If do you decide to reinstall the OS from scratch, then make sure you have a reasonably upto date version of acronis (recommend version 5551), and do a full disk backup immediately to an external drive (it will save time if you have go back to original version). You would obviously lose any "free applications" that came with the PC but most of these are can be replaced with same or similar from the web often at no cost. In all honesty, you can buy a new W7 or W8 OS for as low as £50, and simply do a complete OS reinstall as you have probably lost all data for the last year anyway (unless you have backed up else where). If Vista or XP, it is probably not really worth trying to recover them (or the Sonysys recovery partition).
You do not say what version of windows you are using. If you are lucky, you might be able to recover it that way. Have you tried booting the laptop and entering the sony recovery facility (sony assist button on more modern vaios but could be f2 or f10 button I think). You do not say what versions of windows you are using, the other two partitions probably relate to that i.e the C drive. It is not a standard partition, and as far as I know acronis recovery should just place an exact copy back from where it started. The sonysys directory is designed to recover the sony back to its factory condition.
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