Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I got my husband (who's alot better than me, in computers) to help me out. Somehow, Vaio came alive with it's Vaio logo, as I switched it on yesterday. We both got so excited & just installed a winXP prog. belonging to our Medion computer in (German language). It worked but does not read the original Vaio Recovery CD. Do you know if I need any start program on the hard drive to start the Recovery CD? Thank you.