Recovery Partition.

I have a Sony Vaio laptop that came preloaded with Windows 8.1 64bit home.

I never did anything to the OS except all the updates, but now after 3-4
yrs the 'assist' button to open the Vaio Center or whatever it's called
so that I can make my recovery CD's does not work. I can't even get the
menu item to work. And by "work" I mean make the DVD's. The
program loads and I can get to the backup&recovery option as the manual
instructs me, but the only things on the page then are the options to
recover from the CD's and restore to factory settings. Obviously this
is what I want but I don't have those DVDs yet.

There are several partitions of ~500M on the drive. I'm sure one is
some program to do the work and one may be the image?

OEM Partition 260 MB
Recovery Partition 1.44GB
EFI System 260MB
Recovery Partition 833 MB
Recovery Partition 36.32 GB
C: partition 462.06 GB
D: Data 197.34 GB


Anyway since I can't get to it normally is there any way to get this
working so I can make my windows 8.1 CD's like I should have done on day
one when maybe everything worked?