Click skip when it asks to save files (unless you skipped step one, then just follow prompts)ħ. Then you can try to reinstall your hard drive on the original PC. So, in this case, you can try to open your hard drive on another PC. Sometimes its your PC gets trouble rather than your hard drive. Save important files to external hard driveĦ. Here are 2 more ways for how to fix a corrupted external hard drive without formatting.

This will then start the process automatically, stopping periodically to prompt you to insert the next disk (recovery disk are created eitherġ. It then gave the option to restore factory image, which I picked and it will warn you that all files will be deleted. This will prompt you to save important files to external hard drive, I had already done this so I clicked the skip button. Right-click the drive you wish to format, and click Format. The it takes you to the next 3 options pick the first one, it says something like rescue wizard. Log into the computer in question with an administrator account. This was wrong, it took me to a bunch of options and none of them would recognize my disk. I thought “ ok recovery disk, I should probably pick recovery”. The disk and rebooted it takes you to a screen with two options: VAIO rescue or recovery win7 64 bit. There are a few options to pick before it will begin automatically and if you are like me then you won’t know which ones to pick and there are no posts on this anywhere. One, restart and it will begin automatically. I had already created my recovery disk (there are a million posts on how to do this) but when I looked up how to use my recovery disk the instructions simply said to insert recovery disk I had to reformat my sony vaio laptop because it got a win32 virus.

How to reformat hard drive in vaio