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Sony Vaio Recovery Failed

  • 06-02-2009 3:12pm
    #1
    BoxOfTruth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    Hi guys. I replaced the hard drive in a friends Vaio laptop as it had died. After installing I ran the recovery disc which sets up the partition etc ok but it repeatedly fails at about 55% of copying the new files to the partition. I can hear the drive speeding up and slowing down as if its looking for a file. The only option available is to start from the begining again which I've tried many times. My guess is either the disc itself (looks ok) or the dvd drive is faulty. The laptop had XP Media Centre 2005, licence label still attached, but I only have the recovery system disc not an actual Media Centre disc. Anybody got a Media centre disk I could borrow to try or suggestions of a work around?

    Why is it always the favours that go wrong!!!


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  • #2
    BoxOfTruth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭BoxOfTruth


    I found a solution to this problem. Not 100% sure why this worked but...I booted the laptop with an old Windows 2000 disk. This gave me the option to install win2k which I selected. This first stage of the install gave me to option to delete the existing partitions which I did. Once deleted I cancelled the install and rebooted with the Vaio recovery disk. This time it worked perfectly first time!! Looks like the very first recovery attempt set up the partition incorrectly for some reason and all subsequent attempts must have just reused the existing "faulty" partitions.

    Hope this might be useful for someone in the future.


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