i think the VAIOS work in the same way as the new Lenovos. on those ones the "recovery cd" is in fact not a recovery cd but a program that ghosts a new xp onto your HDD using a system image from a hidden partition
It is likely the reason it failed is that this partition or the MBR is damaged
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