topic Re: Recovery CD - PCGN505SN in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150238#M103755 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Welcome to the forum Ed.<BR /><BR />As this model does not have a hard drive recovery partition, I am afraid that your only option is to purchase a set of recovery disks from Sony - £50+ I believe, assuming that you need/want the Sony software that is.<BR /><BR />If you are not interested in any of the bundled Sony software you could always install your own copy of Windows and then download and install any necessary drivers and utilities from Vaio-Link.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:45:28 GMT rich912 2005-10-15T14:45:28Z Recovery CD - PCGN505SN https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150237#M103754 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi!!! My cleaning women thrown away my recovery cd for my vaio-notebook PCGN505SN - I have a bad virus...and want to install everything new...How know what to do....<BR /><BR />many thanks<BR />Ed<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:34:02 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150237#M103754 Eddie_704 2005-10-15T14:34:02Z Re: Recovery CD - PCGN505SN https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150238#M103755 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Welcome to the forum Ed.<BR /><BR />As this model does not have a hard drive recovery partition, I am afraid that your only option is to purchase a set of recovery disks from Sony - £50+ I believe, assuming that you need/want the Sony software that is.<BR /><BR />If you are not interested in any of the bundled Sony software you could always install your own copy of Windows and then download and install any necessary drivers and utilities from Vaio-Link.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:45:28 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150238#M103755 rich912 2005-10-15T14:45:28Z Re: Recovery CD - PCGN505SN https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150240#M103756 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.se/html/@28BE23B0C20952FC3409403FD1AA84A7/images/smilies/056.png" alt=":cry:" title=":cry:" /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.se/html/@28BE23B0C20952FC3409403FD1AA84A7/images/smilies/056.png" alt=":cry:" title=":cry:" /> there is a viao recovery tool in programs that will do it<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:45:34 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150240#M103756 jintyflin 2005-10-15T14:45:34Z Re: Recovery CD - PCGN505SN https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150242#M103757 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote"><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.se/html/@28BE23B0C20952FC3409403FD1AA84A7/images/smilies/056.png" alt=":cry:" title=":cry:" /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.se/html/@28BE23B0C20952FC3409403FD1AA84A7/images/smilies/056.png" alt=":cry:" title=":cry:" /> there is a viao recovery tool in programs that will do it<BR /></PRE><BR />Not on this model:smileysad:<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:47:51 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150242#M103757 rich912 2005-10-15T14:47:51Z Re: Recovery CD - PCGN505SN https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150243#M103758 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The only thing you can do is call VAIO-Link, hopefully they'll have one.<BR /><BR />That model is heading on 5 years old, so I hope they still have them in stock<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:34:25 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-cd-pcgn505sn/m-p/150243#M103758 kee-lo_ 2005-10-17T14:34:25Z