Lack of Recovery Discs

Sony has designed and produced several models which present the impossibility of creating recovery discs without purchasing an external drive. As Sony does not supply the original recovery discs, a recovery partition is provided which can be accessed by pressing F10. However if the storage media fails, then the partition would be lost. This can present unprecedented issues. e.g. If a customer purchases an American unit and is residing in Australia, the customer cannot obtain recovery discs from Sony unless they are physically on American terra firma. Neither Sony Australia or the customer can order recovery discs for units which are purchased in America. Sony Electronics of America only ships parts and accessories to customers with a U.S. credit card billing and shipping address