Toshiba Recovery issue

ospreyukospreyuk
edited November 2010 in Science & Tech
I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 running vista. The vista installation is not the original and I need to factory restore the system.
I do not have any disks, but the HDD recovery partition appears to be intact.

Pressing 0 at startup does nothing :(

Is there any other way to manually invoke the recovery process from the HDD recovery partition?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    There is not. If you have no disks, which are required for Toshiba's restore process, you will need to order them for a nominal fee from the manufacturer.
  • ospreyukospreyuk
    edited November 2010
    I just found this info on another site:

    YOU NEED ORIGINAL PARTITION WITH ORIGINAL FILE INSIDE D: & E:
    OTERWISE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RESTORE.
    YOU NEED E:\HDDRECOVERY FOLDER WITH ORIGINAL FILE INSIDE
    YOU NEED D:"WINRE" PARTITION WITH ORIGINAL FILE INSIDE.
    0-save all data you need in C: partition
    1-boot from vista dvd (not important which version)
    2-click install to start install process
    3-select expert mode to manage HD
    4-delete C: partition
    5-create a large partition and leave 10G free for later(vista dvd will
    call it C:)
    6-format this partition
    7-create a small partition about 10G on the remainig space
    8-format this partition too(vista will call it G:)
    9-close vista hdd tool (return in first window)
    10- click "restore boot"(i don't know how it call in english version)
    you need to boot the CMD console
    11- in cmd console go to e:\hddrecovery\oddfiles\tools
    12:type "imagex /apply d:/sources/boot.wim 1 g: " it will create a list
    of files and folders in G:
    13:go to g:\sources\recovery\tools
    14:type "hddrecogui" (it will open the gui process of toshiba recovery
    tool)
    15:follow the instructions of toshiba recovery tool
    16- enjoy the original factory settings
    17-now you can delete the ex-partition G: and expand C: partition with
    some disk manager program.
    18-CREATE THIS DVD-RECOVERY _
    GREATINGS
    -Ataru_ITA-

    Will post back with results. . . . . . .
  • ospreyukospreyuk
    edited November 2010
    Ok,
    The above resolution worked a treat, although I did change a couple of things. Instead of creating the temporary 10Gb 'G: Drive' and extracting the files there, I extracted them to a USB stick. Then I just ran the command from there and it was just like running from a recovery disk.
    The laptop is now back to factory settings and running perfectly.

    Woop!
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