Problems With Sony vaio Recovery discs

vvvddd2003 · 07-23-2008, 09:19 PM

I have a two part problem using my system recovery discs. I have deleted my hard drive and am wanting to reinstall the laptop to factory settings.

I have a pcgfrv31 sony vaio laptop

First, when I ran the first disc, It stated "no system drive detected". I then clicked ok. Out of the three options to restore, two were not accessable leaving me with only the custom install option. I chose it and clicked ok.

after going through the options a status bar came up showing the progress and right before it got to the end I recieved this error. "Error occurred while partitioning. Error Code:4" I clicked ok and the laptop restarted.

The second problem is now when I try to use the discs I get an error stating the discs cannot be used on this computer and that I need to confirm the model type.

Any insight is appreciated.

**TriggerFinger** · 07-24-2008, 12:07 AM

are these discs the ones that came originally with the laptop?

vvvddd2003 · 07-24-2008, 07:47 AM

no discs came with this model. The discs were created off the recovery partition.

**TriggerFinger** · 07-24-2008, 08:20 AM

are the discs your only option? any other copy at hand? looks like this is not a laptop issue but a recovery disc issue.

07-23-2008, 09:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
vvvddd2003 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xpsp2	Problems With Sony vaio Recovery discs I have a two part problem using my system recovery discs. I have deleted my hard drive and am wanting to reinstall the laptop to factory settings. I have a pcgfrv31 sony vaio laptop First, when I ran the first disc, It stated "no system drive detected". I then clicked ok. Out of the three options to restore, two were not accessable leaving me with only the custom install option. I chose it and clicked ok. after going through the options a status bar came up showing the progress and right before it got to the end I recieved this error. "Error occurred while partitioning. Error Code:4" I clicked ok and the laptop restarted. The second problem is now when I try to use the discs I get an error stating the discs cannot be used on this computer and that I need to confirm the model type. Any insight is appreciated.

07-24-2008, 12:07 AM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: LV, NV, USA Posts: 5,326 OS: DOS 6.0	Re: Problems With Sony vaio Recovery discs are these discs the ones that came originally with the laptop? __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Everest Mark the THREAD as SOLVED

07-24-2008, 07:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
vvvddd2003 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xpsp2	Re: Problems With Sony vaio Recovery discs no discs came with this model. The discs were created off the recovery partition.

07-24-2008, 08:20 AM	#4 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: LV, NV, USA Posts: 5,326 OS: DOS 6.0	Re: Problems With Sony vaio Recovery discs are the discs your only option? any other copy at hand? looks like this is not a laptop issue but a recovery disc issue. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Everest Mark the THREAD as SOLVED