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Sony Vaio SVE1713Z1EB
My Vaio crashed for some reason and I could not start it again. So I decided to do a full system recovery without success
How do I run recovery from the recovery CDs I made?
I have just tried again as follows:
Pressed assist button
From the VAIOCare Rescue mode screen
Pressed F10 for “Recover or maintain your system”
Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed
Error code: 0xc000000f
You will need to use the recovery tools on your installation media...etc
Switches off
Inserted Recovery Disc #1 of 6
Pressed power button
Does not try to boot from the recovery disc but boots from the hard drive
Blue screen with “please wait” in the middle
Blue screen with an icon “Welcome”
Black screen with pop up “VAIO Care (Rescue mode)
Blue screen “your PC ran into a problem ... restart”
Just noticed to boot from the CD drive
Press the assist button
Insert Recovery Disc 1
Press F11
Sony Vaio SVE1713Z1EB
My Vaio crashed for some reason and I could not start it again. So I decided to do a full system recovery from the recovery discs without success. Got up popup on the last disc with error 818
Pressed Assist Button
Inserted Recovery Disc 1
Pressed F11 to run from CD drive
Black Screen with Vaio Logo
Choose the language - English US
Choose your keyboard layout - UK
Choose an option - Troubleshoot
Troubleshoot - Recovery and maintenance
Recovery Tool
Choose a target OS - Windows 8
“Please wait while Vaio Care rescue mode is starting”
Select English and start Vaio Care (Rescue Mode)
Start Recovery Wizard
Skip Rescue
Are you sure you want to start recovery?
Yes I am sure
Formatting...
Restoring....
Inserted Disc 2
Inserted Disc 3
Inserted Disc 4
Inserted Disc 5
Inserted Disc 6
“An error occurred while executing an application”
“The operation was not completed. Shut down your computer. Then try the operation again after reboot”
“Error 818”
Started the recovery again from scratch
Same procedure as described above
Disc 6 ejected
The system was re-booted
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
<<odd because the hard drive was re-formatted during the restore process>>
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and a spinning circle
“Getting devices ready 2%” counting up to 100%
“Getting ready”
“Restarting your PC”
Black screen
Vaio Logo
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black Screen with Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Completely black screen 5 minutes
Completely black screen 10 minutes
Completely black screen 15 minutes
Pop up
“Windows is now setting up the following items”
“Vaio Care (rescue mode)
Another pop up screen
“recovering”
“your computer will restart several times during the recovery process”
“installing ...”
Progress bar
New pop up
“Intel chipset device software installer has stopped working”
“Windows can check for a solution to the problem next time you go online”
“check online for a solution”
“close the program”
Clicked on close the program
New pop up
“An error occurred during software installation”
“the following program did not install completly:”
“Chipset driver Intel”
“This program was not installed completely. Click ok to...etc, etc. Error 505:77”
Clicked ok
New pop up
“restart computer”
Blue screen “restarting”
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Blue screen Administrator logo, spinning circle, “Welcome”
Back to black screen with “recovering” popup now 4%
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Blue screen Administrator logo, spinning circle, “Welcome”
Back to black screen with “recovering” popup now 12%
Black screen “Operating System Not Found”
<<***** (facepalm)>>
Pressed Alt-Ctrl-Del
Black screen
Black screen “Operating System Not Found”
Powered off
Powered on
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Blue screen Administrator logo, spinning circle, “Welcome”
Black screen
Pop up
“Install windows”
“Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation”
Clicked ok
Blue screen
“Restarting”
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Blue screen
Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed
Error code: 0xc000000f
You will need to use the recovery tools on your installation media...etc..ets
Switches off
I must say I am not impressed with Sony. Buy a computer for £1000 and it crashes after only four months and then the recovery discs you spent hours and hours cutting, make you spend days and days in frustration because they do not work
Hi gamorgan, there are a few updates available for your Vaio but as you can not start your Vaio then that is not much help now.
Probably best to contact the Sony support team it sounds like your recovery partition may be corrupt and or possible even a HDD problem.