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Hi all.

I have a sony vaio. I also have the disk from sony with all the software on it. What happens is while loading, it stops and gives an error message " Error occured while creating recovery partition".
I sent a message to Sony, and they want me to pay then for help, because it is out of warrenty. I have also tried to install a XP OS from my other PC, and it stops in the same place. It was working fine until I tried to set it to factory specs. If it can be fixed, OK. If not I will get another one? Please help. Thanks.

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Hello,

I think the problem is that is installation disk is trying to create a separate recovery partition and you have allocated the entire disk to the primary partition. Try leaving 15GB of space unallocated when your are installing XP and see if it works.

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installing regular xp on a laptop should not try to create a recovery partition .
unless you are using a xp reovery disk maybe !

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I thank caperjack and rch1231 who replied. The cd drive is bad, and would not move right to complete set up.

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