How to create a recovery disc?

[1eyedjack]

I have a Vaio VGN-AR71J running Vista premium.
It has been misbehaving for the last few weeks (regularly crashing with blue screen of death, and running chkdsk when rebooting, usually finding and allegedly correcting corruptions in the file system, but never wholly solving the problem).
I think I need to reinstal the operating system (I have backed up all my data).
The machine came with no spare system discs, but the vendor assured me that there was a "clean" copy of the operating system saved in a separate partition of the main hard disc, and I am supposed to create a rescue disc from that partition and then reinstal from that rescue CD.
In the user guide I see the instructions about reinstalling from the rescue CD but I cannot find the instructions that say how to create the CD in the first place.
Sorry to be so dim.
Any helpful instructions please?

[1eyedjack]

Belay that. Found it. Instructions are simple now I found them, but they weren't exactly "in yer face".

[Thalamus.]

Hi 1eyedjack,

with most Vaio models you can create a set of recovery disc's by doing the following:

Click Start, All Programs, then Vaio Recovery Centre..

Click Continue on the User Account Control window

Select Create Recovery Disc then press Start..

[Thalamus.]

Belay that.  Found it.  Instructions are simple now I found them, but they weren't exactly "in yer face".

Seems our posts have crossed, glad you've found what you were looking for..

[1eyedjack]

Yes, but thanks for taking the trouble, anyway.

Confess I am a bit disappointed that there is no option to create a "recovery USB memory stick". I can, after all, configure the bios to boot from a USB stick as first priority, and I would only need one memory stick, and I would not be exposed to the fickle reliability of DVD drives with their moving parts and precision laser systems etc etc.

[Thalamus.]

You're welcome..

there is no option to create a "recovery USB memory stick".

I agree recovering from a usb stick would be useful..