topic Re: use the recovery discs in PCs & Accessories

use the recovery discs

mauricetgol — Wed, 11 May 2005 12:34:18 GMT

Hi gentlemen,

I am a little curious. Normally I use Norton ghost to back up my pc's. On my nice and shining sony VGN-A295HP there was already a backup program installed. I followed the advise and made some recovery dvd¿s.

I still don¿t have to use them, but I am a little curious how it works.

Can I just boot from the dvd¿s and the recovery starts or do I have to use the F10 key during the boot?

Thanks Maurice

Re: use the recovery discs

Twisted-Rizla — Wed, 11 May 2005 12:36:36 GMT

Hi

Welcome to the forum:smileyhappy:

You should be able to stick the disc in the machine and boot up from there.

Re: use the recovery discs

mauricetgol — Wed, 11 May 2005 14:12:06 GMT

Thanks for the welcome!

That sounds super! I think that this is one of the reasons I trusted on SONY.

As I said I am a little curious...

So I dont have to change anything in the bios (boot sequence?), it always looks for a bootable disc? When the laptop boots the disc, there will come a menu to restore the backup? Can I try it once just for fun (without restoring the backup)?

I heard about the F10 function. Is this the button to get in the BIOS settings?

Sorry for all the question, but the laptop gives me a lot of fun, and I want to know as much as I can...

Re: use the recovery discs

kee-lo_ — Wed, 11 May 2005 14:35:45 GMT

Usually you have to make sure the boot sequence is correct, but once thats done it should work.

Re: use the recovery discs

Twisted-Rizla — Wed, 11 May 2005 15:09:30 GMT

I heard about the F10 function. Is this the button to get in the BIOS settings?

Yup, keep hitting it when you see the Sony logo on boot up

Re: use the recovery discs

kee-lo_ — Wed, 11 May 2005 15:19:53 GMT

Thought that was for the hard disk image - not for booting from DVD?

Re: use the recovery discs

Twisted-Rizla — Wed, 11 May 2005 15:29:58 GMT

Ah, in which case I think it's the F2 key you hit.