
Total identified Windows installations: 0 Successfully scanned Windows installations. Here are several postings in the internet with potential solutions but no one helped me so far. starting Windows from there led to WinRE againįinally we have the cmd Window. * UEFI Firmware Settings -> led to the Vaio Care RescueMode screen which can be seen here e.g. * System Image Recovery -> no image points were detected -> back to Troubleshooting * Recovery Point Recovery -> no recovery points were detected -> back to Troubleshooting With cmd the C:\> drive can be initialized but Windows folder is not found (probably locked or hidden) * Automatic Repair -> couldn't be executed, log file on C.

Unlock the drive and try again.” It seems that the C: drive was locked after shrinkingthe partition with Easeus. “The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Proceeding with Troubleshooting * Recovery and Maintenance -> tried to start VAIO Care but couldn't access it -> back to Option Menu * Refresh PC -> led to the message afterwards I was brought to the Option Menue * Continue Booting -> led me back to the language selection * Turn-of PC and * Trouble Shooting ->

I immediately came obviously to the Windows RE environment : After I activated the shrinking via the Easeus I had to restart the notebook. I didn't use the Windows built-in partition tool because I still wanted to shift the part.6,īeing able to only extend part.7 for the final data partition. I then shrinked the Windows partition to 101GB with the Easeus Partition Master 3.0 to create another partition dedicated for data only. Partition 7: Recovery: 28 GB - OEM -> I created instead a Recovery USB stick and have now another prime partition Partition 6: Windows Recovery 350 MB (type OEM) Partition 3: EFI System Partition - 260 MB (type System) Partition 2: Windows RE - 1,4 GB (Type OEM) Partition 1: SONYSYS - 260MB (Sony Vaio tools, type OEM) The notebook has aĢ50GB SSD which had the following GPT partitions I have a Sony Notebook SVS13A3Z9ES with preinstalled Windows 8 which I updated to Windows 8.1.
