SZ: How to restore hidden recovery partition

[biumoc]

I did semi-install from Recovery Discs and delete the recovery partition when purchsed SZ. Now I want to sell it and want to recover this hidden partition to the factory condition. How to do?

[Limpman]

in my knowledge there is no way you can restore or creat hidden partition in your hdd like they store.may be you can contact sony or give special offer to your buyer.

[adinu]

Well unlike an OS, you cannot just restore a partition after it's deleted. It's gone forever.

What you can do is provide the new owner with those recovery disks, so that he/she can restore their system any time they want.

[wuruoyu]

you can if you had make the Recovery DVD disks before the system is formated.

[Limpman]

you can if you had make the Recovery DVD disks before the system is formated.

hi wuruoyu can you teach us how to recored recovery partition in our hdd i also need.coz i change my hdd.so now i'd like to make hidden recovery partition. Thanks in advance.

[travisruhl]

can you teach us how to recored recovery partition in our hdd i also need.coz i change my hdd.so now i'd like to make hidden recovery partition. Thanks in advance.

If you made a complete backup of your recovery information on a dvd, you can put those in your notebook, and boot back up. Upon doing so it will ask you if you want to do a "complete restore"
What that means is all the restore information on your dvd backup will be used to recreate the recovery partition on your notebook. I have done this already and worked great.

[adinu]

you can if you had make the Recovery DVD disks before the system is formated

You seem to have missed the question here. He asked how to restore a "deleted partition", not how to restore the OS to it's factory settings.

[Limpman]

If you made a complete backup of your recovery information on a dvd, you can put those in your notebook, and boot back up. Upon doing so it will ask you if you want to do a "complete restore"
What that means is all the restore information on your dvd backup will be used to recreate the recovery partition on your notebook. I have done this already and worked great.

can you read the question carefully please !!!

[moshb]

well, in korea, just a visit to Sonystyle solve this problem

i would find a user with a same model and ask him/her to send u a copy of the recover DVD (If the user made it)

[SPEEDwithJJ]

You seem to have missed the question here. He asked how to restore a "deleted partition", not how to restore the OS to it's factory settings.

No, the poster is right. Restoring the system to the same exact factory settings (& that includes checking the create a recovery partition or something) will make sure that the whole system is restored to the way you 1st receive the laptop (& it means with all the bloatware & the recovery partition). By the way, you'll need to have made the recovery DVDs to do this.