 16 - 20 = 194gb.
    figure in the remaining 27gb of operating system, installed programs and bloatware and you are probably sitting at 167gb free.
     
    Primes, Jul 14, 2012
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