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    Urgent Help! How to do Partition Recovery for Sony SZ?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by deepblueKM, Jul 3, 2007.

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    deepblueKM Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,

    I accidentally shrink the extended volume to become primary partition.. now i encountered BOOTMRG is missing when booting into windows.. how can i use the recovery partition that pre-installed with my SONY SZ VGN-433?

    Please help or any guide to refer? Thanks....
     
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    deepblueKM Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just wonder why I couldn't get the information of how to use the recovery partition when I search through Sony and rest of the website.

    I even called my friend who using the same SZ model and he told me the recovery partition need to burn into disk for recovery then use a Sony pre-installed software to load the CDs.

    After I tried a several methods even used XP bootable disk to delete the "extra partition" which allocated as C drive, it didn't work it out for me.

    At the end, i tried to press the rest of the F Keys when booting (F2 is go to Bios) and F12 key (It is a key to load IBM recovery), it also prompted the loading of recovery for my Sony SZ. Finally, I recovery the OS with pre-installed softwares and it also had an option to resize the partition before it load.

    I am quite surprised I couldn't get a help on that from net even from Sony Vaio FAQ. :eek:
     
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