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Recovering your VAIO system

This section describes how to recover your computer system.

Before starting the recovery process

What is a system recovery?

A system recovery is to restore your computer to its factory state. Perform a

system recovery in the following cases:

❑ Your computer has been infected with a computer virus.

❑ Your computer has been unstable.

❑ Your computer system is experiencing problems which cannot be solved

through troubleshooting.

You can recover your computer system from the hard disk drive (recovery

partition) or recovery discs. You can also create your own recovery discs.

What is a recovery partition?

A recovery partition contains data for a system recovery and an application

recovery on the hard disk. Normally, you cannot modify or delete the data on

this partition. You can, however, modify or delete the data with commercially

available software applications designed to modify partition information. The

data modification or deletion may disable a system recovery.

Recovering your computer system can restore the preinstalled software only (except

certain software). It cannot restore software applications that were installed on your own

or the data you created after purchase.

Recovering your computer system cannot restore only the Windows operating system.

Certain preinstalled software applications include options to uninstall or install them. Note

that the software applications installed or uninstalled by using such options may not work

properly on your computer.

Installing a software application to modify partition sizes may disable a system recovery or

recovery disc creation. Be sure to create recovery discs immediately after the computer is

ready for use. See

“Creating your own recovery discs” on page 18.

Note that recovering your computer system will delete all the data on the hard disk even if

the hard disk is encrypted with the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker)

feature.

It may take several hours to complete the recovery process.

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