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Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:52:34 GMT

Hi to you all, I'm a newbie.
Vaio VGN-FS515H. Dual layer DVD+-RW
Been trying to make media recovery disc but it keeps self ejecting at about 85% with "error on disc" before completion. Using DVD-R as per the manual. Any help please,-- ruined 4 discs so far.
Thanks.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Blencogo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:47:54 GMT

Hi Whiteyd and welcome.

The Sony burners are notoriously sensitive to the types of discs being used.

Try DVD+R and stick to the better quality makes like Sony, TDK, Verbatim etc.

Also make sure you uninstall any virtual disc software (like Daemon Tools) which can interfere with the Recovery Partition.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:09:20 GMT

Hi, Blencogo.
I've now used Verbatim DVD+R as you advised, and it worked perfectly.
many thanks for your help.
Whiteyd.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Blencogo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:14:31 GMT

Good News Whiteyd

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:54:07 GMT

Hi again.
Just an obsevation, but the booklet advised that two blank discs would be required to complete the process, however, the wizard advised that it was completed successfully and only 3gb of one disc has been used.Is it just that disc space requirement varies from machine to machine ?
Thanks.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Blencogo — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:25:21 GMT

No - I am fairly sure you should have two DVDs.

DVD 1 is the System Disc which contains the OS, Drivers and Utilities

DVD 2 is the Application Disc and contains all the preinstalled software (Adobe Acrobat Reader, Click to DVD, DVGate Plus, Memory Stick Formatter, Norton Ghost (Try and Buy), Norton Internet Security, Norton Password Manager (Trial), Roxio DigitalMedia SE 7, SonicStage, Ultimaco PrivateDisk Easy, VAIO Media, VAIO Update, WinDVD for VAIO)

To see what you have on your disc, have a look at the contents in Windows Explorer: -

Disc 1 (System Disc) will have files Sony.i01, Sony.i02, Sony.i03, Sony.i04 and Sony.img

Disc 2 (Applications Disc) will have files Sony.pac, Sony2.pac and Sony3.pac

From memory, when in the Vaio Recovery Utility if you select to make a Media Recovery Kit you need to choose which disc you want to make. I think you need to make one disc and then select to make a second - it only makes one at a time. Perhaps you have omitted to select and burn the second disc?

Hope so!

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:59:41 GMT

Hi Blencogo.
The disc I made, named itself RECOVERYDISC, and Contains 8 folders: APR, APR2, I386, RCD_CSTM, Sony, SUPPORT, Vaio Applications, VALUADD. None of the files are as you describe, but APR, & APR2 have sp---- pac (number) files.
Ive rechecked the manual and its description is similar to yours, naming up to 4 discs, also the wizard (I presume they are all the same?) gives only one option to create discs (from the recovery partition) and another different option to “recover your computer”with further options of its own (recover specific applications/create support folders) I guess something is not quite right.
I hope you can decipher this info’
Thanks.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Blencogo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:08:59 GMT

Hi Whiteyed,

I am confused. I think we need someone with an identical model who has a set of Recovery Discs so they can tell you how many etc.

Anyone with a FS515 out there?

You could phone Sony Support but it will be a premium phone line as you are out of warranty.

:smileyd_oh:

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:44:54 GMT

Hi Blencogo.
I will keep the “RECOVERYDISC” together with a Kaspersky ISO antivirus disc that I have made. I will also study some of the tutorials of how to make a “General” recovery disc, but at the moment they are a bit advanced for me. Meanwhile I will watch our thread to see if you get any response regarding you request.
Many thanks for your help.
Regards.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Thalamus. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:46:02 GMT

Anyone with a FS515 out there?

I have a couple of images from an earlier FS series recovery disc set if it helps..

Disc one - Auto named RECOVERYDISC (Recovery Disc) has 21 files and is 2.33GB

Disc two - Auto named RECOVERYDISC (application disc) has 8 files and is 2.17GB

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:16:01 GMT

Hi
thanks for the offer but i think it is very similar to the one I have.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:49:14 GMT

Hi. Thalamus.Thanks for your reply.
I messed up that last post. I was trying to attach a screenshot (bit of a novice) of my RECOVERYDISC, but it was too large, -- how did you do yours?. I found "how to attach screenshot" on one of the topics, but cant remember how I found it (searching is the only prob'with this otherwise great, and helpful site). Anyway, -- as I stated,- although I was only able to make one disc, 3gb, it appears to be similar to the ones you offer. If I can give you the S/shot maybe you can advise me further?
Thanks again.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Thalamus. — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:15:39 GMT

Hi Whiteyd,

I used Vista's snipping tool to capture the image I posted above..

Here is a link to the tread I think you're referring to:[GUIDE] How To Post A Screenshot

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:13:06 GMT

Hi Thalamus.
Hopefully an image of my RECOVERYDISC (3GB)is on screen. As you may have seen in the previous posts we were not sure if 2 discs should have been made. Can you tell if this disc will suffice?
Thanks.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Thalamus. — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:24:41 GMT

Hi Whiteyd,

could you provide an image of the contents of the APR & APR2 folders please.?

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:22:29 GMT

Hi Thalamus.
Contents of ARP, & ARP2, attached.
Thanks.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:25:31 GMT

Hi, sorry made a mess of that,here's the other one.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:27:41 GMT

We'll get there soon.

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Thalamus. — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:41:17 GMT

Hi Whiteyd,

to be honest it looks like everything is there BUT without having another set of recovery disc's for the exact FS515 model as your it's difficult to say for sure..

Unfortunately the only way to confirm if the disc will work correctly is to try using it to recover your Vaio..

Re: Making a Media recovery disc

Whiteyd — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:02:55 GMT

Hi again Thalamus.
I thought that might be the case, maybe someone with the same model will spot the thread.The wizard said it was complete so will have to trust it, & find out when,& if I need it. Is it ok to leave the disc on, as it seems to be getting a few downloads?
Thanks.