Sony Vaio Troubleshooting Manual page 4

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Contents
Saving the VAIO Info Centre on your computer .......................................................................................................................... 23
Recovering the operating system ...................................................................................................................................................... 24
Notes on performing a system recovery ....................................................................................................................................... 24
Starting the recovery ..................................................................................................................................................................... 25
Using partitioned drives ................................................................................................................................................................ 26
Recovering the system without changing partition sizes....................................................................................................... 27
Recovering the system with modified partition sizes ............................................................................................................. 28
Manually changing partition sizes........................................................................................................................................... 29
Resetting the default partition sizes ....................................................................................................................................... 30
Aborting the system recovery process .......................................................................................................................................... 31
Installing all applications.................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Installing individual applications ....................................................................................................................................................... 33
About utilities and libraries................................................................................................................................................................ 34
Installing drivers from the hard drive................................................................................................................................................ 35
Sony support options............................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Printed documentation supplied with your computer ..................................................................................................................... 36
VAIO Info Centre................................................................................................................................................................................. 37
Other sources of information............................................................................................................................................................. 37
Customer service ................................................................................................................................................................................. 38
What is VAIO-Link? ........................................................................................................................................................................ 38
Service background........................................................................................................................................................................ 38
Who can use VAIO-Link? ............................................................................................................................................................... 38
Registering your VAIO product..................................................................................................................................................... 39
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