Creating the Recovery DVDs
When you first power on your PC, you will have to go through the motions of finalising your installation of Windows. This involves pairing the wireless keyboard to the PC, choosing regional settings and time zone, accepting Microsoft’s EULAs, enabling automatic updates, naming your computer, setting and Administrator password, registering with Microsoft (or not) and setting up your first user account. It doesn’t matter at all what you do with any of these settings for the purposes of this guide.
When you have booted into the operating system, you might see a balloon message in the system tray appear reminding you to create your recovery DVDs. It will belong to a tray icon that that is vaguely recognisable as a CD and a pen. Double click this icon (or select “VAIO Recovery Utility” from the “VAIO Recovery Tool” program group in the Start Menu) to activate the recovery application.