help with vaio laptop

[JODEAL]

having problems with vaio laptop, approx 18 months old,basically dead as a dodo apart from the vaio logo appearing on the start up screen, someone suggested re installing the windows media centre disc, but the laptop came pre loaded and i did not actually get any discs with it, i should point out that i bought it from a sony centre and at the time assumed this was the norm, does anyone know if there is some sort of recovery gizmo installed that would allow me to reset the whole thing. any help is appreciated

jodeal

[Mickha]

If you didn't get any disks then there should be a recovery partition on your hard drive.
Do you have a manual that tells you how to do a recovery?
Doing a recovery will put your laptop back to it's original state and you will lose anything you have not backed up, including emails, software and anything added since you bought it.
Have you tried booting up into safe mode? Try pressing the F8 key on boot up.
I will have a look on the Sony web site for more information.
I need the model number to locate the correct information.
_http://support.vaio.sony.co.uk/knowledge/search.asp?site=voe_en_GB_cons
Try this web address and click on How can I restore my VAIO to its original configuration?
Although you might want to try other things before restoring it to its original configuration if you have anything on it that you wish to keep.
Try entering the BIOS and re-setting it to default.

[Robbo]

Errm, You should have created some recovery disks when you first got the PC, as it says in the manual.

That reminds me, where the hell did I put mine

[JODEAL]

thanks for the suggestions, there was indeed recovery partition, and someone has helped me fix the problem, again many thanks for the input

jodeal