OMG! Can someone please help me?!!

[Sunne]

Ok, I'm doing a Restore C: Drive. I'm sooo bummed. I don't have the Vista disk but I've got all day. I DO have the Vista recovery in the form of an .iso file so I can put it on my thumb drive. So, even though it says that it's going to delete all my personal files, it will actually save them in a folder for me?

And do any of you have any idea of what could have started all this?! I'm so paranoid about my pc that it really gets me that something like this could happen. Grrrr.

P.S. You guys really saved my tookus...phew.

We'll see what happens; Restore C: Drive is at 60%...

Sunne

And YES!!! I need to be walked through this! Arrrrgh!

 

[pooch]

Pooch, thanks for the advice; but I had a couple of questions...first, I kept pressing F10 at the Sony Logo screen and I got to the VAIO Recovery Center..YEY! However the "Restore C: Drive" looks pretty ominous. I don't have an external hard drive big enough for the "Rescue Data" function. If I do the Restore Complete System it says that the "new" drive will use all available disk space unless I create a second partition.

You will have to post your PC details I cant see the web site without and I do not know what you mean by "Rescue Data" function

How do I save my files, as you previously mentioned?

Unless it is written differently on the web page it should be done for you

How/should I create a partition?

You should not have to

 

[Sunne]

Pooch,

I waited for the logo to show up, then I pressed F10 until I got the Vaio Recovery Center. The Center had options such as: Rescue Data, Windows System Restore (which I tried to no avail), Restore C:Drive, Complete System Restore and Hardware Diagnostics. I ran the diagnostics first and the system said that there were no hardware errors. Then i tried the rescue data function and if I had about 6 GB of external memory then I could have transferred it; but I don't. So, now I'm trying the Restore C: Drive...it's already reformatted the hard drive and now I've got a windows screen up that is doing it's thing...(the little blue circle going round and round), now it's just restarted itself...looks normal...so far...holy cow!

I'm at the Welcome screen and it's reinstalling the software...this is overwriting the c: drive right? It's not creating another c: drive is it?

Sunne

 

[pooch]

Ok, I'm doing a Restore C: Drive. I'm sooo bummed. I don't have the Vista disk but I've got all day. I DO have the Vista recovery in the form of an .iso file so I can put it on my thumb drive. So, even though it says that it's going to delete all my personal files, it will actually save them in a folder for me?

And do any of you have any idea of what could have started all this?! I'm so paranoid about my pc that it really gets me that something like this could happen. Grrrr.

P.S. You guys really saved my tookus...phew.

We'll see what happens; Restore C: Drive is at 60%...

Sunne
Yes I hope it goes well
And YES!!! I need to be walked through this! Arrrrgh!

You are a bit to quick for me but I hope it goes well
Pooch

 

[Sunne]

what do you guys think the folder will be named? And should I open it? What if whatever corrupt files did this are in one of those folders? This is SO lame.

Sunne

 

[pooch]

Pooch,

I waited for the logo to show up, then I pressed F10 until I got the Vaio Recovery Center. The Center had options such as: Rescue Data, Windows System Restore (which I tried to no avail), Restore C:Drive, Complete System Restore and Hardware Diagnostics. I ran the diagnostics first and the system said that there were no hardware errors. Then i tried the rescue data function and if I had about 6 GB of external memory then I could have transferred it; but I don't. So, now I'm trying the Restore C: Drive...it's already reformatted the hard drive and now I've got a windows screen up that is doing it's thing...(the little blue circle going round and round), now it's just restarted itself...looks normal...so far...holy cow!

I'm at the Welcome screen and it's reinstalling the software...this is overwriting the c: drive right? It's not creating another c: drive is it?



Sunne

This is overwriting the C:\ drive yes

 

[Sunne]

Pooch,

I waited for the logo to show up, then I pressed F10 until I got the Vaio Recovery Center. The Center had options such as: Rescue Data, Windows System Restore (which I tried to no avail), Restore C:Drive, Complete System Restore and Hardware Diagnostics. I ran the diagnostics first and the system said that there were no hardware errors. Then i tried the rescue data function and if I had about 6 GB of external memory then I could have transferred it; but I don't. So, now I'm trying the Restore C: Drive...it's already reformatted the hard drive and now I've got a windows screen up that is doing it's thing...(the little blue circle going round and round), now it's just restarted itself...looks normal...so far...holy cow!

