placnx Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 I have a VAIO VPCEA16FH running Win 7 64-bit but can't get the Repair Disc to work. A CM shop wiped the HD and installed a circa 2011 Win 7 Home Edition, so there could be hundreds of Windows updates to replace. Horrible!! I have a System Image from a week ago, but going through the Control Panel the system cannot locate the System Image on a USB external drive. I have renamed the computer back to its name before the shop wiped the disk. I cannot figure out which F button to push on boot to get to a menu for copy back the System Image. Maybe I need a System Repair Disk, but so far have not gotten any to work. Maybe the ones I found are for a Win 7 32-bit computer. Not sure. Is there any really professional shop in CM to assist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropo Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 I know it's a bit late now, but when you get it running again, use Macrium Reflect Free to make backup system images and ad a recovery boot menu option and also a recovery USB flash drive. It has save my a** many times. No matter what your problems, you're never more than about 20 minutes or so away from a working system again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomSand Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 I had the exact same problems with a Z series VAIO running Win 7x64. The backup made within windows failed. I think it's because Sony do a non-standard partition setup... I think it's something like 100MB System, then mostly C Drive, but with multiple gigabyte hidden on a third volume for "VAIO Recovery Center" to do a factory image which includes the bundled Media Apps. It's to do VAIO Care (My old laptop had it on a button). A regular Windows DVD will, on a blank hard disk, make a 100MB hidden partition and then use the rest as the "C" drive. So the error occurs when Windows Backup can't apply a 3x parted backup to a 2x parted disk. Oh, for advance options, on startup, it's F8 https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17419/windows-7-advanced-startup-options-safe-mode Now I use Reflect. Much easier. It works! If you had backed up the Vaio (Factory install) with Reflect then you'd be able to restore. Sorry, I know that's no use now. Ref: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sony+vaio+hidden+partition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropo Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I had the exact same problems with a Z series VAIO running Win 7x64. The backup made within windows failed. I think it's because Sony do a non-standard partition setup... I think it's something like 100MB System, then mostly C Drive, but with multiple gigabyte hidden on a third volume for "VAIO Recovery Center" to do a factory image which includes the bundled Media Apps. It's to do VAIO Care (My old laptop had it on a button). A regular Windows DVD will, on a blank hard disk, make a 100MB hidden partition and then use the rest as the "C" drive. So the error occurs when Windows Backup can't apply a 3x parted backup to a 2x parted disk. Oh, for advance options, on startup, it's F8 https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17419/windows-7-advanced-startup-options-safe-mode Now I use Reflect. Much easier. It works! If you had backed up the Vaio (Factory install) with Reflect then you'd be able to restore. Sorry, I know that's no use now. Ref:https://www.google.com/search?q=Sony+vaio+hidden+partition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8Vaio Care and all the other bundled crap are just that - crap. I got rid of it all and now my Vaio works like a charm. Macrium Reflect rocks!!!Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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