Problem with Vaio Recovery discs..

[neos11]

I recently formatted the hard drive of my new Vaio FW-41E/H, after a failed attempt to upgrade from Vista to Win 7 with Sony's Win 7 upgrade discs.
In the process, the hidden partition was lost as well.

Now I have a blank NTFS formatted c partition only, with no operation system, and whenever I try to initiate the recovery process by using my Vista recovery discs, the error message "Copying of the folder failed" appears.

Any help would be appreciated..

[neos11]

Vaio Customer care suggested that the recovery disc might be damaged.

I am currently waiting for confirmation that they're going to send me a new set of recovery discs for free!

[Tobi2be]

But not much seems to be normal with Sony's Win 7 upgrade discs. In the german forum complaints like these are piling up as well ...

[neos11]

Well, the only reason that I intended to go back to Vista via the recovery discs was that the Win 7 kit provided by Sony does not allow installation of the supplement disk if the hidden partition is missing..

So it's a big mess up..

I still haven't received the confirmatory phone call by Sony's representative..

[neos11]

Problem was caused by defective disks, and is now solved with the help of Vaio Support Team, many thanks!!

http://club.vaio.sony.gr/clubvaio/gr/el/forum/viewthread?thread=66982&lastpage=yes