I'm at the Welcome screen and it's reinstalling the software...this is overwriting the c: drive right? It's not creating another c: drive is it?



Sunne

This is overwriting the C:\ drive yes

Oh, good. Ok, I'm afraid to open any of the old files now though...should I be?

 

[pooch]

Ok, I'm afraid to open any of the old files now though...should I be?

No I don't think so

You are looking for a file called .windows old it should be on drive C:\

 

[Sunne]

Ok, I'm afraid to open any of the old files now though...should I be?

No I don't think so

You are looking for a file called .windows old it should be on drive C:\

Ok, I had a lot of pictures of me and my family on it; any chance you think those might transfer over? Or are they gone too? Did I mention how bummed I am with all this?!

 

[pooch]

Ok, I'm afraid to open any of the old files now though...should I be?

No I don't think so

You are looking for a file called .windows old it should be on drive C:\

Ok, I had a lot of pictures of me and my family on it; any chance you think those might transfer over? Or are they gone too? Did I mention how bummed I am with all this?!

I am hoping that they are still there have you found this folder yet?

 

[Sunne]

No I don't think so

You are looking for a file called .windows old it should be on drive C:\

Ok, I had a lot of pictures of me and my family on it; any chance you think those might transfer over? Or are they gone too? Did I mention how bummed I am with all this?!

I am hoping that they are still there have you found this folder yet?

Well, it's still reinstalling all the software; it's 73% done with that at this point. I'm going to locate that folder as soon as I'm able to log on. So, this is basically as though I just got this pc out of the box, right? I have to configure all my logon's, passwords...etc...everything, right?

 

[dinesh]

Yes its like an out of the box.
Question: How are you reinstalling the OS? You said you do not have Vista DVD?

 

[Sunne]

Yes its like an out of the box.
Question: How are you reinstalling the OS? You said you do not have Vista DVD?

When I pressed F10 at the Vaio logo it brought me to a Vaio Recovery Center where it had the options I listed previously in the posts above. I clicked on "Restore C:Drive" and it said that it would delete all files but it would reinstall all pre-installed programs. Which is what it is doing now...no disk was needed apparently for my model of Vaio.

Sunne

P.S. Dinesh, thanks so much for your help!

 

[dinesh]

You are Welcome. I m happy to hear that you got a recovery partition given by Sony which will fix this issue for you.

 

[inc2000]

if it dont work lets make a nasty email to sony.

 

[Sunne]

if it dont work lets make a nasty email to sony.

Arrghhh! Everyone keep their fingers crossed that this works, I'm at 95% reinstalled right now...make that 96%...

Someone go outside and do a rain dance....

Sunne

 

[Sunne]

if it dont work lets make a nasty email to sony.

Arrghhh! Everyone keep their fingers crossed that this works, I'm at 95% reinstalled right now...make that 96%...

Someone go outside and do a rain dance....

Sunne

Pooch...where am I going to look and find that .old folder? My Vaio is starting up now and doing all kinds of positive things...almost there, I think...

Sunne

 

[pooch]

if it dont work lets make a nasty email to sony.

Arrghhh! Everyone keep their fingers crossed that this works, I'm at 95% reinstalled right now...make that 96%...

Someone go outside and do a rain dance....

Sunne

Pooch...where am I going to look and find that .old folder? My Vaio is starting up now and doing all kinds of positive things...almost there, I think...

Sunne

Click on computer, click on Vista C

 

[dinesh]

Open Computer and then go inside C: Local disk. There you may (may not) find a folder named Windows.old.

 

[Sunne]

Arrghhh! Everyone keep their fingers crossed that this works, I'm at 95% reinstalled right now...make that 96%...

Someone go outside and do a rain dance....

Sunne

Pooch...where am I going to look and find that .old folder? My Vaio is starting up now and doing all kinds of positive things...almost there, I think...

Sunne

Click on computer, click on Vista C

Ok, I'm just going through the basics of location, time and log in name/password...now it's check my "computer's performance"...

BRB....stay tuned!

Gosh, I really hope no one else has to deal with this...

Sunne