Sony Vaio is one of the finest Laptop brands produced in the world of computers. Although it has stopped manufacturing the Vaio series of laptops, the company continues to provide services to its existing customers. When it comes to recovering data from Sony Vaio, you could rely on its inbuilt data rescue feature. However, this feature is only useful only if you have a backup of your data. Else, kindly refrain from using the laptop any further and continue reading the article to learn how to perform Sony Vaio data recovery.
Note: Follow the steps below to backup and restore the data using VAIO Care Rescue Mode( this method works on VAIO laptop working on preinstalled Windows 8 or 8.1 )
How to Recover Data from Sony Vaio Laptop?
- Restore Sony vaio laptop data with Rescue mode
- Recover Data from Sony Vaio laptop with Remo Recover
Restore Sony vaio laptop data with Rescue mode
- Press and hold the power button until it turns completely off.
- Now press the Assist button on the keyboard.
- Then click on the F10 key and select Recover or maintain your system option.
- In the Recovery tool screen, select Windows 8.
- In the VAIO care(Rescue Mode) screen, click on the Start Recovery wizard.
- You will be prompted with a screen to Rescue your data, confirm the other promoted dialogue box to backup the data.
- Once you have rescued the data completely, click on the Start Recovery buttons. Once the recovery is completed click on the Restart button.
How can I Recover Data from my Sony VAIO laptop?
Recovering Data which is completely missing from your Vaio notebook, without a rescue drive or a backup might seem tricky but it is not impossible. With a credible tool such as Remo Data recovery software, you can retrieve lost data on Sony Vaio laptops. By employing the Deep scan engine, software scouts the drive sector by sector and recovers data from Sony Vaio hard drive.
The tool is very advantageous in recovering data from all the Sony Vaio laptop series such as Sony Vaio SX, Vaio X series, VGN-TX2, and many more. The software not only recovers data from Sony hard drives but also Sony Memory stick PRO-HG Duo HX, Memory stick XD, and even Sony external hard drives. Also, you can make recover any data after disk format on your Sony Laptop
Steps To Recover Data Using Sony VAIO Data Recovery Software
Download and install the Remo File Recovery tool and follow the given steps below.
- Launch the application and choose the drive from which you need to perform data recovery on your Sony laptop.
- Click on Scan to start the recovery process.
- During the scanning process, click on the Dynamic Recovery View option to view the files recovered from the Sony Vaio laptop.
- While the scanning is completed the software displays all the recovered files from the computer in the Lost and Found Files folder or Lost Partition folder as and when they are recovered.
- After finding the lost files, double-click on the files recovered from the Sony Vaio laptop to preview them.
- Once you are satisfied with recovery select the files you want to recover and click on the Recover button to save them in the desired location.
Reasons behind Data Loss on Sony VAIO Laptop
- Battery backup is a major problem in portable devices, thus if you are performing long running process (like downloading, video to audio conversion etc.) with low battery backup and in between the process if the battery drains then there are possibilities that you may lose your data
- You may empty the recycle bin without noticing that it had some important files within it, thus if you have emptied it then you may lose all your precious data
- If you have lend your laptop to a user who is not well versed with the operations of the laptop then it is possible that the novice user can unintentionally perform task that can result in loss of files from the drive
- At times you may select bunch of unwanted data so that you can free some memory from hard disk, but while selecting the data if you unknowingly select important data and perform delete then this can result in loss of all the selected files
Conclusion
It is very difficult to predict any data loss scenarios. Even as the company continues to provide support for its old existing customers, Sony Vaio users still have to be cautious about their laptops and their performances. The inbuilt data restore tool may not be available on all its computers. Even if the feature is available, you can only restore if you have a backup. In case you do not have any backup data, use Remo File Recovery tool to recover data from Sony Vaio. Apart from Sony, you can also use the tool to recover data from Asus laptops.