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Can;t use recovery partition in sony vaio z520n/b

In my sony vaio I have a recovery partition but I reinstalled Vista and now I can not use recovery partition, but if I have Sony Recovery Center I could have made a recovery cd and from it install all from scratch, but how can I gat Recovery Center? I can't find it anywhere

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  • grze87 Apr 25, 2009

    Yes I did. One more thing that i did not mention. When I was using origianlly installed vista I also installed an Ubuntu. I learnt that Ubuntu moves MBR to the partition that it is insalled on. Might it be the reason why my recovery partition doesn't start?

  • grze87 Apr 25, 2009

    And yes I did try to hit f10 and I was moved to the new screen but there was written only

    [no-execute]


    enter->send                                                          esc->cancel

  • grze87 Apr 25, 2009

    If you ask about windows then I installed it on c. For Ubuntu I have made another partition in Ubuntu wizard.

  • grze87 Apr 26, 2009

    sony vaio z520n/b
    The problem is that most of those drivers from sony doesn't work, but I have got Polish Vista because I am from Poland so I hope that this is the reason why they don't work and I will simply install English Vista again. If nothing changes, then I will have to order CDs

  • grze87 Apr 26, 2009

    http://student.agh.edu.pl/~zelka/sony%20...

    this is what I see when press f10 it's in polish but it means:

    Edit Windows boot process options: Microsoft Windows
    Path:Windows\system32\winload.exe
    Partition: 3
    Hard disk: 1e0217
    [ /NOEXECUT = OPTIN         ]

    I found that NOEXECUTE is a parameter of boot.ini file. So if I change it somehow are there any chances it will work?

  • Jerry May 11, 2010

    What Sony VAIO model do you have?

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    On what drive did you install, c: or d:?

  • JDTec
    JDTec May 11, 2010

    Ubuntu may be the cause. The recovery partition is set to be accessed either by the Sony Recovery Wizard in the OS or by F10.

    The only recourse you have it to format the complete drive which will give you access to the whole drive. Or Partition the drive if you are going to use Linux on it.

    Then you would have to go to Sony's site to get the drivers.

  • JDTec
    JDTec May 11, 2010

    Have you tried to hit F10 while the computer is rebooting?

  • JDTec
    JDTec May 11, 2010

    Did you reformat the c: drive when you reinstalled Vista?

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If you go to sony's website and under drivers and support, put in your model number you should either be able to download the recovery software (which wont work if your recovery partition is gone) or order the recovery cds from them for a nominal fee (anywhere from 10 bux to 50 bux depending)...you can also call them to order the cds aswell or find out where you can download the software..usually the easiest option.

  • Anonymous Apr 26, 2009

    well you could change the winload.exe to point to the recovery setup file..if you know where it is...but i believe the option they wanted you to get to using an fkey is the recovery process..i would try different f keys startinf with f12 until one of those gets you into the recovery program..of course its possible that it doesnt exist.


    the language version should have no berring on the drivers working or not...aslong as you have the model number and operating system right they should work.

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