topic Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem in PCs & Accessories

Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

Dawido85 — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:27:03 GMT

Hi all, I've got my vaio about week ago with windows mce. It's alright but I wanted to create recovery kit with vaio recovery utility and then came a problem. Vaio utility gives me a dialog box:

"Cannot start VAIO Recovery utility becouse the recovery partiotion has been deleted.

You need to use the Recovery Media Kit to recover your computer or restore the recovery partition.
For details, refer to the instruction manual."

I would like to use my recovery kit but I didn't have chance to do it

Can I restore the partiotion? How?

In Partition Manager 8 Pro from paragon I see hidden partition so it isn't deleted

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

rich912 — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:40:26 GMT

Hi Dawido85 and welcome to the forum.

Have you by any chance installed Norton GoBack? If so you will need to temporarily uninstall this in order to create your recovery media.

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

Dawido85 — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:49:28 GMT

Hi Dawido85 and welcome to the forum.

Have you by any chance installed Norton GoBack? If so you will need to temporarily uninstall this in order to create your recovery media.

Hi Rich912, I didn't install Norton GoBack. I've already tried to unistall other norton stuff and acronis true image but that didn't help

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

rich912 — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:14:24 GMT

Hi Dawido85

Try the following

Start or restart your VAIO.
When you see the Sony logo, press F2 repeatedly to enter the BIOS.
Press F9 to restore the default values.
When asked to confirm, press ENTER.
Press F10 to save the configuration and exit the BIOS.
When asked to confirm, press ENTER again.

After re-starting, Click Start, All Programs, VAIO Recovery TOOL, VAIO Recovery Utility....

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

Dawido85 — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:22:46 GMT

Hi Dawido85

Try the following

Start or restart your VAIO.
When you see the Sony logo, press F2 repeatedly to enter the BIOS.
Press F9 to restore the default values. 
When asked to confirm, press ENTER.
Press F10 to save the configuration and exit the BIOS.
When asked to confirm, press ENTER again.

After re-starting, Click Start, All Programs, VAIO Recovery TOOL, VAIO Recovery Utility....

I did all steps but without any results

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

kee-lo_ — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:42:05 GMT

Do you have any recovery media?

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

rich912 — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:33:15 GMT

Do you have any recovery media?

I would like to use my recovery kit but I didn't have chance to do it smile

Hi Dawido85,

I have escalated this to Vaio-Link as none of the usual solutions work in your case…

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

Dawido85 — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:23:02 GMT


Hi Dawido85,

I have escalated this to Vaio-Link as none of the usual solutions work in your case…

thanks man

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

rich912 — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:35:06 GMT

Hi Dawido85,

Check your private messages...

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

Dawido85 — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:25:34 GMT

checked

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

kee-lo_ — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:50:31 GMT

LOL rich thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

rich912 — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:59:42 GMT

LOL rich thanks for pointing that out.

Pleased to note that I am not the only one that misses salient points whilst scanning posts

Let us know how things progress Dawido85.

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

kee-lo_ — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:08:30 GMT

I'm really bad for it.

Re: Vaio vgn-fe31m hidden partition problem

Dawido85 — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:28:01 GMT

LOL rich thanks for pointing that out.

Pleased to note that I am not the only one that misses salient points whilst scanning posts

Let us know how things progress Dawido85.