Sony PCG-TR2 quick start About the Vaio Recovery Wizard utility, Creating a Recovery Media Kit

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VAIO Recovery Wizard Utility

System and Application Recovery CDs are not supplied with your VAIO® computer. Your VAIO computer is equipped with the VAIO Recovery Wizard, a fast and easy-to-use system recovery utility. This system and application recovery utility enables you to recover preinstalled software programs, the operating system, and to create a VAIO Recovery Media Kit.

About the VAIO Recovery Wizard utility

❑Use the several recovery options to restore your preinstalled software programs and specific partitions on your hard disk drive.

❑Follow the instructions that guide you through several recovery options choosing the default selections or customizing your computer's recovery.

❑Discover the advantages of recovering your computer without using CDs or other external media.

❑Create your own Recovery Media Kit, using your purchased CD or DVD media.

Creating a Recovery Media Kit

You can create your Recovery Media Kit using CD or DVD media* that can be used if your system does not start. The Recovery Media Kit enables you to reclaim the space reserved for the recovery partition (approximately 5 GB).

For more information about creating the Recovery Media Kit, see the VAIO Recovery Options online guide:

1Click Start in the Windows® taskbar, and then click Help and Support.

2From the VAIO Help and Support Center, click VAIO Recovery Options.

*The number of CDs and/or DVDs required to create a Recovery Media Kit may vary, depending on the computer model purchased.

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