https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-discs/m-p/1287282#M131300 Hi aidan_strachan and welcome to the Sony Users Community.<BR /><BR />Unfortunately, the Recovery Discs are not compatible with the newer Advanced Format hard drives. You cannot use the Recovery Discs unless the drive is formatted with 512KB Sectors - the newer AF Hard Drives are formatted with 4096KB Sectors to allow for more capacity in the same size drive.<BR /><BR />I don't think there is a way to recover the pre-installed software onto this HDD. It may be possible to reinstall onto a standard format hard drive and then make a Mirror Image which may then install onto the Advanced Format drive but it may not work.<BR /><BR />I suppose you have 2 choices - change the drive for a 512KB format drive (probably the maximum will be 500GB) or lose all the Preinstalled Software.<BR /><BR />Sorry for the bad news! Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:23:38 GMT Blencogo 2013-08-09T10:23:38Z https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-discs/m-p/1287244#M131299 <P>I have jusy fitted a Seagate 750g hard drive into my vaiao VGN NW20SF because the previous HD was corrupted, The recovery disc I created wont load because the new HD is to new and I need a newer version of windows 7. I have installed a newer version from a freinds copy with my windows 7 product key. If I now use my original recovery discs will it Re-install my Vaio &nbsp;Software or will it try to overwrite my newer version of windows 7?</P> Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:58:24 GMT https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-discs/m-p/1287244#M131299 aidan_strachan 2013-08-09T09:58:24Z https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-discs/m-p/1287282#M131300 Hi aidan_strachan and welcome to the Sony Users Community.<BR /><BR />Unfortunately, the Recovery Discs are not compatible with the newer Advanced Format hard drives. You cannot use the Recovery Discs unless the drive is formatted with 512KB Sectors - the newer AF Hard Drives are formatted with 4096KB Sectors to allow for more capacity in the same size drive.<BR /><BR />I don't think there is a way to recover the pre-installed software onto this HDD. It may be possible to reinstall onto a standard format hard drive and then make a Mirror Image which may then install onto the Advanced Format drive but it may not work.<BR /><BR />I suppose you have 2 choices - change the drive for a 512KB format drive (probably the maximum will be 500GB) or lose all the Preinstalled Software.<BR /><BR />Sorry for the bad news! Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:23:38 GMT https://community.sony.dk/t5/pcs-accessories/recovery-discs/m-p/1287282#M131300 Blencogo 2013-08-09T10:23:38Z