
Follow the on-line instructions to complete the process
Do the same for the rest of the DVDs/CDs, depending on how many are needed based on the notification of the VAIO software. Insert the first blank disk you wish to use into the drive of your computer. Choose either CDs or DVDs as your desired media to use. Choose the first option in this new window, to proceed with creating the recovery media, then select "Next". Select the option "VAIO Recovery Wizard". Launch the "Control Panel" window and choose "Performance and Maintenance" if you have enabled the Category View. Start your computer and log on to Windows OS. Close all programs and disconnect every peripheral device attached to your PC Get a CD-R or DVD-R/DVD+R with which you will use to create the recovery disk. This software is VAIO Care or VAIO Recovery Wizard, depending on the model of your PC and the version of your Windows.įollow these steps carefully in creating your Sony VAIO recovery disk: 1.
Sony VAIO has provided software that will assist you in this. However, you will see a recovery partition with which you can create a recovery media. When you purchase a Sony VAIO computer, you will not see a recovery DVD or CD.
How to Recover Data When Recovery Disk Won't Work and Computer Fails to Start. How to Use Created Recovery Disk to Restore a Sony VAIO Computer. How to Create the Sony VAIO Recovery Disk. Once installed you can safely delete the ‘Refresh Media Library’ folder. After it’s completed it will launch Media Center for you. Whenever you want to update the Media Center Library simply run the script form the shortcut on your desktop.Ĥ. From within the ‘Refresh Media Library’ folder double click the install.bat file (this will copy the needed files to your “Program Files” folder and drop the shortcut on your desktop).ģ. First download this zip file and extract the contents to your desktop.Ģ. You can launch it from an icon on your desktop, it will stop Media Center, flush the cache, then restart Media Center for you.
So I wrote a script to do it all for me, and seeing as I couldn’t find one anywhere else, I tarted it up a bit, and made it easy to install. However that is a pain, as when I’ve fired up Media Center it’s because I want to watch a film, or listen to some tunes, not start manually messing about with services and deleting cached copies of stuff. There is a convoluted method of stopping services, deleting files and restarting everything that will fix the problem. I use Media Center a lot, and the one thing that bugs me is, every time I add a new film or TV series etc, I have to restart Media Center, restart services, or reboot the entire media PC before I can see them in the list.Īfter some searching it appears that Media Center uses the same repository/database of media that Windows Media Player uses.