SZ: How to restore hidden recovery partition

I did semi-install from Recovery Discs and delete the recovery partition when purchsed SZ. Now I want to sell it and want to recover this hidden partition to the factory condition. How to do?

 

in my knowledge there is no way you can restore or creat hidden partition in your hdd like they store.may be you can contact sony or give special offer to your buyer.

 

Well unlike an OS, you cannot just restore a partition after it's deleted. It's gone forever.

What you can do is provide the new owner with those recovery disks, so that he/she can restore their system any time they want.

 

you can if you had make the Recovery DVD disks before the system is formated.

 

hi wuruoyu can you teach us how to recored recovery partition in our hdd i also need.coz i change my hdd.so now i'd like to make hidden recovery partition. Thanks in advance.

 

If you made a complete backup of your recovery information on a dvd, you can put those in your notebook, and boot back up. Upon doing so it will ask you if you want to do a "complete restore"
What that means is all the restore information on your dvd backup will be used to recreate the recovery partition on your notebook. I have done this already and worked great.

 

You seem to have missed the question here. He asked how to restore a "deleted partition", not how to restore the OS to it's factory settings.

 

can you read the question carefully please !!!

 

well, in korea, just a visit to Sonystyle solve this problem

i would find a user with a same model and ask him/her to send u a copy of the recover DVD (If the user made it)

 

No, the poster is right. Restoring the system to the same exact factory settings (& that includes checking the create a recovery partition or something) will make sure that the whole system is restored to the way you 1st receive the laptop (& it means with all the bloatware & the recovery partition). By the way, you'll need to have made the recovery DVDs to do this.

 

create the 2 dvds from the vaio recovery utility in XP or Vista, when it's done, you will have two dvd, and no matter what hard disk you gonna change, just put the dvd in and boot it, select recover to the orignal factory setting, and it will automatically format your whole hard drive, making a hidden partition for the recovery, and another partition(c which had your OS system(xp or vista) installed. after that, you won't need the dvds to recover the system, you just press F10 right after you turn on your vaio, and it will bring you into the recovery mode. hope that help.

 

Thank u so much for your help!

 

no problem..

 

By the way, how to recover hidden recovery partition while keeping customized Drive C: (I did semi-install and deleted the hidden recovery).
The reason for this is, I am very concerned about the quality of the 2 DVD Recovery which may not last for a long time.

 

it's possible to recover hidden recovery partition while keeping customized Drive C: if do have a usb external hard drive, make an image of your C: drive with acronis true image or norton ghost and save it on your external hdd, after do a complete recovery from the dvd,, then restore the image that you created on the external hdd replace your c: drive.hope that help.

 

okey i have one question after you creat image and restore the image in c:/dirve can we access without software acronis or norton like sony save hidden recovery partition then we just need to do is hit the F8 button to recovery.

 

why ppl are giving dumb answer.....i'm asking about how to creat hidden recovery partition and save in hdd like sony save and when you need recovery disc you just need to do is press F8 key.not asking how to recover my laptop.

 

I believe that is most people want to do, but with my knowledge, i don't think it's possible, vaio recovery utility is speacially designed, it does not make a image of your C drive, it simple backup the OS system file, and other vaio software setups. personally i recommend using norton ghost, you can save the image you had made into a primary partition like the hidden partition created by sony, then when you need to restore it, you simply boot from a cd that include ms-dos and norton ghost on it, the cd you can easily found on the internet.

 

now you got it.... this is what i'm talking about.we can't create hidden recovery parthition. and that is what he asking "biumoc"

 

damn, i think you are the one don't get it, biumoc wants the factory condition, not like what you think, a customize one, so get lost...u

 

by the way, i think i kind of figure out how to make a EISA partition(hidden like the vaio one), but person like you who don't even look carefully to the question will never understand such comflex even i post 100s posts to explain to you.