Started the recovery again from scratch
Same procedure as described above
Disc 6 ejected
The system was re-booted
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
<<odd because the hard drive was re-formatted during the restore process>>
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and a spinning circle
“Getting devices ready 2%” counting up to 100%
“Getting ready”
“Restarting your PC”
Black screen
Vaio Logo
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black Screen with Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Completely black screen 5 minutes
Completely black screen 10 minutes
Completely black screen 15 minutes
Pop up
“Windows is now setting up the following items”
“Vaio Care (rescue mode)
Another pop up screen
“recovering”
“your computer will restart several times during the recovery process”
“installing ...”
Progress bar
New pop up
“Intel chipset device software installer has stopped working”
“Windows can check for a solution to the problem next time you go online”
“check online for a solution”
“close the program”
Clicked on close the program
New pop up
“An error occurred during software installation”
“the following program did not install completly:”
“Chipset driver Intel”
“This program was not installed completely. Click ok to...etc, etc. Error 505:77”
Clicked ok
New pop up
“restart computer”
Blue screen “restarting”
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Blue screen Administrator logo, spinning circle, “Welcome”
Back to black screen with “recovering” popup now 4%
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Pressed space bar
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Blue screen Administrator logo, spinning circle, “Welcome”
Back to black screen with “recovering” popup now 12%
Black screen “Operating System Not Found”
<<***** (facepalm)>>
Pressed Alt-Ctrl-Del
Black screen
Black screen “Operating System Not Found”
Powered off
Powered on
Black screen Vaio Logo and spinning circle
Blue screen Administrator logo, spinning circle, “Welcome”
Black screen
Pop up
“Install windows”
“Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation”
Clicked ok
Blue screen
“Restarting”
Black screen
“S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive detects Error.”
“Please consider to back up the hard drive.”
“Press any key to continue ...”
Blue screen
Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed
Error code: 0xc000000f
You will need to use the recovery tools on your installation media...etc..ets
Switches off
