recovery DVD

[gopisvara]

im just a bit confused what acually is a recovery DVD, cuz my pcg-grt915m came with a recovry disk which i have used once which had loadsed windows and put it to its state wen i first got it....:S

[tonybeard]

It is a Recovery DVD because of the amount of data it holds is too much for a CD. It would be wise to buy a good quality blank DVDR and make a copy of your Vaio recovery disk incase the dog eats it or it will cost you £55.00 for a replacement. The other good idea is to keep all your document files, settings and explorer favorites and Vaio updates on the D drive and just recover the C drive. Finally the recovery disk only replaces the original Vaio package of programs not anything you have installed in addition to this.
Shame that........................

[Eugenepang]

aha.. for some of us our vaio didnt came with recovery cd or dvd, its all inside the vaio in a hidden recovery partition (in the harddisk), so we are advise to burn out the recovery cd/dvd ourself. And some people didnt realize about this and formated thier hard drive thus deleted the recovery partition so they will had to buy a copy of recovery cd/dvd from sony.

Its your vaio is came with a recovery cd then there is no need for you to burn another copies and i dont think there is a recovery partition in your hard drive, just kept the recovery cd safe.

[tonybeard]

OK all Vaios are partitioned into C and D drives, correct? So why would they put the recovery disk files on the C drive???? so inexperienced users would reformat and wipe their essencial recovery programs.

[Eugenepang]

no they didnt put it in the c:drive.. its in a hidden partition.. which means all new vaio's (i think) will had c:, d: and hidden partition for recovery software, which is normally about 7G (even tho it only uses about 4G).

Example my vaio A317S which supposed to had 100G HDD

C: drive - 27.9G
😧 drive - 58.2G

hidden partition - 7G (and i check it out the software only uses 4G)

[kee-lo_]

Yep you're right Eugene it's hidden and it's around 7GB

[tonybeard]

So you can't wipe the hidden partition? right.... no worries..... I'm going to make a cup of tea

[kee-lo_]

You can if you wanted to.
But you have to do a full recovery to do it