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Before Use

Non-printed Documentation

❑User Guide (this manual) — Contains features of your computer. It also includes information about the software programs included with your computer, as well as information on solving common problems.

❑Specifications — The online Specifications describe the hardware and software configuration of your VAIO computer. To view the online Specifications:

1 Connect to the Internet.

2 Go to the Sony online support Web site at http://esupport.sony.com/EN/VAIO/ for customers in USA,

at http://www.sony.ca/support for customers in Canada, or at http://esupport.sony.com/ES/VAIO/ for customers in Latin American countries or areas.

❑VAIO Recovery Guide — Provides information about restoring individual software programs, software drivers, and drive partition(s) or your entire hard disk drive to the original factory installed settings.

To access this on-screen guide:

1 Click Start, point to All Programs, and click VAIO Support Central.

2 Click VAIO Documentation.

3 Click VAIO Recovery Guide.

❑RAID Guide (Selected VGN-AR200 Series models only) — Provides an overview of RAID systems and the various RAID levels (or types) that can be configured with your VAIO computer. It lists detailed procedures for using the RAID Recovery program to configure the hard disk drives, change your computer's RAID array, or to remove the RAID configuration.

To access this on-screen guide:

1 Click Start, point to All Programs, and click VAIO Support Central. 2 Click VAIO Documentation.

3 Click RAID Guide.