Hi all,

I have a Sony PCG-7F1L laptop. I noticed that is has a hidden
partition. Is it possible to do a factory recovery of the operating
system with a special boot mode? The OS is messed up and
I need to reinstall. I was hoping I could do that with a special
start up routine.

thanks,
charles....

***** charles wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Sony PCG-7F1L laptop. I noticed that is has a hidden
> partition. Is it possible to do a factory recovery of the operating
> system with a special boot mode? The OS is messed up and
> I need to reinstall. I was hoping I could do that with a special
> start up routine.
>
> thanks,
> charles....
>
>

This is model VGN-FJ170/B, the Sony support page is
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/mod...mdl=VGNFJ170B#

In the Faqs check Knowledge Article C395689 - restoring using the
recovery wizard, which you should find on the C:\ drive. It is likely
that you can purchase the recovery disks since this is a relatively new
model.

Q

"Quaoar" <quaoar@marcabfleet.com> wrote in message
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> ***** charles wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a Sony PCG-7F1L laptop. I noticed that is has a hidden
> > partition. Is it possible to do a factory recovery of the operating
> > system with a special boot mode? The OS is messed up and
> > I need to reinstall. I was hoping I could do that with a special
> > start up routine.
> >
> > thanks,
> > charles....
> >
> >
>
> This is model VGN-FJ170/B, the Sony support page is
> http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/mod...mdl=VGNFJ170B#
>
> In the Faqs check Knowledge Article C395689 - restoring using the
> recovery wizard, which you should find on the C:\ drive. It is likely
> that you can purchase the recovery disks since this is a relatively new
> model.
>
> Q

Recovery Wizard gone. C: drive reformated. Installed XP Pro from
scratch. Problem was it wouldn't go to secure websites. Went through
a lot of tech support ended up reloading from scratch which fixed the
problem.

thanks.....