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Before using your computer.............................................. 14
Creating your own recovery discs........................................................ 16
To create recovery discs ............................................................... 17
Backup and Restore Center ......................................................... 18
To back up your data..................................................................... 18
To create a restore point ............................................................... 23
Backing up and restoring your data with the VAIO software................ 26
To back up your data with Rescue Data........................................ 26
To restore your data with VAIO Data Restore Tool ....................... 28
Restoring the preinstalled software or software drivers ....................... 29
To use Reinstall Programs or Drivers............................................ 29
If your computer does not work properly.............................................. 30
If Windows starts ........................................................................... 31
If Windows does not start .............................................................. 32
Recovering your VAIO system.......................................... 33
Before starting the recovery process ................................................... 33
Recovering your VAIO system when you can start Windows .............. 35
To restore the C drive.................................................................... 35
To restore your entire computer system........................................ 36
Changing the partition sizes ............................................. 38
About hard disk partitioning ................................................................. 38
Creating a hard disk partition ............................................................... 38
To create a partition with the Windows feature ............................. 39
To create a partition with recovery discs ....................................... 39
Erasing everything on your hard disk ............................... 40
Wipe and Erase Data ................................................................... 40
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