i just got my sony S series and started to make my recovery disks and the dvd player said it was checking the disk and something went wrong. So,  the icon to start the “make the recovery disks” is now gone from the task bar and I can’t figure out how to find the vaio recovery wizard to make the disks.  I found the recovery wizard but that starts the whole reset the computer to factory settings deal which I don’t need.  Can someone tell me how to get back to the area where I make the backup cds / dvds.  Also , how do I make sure my dvd burner is actually burnning stuff.  I put a movie in and it worked fine and it reads cds fine also, but for some reason it didn’t like my dvd r.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please check if the dvd drive that u have supports both kinds of dvd’s i.e. dvd-r/-rw and dvd+r/+rw. While some dvdrw’s can write to both kinds of media some would write only to -r/-rw while some would write only to +r/+rw

thanks for the help.  my desktop sony supports all DVD formats.  Being as this new laptop is two years newer I just figured that it would work the same.  Your are absolutly correct I was trying to use plus R and my new drive only works with -r.  thanks so much for taking the time to reply.  it took sony support over an hour on the phone to help me figure this out.  man , i learn so much stuff playing with these toys.

ur welcome