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    Sony FZ factory recover?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by joon82, Aug 11, 2008.

  1. joon82

    joon82 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm trying to recover to factroy. Read through the board and found out f10 is recovery tool for vaios.
    So i pressed f10 and clicked on recover c:. When I tried that I get
    "your system drive is too small or may not exist. Select Restore Complete System to perform a complete system recovery"
    but I do not see Restore Complete syste.
    I tried rebooting and now its not going into windows and going straight to recovery tool.

    tried system restore in recovery tool but getting
    no restore points has been created on your compters system data.
     
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    bubbatex Notebook Deity

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    Did you burn recovery disks when you first got the FZ? You could use those. Otherwise try: Go to Start> Help and Support> Backup & Recovery> at the bottom of this page should be "Vaio Recovery Center" and you should be able to launch the recovery center from there.
     
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  3. joon82

    joon82 Notebook Consultant

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    I cant access windows anymore. It goes straight to recovery center.
    I tried restore but keep giving me same error.

    So I pulled out harddrive and plugged it in to my other laptop.
    but it shows as single drive. I tried formatting in windows but its keep getting error.
    I have original windows vista 32bit but its also giving me problem.
    feels like harddrive is locked by sony.
     
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  4. joon82

    joon82 Notebook Consultant

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    i always ran fdisk when i had this problem on my old desktops
    but dont know how to run fdisk anymore.
     
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  5. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    It is NOT locked by Sony. It can't be locked. It is a SATA drive though, does your other laptop support SATA?

    Gary
     
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  6. joon82

    joon82 Notebook Consultant

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    yes my other drive support sata(gateway 6831). I think something went wrong with partition. I think need to find windows xp or 98 fix it.
     
    joon82, Aug 11, 2008
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