Vaio Care Recovery on SSD with Recovery Partition?

I cloned the content (3 partitions ssector by sector) of my original VCPF13 HDD to my new SSD. Win7 starts perfectly.

But even though I tried to do a Recovery with pressing F10 (Vaio Care Recovery) directly from the recovery partition on my SSD. Vaio Care Recovery starts BUT hangs after creating rescue data. Does anyone know a fix for that? If I leave the original HDD in my VCPF13 Vaio Care Recovery does not hang.....

 

Instead of clone the partition yourself, use the Original SSD and the Vaio Care to create recovery DVDs.

Then put on your new SSD and use th recovery DVDs to recreate the recovery partition for you.

 

You mean change to the original HDD, create some Recovery DVDs, put the HDD out and the new (smaller) SSD in and recover? (to create the hidden recovery partition...?)

 

Yes, sixthday means for you to not clone your HDD to SSD. Instead use the HDD to create recovery discs. Put the SSD back in and then install the system from the recovery discs.

For the future, I wonder if a sector clone would be a good idea as oppose to making a system image of the HDD and restoring it to the SSD. That, though, would require a 3rd drive. Ugh

 

Ok, I will try - recover from HDD, then creating the recovery discs an back to SSD via the discs. The Win7 partion is originally 450 GB. I hope during the recovery process Vaio Care would resize it. My SSD has 90 GB...

 

Doing a system recovery is the same thing as installing your operating system.

So, when you use the Recovery discs to setup your SSD, it'll make your C: the remaining space on the drive.

 

OiIz does not work I created two sets of DVDs and both of them hang after the qurstion to rescue data. So I click No,thanks for the next step to start the recovery I took a photo of that.s. I can move the mouse over the screen...but nothing happens...

 

Maybe you need to give Sony Support a call and ask for warranty?
Since the Recovery DVD method is their official way to restore the drive.

See the details here:

How to use VAIO Recovery Center : Useful Information : Sony Asia Pacific

 

I'd like to see the photo that you took. It will help me understand where you are at and what's going on.

 

How can I post the images here? I took the photos with my smartphone...via eMail?

 

pending photo

 

Im having a very similar problem in a Vaio VPCEB3E8E.

I created the rescue discs from the original hdd right when i first started the vaio. Then i took the hdd off and mounted a Intel X-25M 80GB SSD. Then i booted the rescue discs and it hangs after i choose what backup options i want.

I have formatted the ssd and set it to primary partition and boot flag. The Vaio rescue soft detects the ssd in the hardware information tool but it never starts the rescue!

Im pretty sure this crappy vaio care rescue soft doenst work with SSDs...

 

Did anyone get anywhere with migrating to an SSD and keeping the Recovery partition in working order?

I have tried disk to disk imaging and cloning using different tools, Ghost, Easus, Acronis, all the same results...

1) Windows 7 starts fine and recognises SSD (auto configs TRim etc).
2) Recovery via usb, dvd & hard drive partition all hang.
3) splashtop browser hangs at a page load error.

I have tried backing up and restoring the MBR and track zero using mbrtool but that doesnt fix it.

Sony may well have deliberately stopped this upgrade path so that you are forced to buy their SSD models or do a clean install and lose the recovery ability. I noticed that the SSD models have a different version of Vaio reovery that checks the model number on install.

However that doesnt explain why splashtop browser would also hang at loading.

any ideas? I would like to have splashtop, recovery and win7 on an SSD on this VPCEB model.

thanks

 

On my old TZ I had a similar issue. I got round it bu using Acronis true drive image to clone the original drive. It took a few hours but worked fine.

I don't know if this will apply to Z13 but its just another option that you can try.

C.

 

I tried Acronis True Image already, it doesnt work, both Splashtop and the Recovery methods hang, Win7 is ok.

The only method i havent tried yet is Win7 builtin backup to image, I dont hold out much hope for that though if Acronis, Ghost and Easus have all failed.