The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Reset sony vaio z1 to factory settings

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by mets3214, Dec 23, 2011.

  1. mets3214

    mets3214 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    145
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    How can I reset my Vaio Z to the way it was when I got it out of the box? I got a brand new Vaio Z that was defective and the eBay seller is replacing it for me with another new one. I need to ship this out today, would love to get some advice ASAP. Thanks
     
    mets3214, Dec 23, 2011
    #1
  2. pyr0

    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

    Reputations:
    829
    Messages:
    1,272
    Likes Received:
    36
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Use the recovery disks you created in the beginning. If you did not create them, power off your Z and press the ASSIST button on the upper keyboard to boot it up into the recovery partition. Follow the instructions to recover to factory defaults. After that, you might consider setting up a bootcd and delete the free space to destroy your data that was left over on the disk after reformatting with the recovery system.

    Good luck and merry x-mas.
     
    pyr0, Dec 23, 2011
    #2
  3. cslaptop

    cslaptop Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    11
    Messages:
    232
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I found a "thank you" missing in this thread... Pyr0 just gave a brief and clear answer w/o any complaints to the OP. Thumbs up.
     
    cslaptop, Feb 2, 2012
    #3