Recovery utility for SONY Vaio bundled software, based on the work of darxide_sorcerer as described at forum.notebookreview.com.

This script helps you recover all installers of bundled applications that are present on the recovery partition of your Sony Vaio notebook. If your system looks enough like mine, that is. To use it, you need a Debian-based linux live CD and an external hard disk with plenty of room.

This script requires booting a linux live CD and fiddling with the recovery partition of your Sony Vaio. Use it at your OWN RISK! If you are unsure how to proceed, then STOP NOW!

• Boot a live CD of a Debian-like system

  including Ubuntu or Mint; this may require setting your bios boot option to legacy instead of EFI

• Mount the recovery partition

  by double-clicking on 'Recovery' from the file browser

• Attach an external disk with plenty of disk space

  around 17GB required for app installers plus another 20GB when extracting (optional)

• Open a terminal window

  then change the working directory to your external disk and make sure you have write access, e.g.:

      cd /media/MyDisk
      mkdir recovery
      cd recovery
  

  Change 'MyDisk' to the label of your own external drive. Or simply type cd /media/ followed by two TABs to see your options. Note that you can inspect the amount of free space on your drive with df -h .

• Get this Makefile:

      wget https://raw.github.com/victorklos/recovaio/master/Makefile
  

• Now type make for your options or simply type make all and watch.

You are kindly invited to report unknown software. Please do so by providing the filename of the .wim file plus a short description stating what kind of software that particular installer provides. Also state if you want to remain anonymous as contributor. You can do this through mail, by issueing a pull request or through an issue.