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Recovery discs for Sony Vaio
maryb
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I'm hoping someone will be able to reassure me.
I'm fairly disciplined about backing up my computer. But imagine my horror when I realised that I had not actually got round to making a set of recovery discs for my laptop when I replaced it six months ago - bad me! It's a Sony Vaio running Windows 8.1 Sony don't supply recovery discs but there is a utility to enable to to burn a set of discs for yourself.
However when I tried to burn a set of recovery discs, the utility crashes. It's definitely the software not the discs, it gets stuck on initialising or I get a "this program has stopped working" message. I've tried downloading anything relevant from the Sony support website but nothing makes any difference. I did a system restore in case anything was interfering but that made no difference. Nor did temporarily disabling antivirus, which I have often found helpful.
Am a bit worried about this to put it mildly. I have made a system image on an external hard drive but I don't know if that would be as good as a set of recovery discs. I know it's better in some ways because it would keep all the programs I have installed since getting the laptop. But I find it helps to do a clean reinstall of Windows every now and then and I don't think I can do that without recovery discs.
Does anyone know?
I'm fairly disciplined about backing up my computer. But imagine my horror when I realised that I had not actually got round to making a set of recovery discs for my laptop when I replaced it six months ago - bad me! It's a Sony Vaio running Windows 8.1 Sony don't supply recovery discs but there is a utility to enable to to burn a set of discs for yourself.
However when I tried to burn a set of recovery discs, the utility crashes. It's definitely the software not the discs, it gets stuck on initialising or I get a "this program has stopped working" message. I've tried downloading anything relevant from the Sony support website but nothing makes any difference. I did a system restore in case anything was interfering but that made no difference. Nor did temporarily disabling antivirus, which I have often found helpful.
Am a bit worried about this to put it mildly. I have made a system image on an external hard drive but I don't know if that would be as good as a set of recovery discs. I know it's better in some ways because it would keep all the programs I have installed since getting the laptop. But I find it helps to do a clean reinstall of Windows every now and then and I don't think I can do that without recovery discs.
Does anyone know?
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You could use the Windows recovery drive maker (although you'll need a USB stick, it won't do it to discs). Type "recovery" from the start screen and click 'create a recovery drive'Squirrel!If I tell you who I work for, I'm not allowed to help you. If I don't say, then I can help you with questions and fixing products. Regardless, there's still no secret EU law.
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Thank you, I will investigateIt doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!0
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