But there's no disk because windows came preinstalled. What is my next step? Here are instructions found here for going back to factory fresh software instance for Toshiba laptops:. You are expected to make your own recovery discs with the supplied 'Toshiba Recovery Media Creator' utility.
Can you keep pressing F8 while the laptop is booting. Sometimes Toshiba modifies the boot options screen to add a 'repair' option or similar, which then boots from the recovery partition. After the toshiba splash screen goes away you will get the window asking if you want to repair windows.
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I don't have a recovery disc supplied with the purchase of this laptop. If the recovery partition of your Toshiba computer is corrupt or damaged, download Easy Recovery Essentials.
Download Easy Recovery Essentials for Toshiba. The Toshiba Recovery Wizard software presents several options to recover a computer, depending on the current setup available on your computer:. Depending on your computer model, your computer can either have the recovery partition already installed or have a recovery media already created, or both.
Newer models of Toshiba computers usually do not come with a disk, but you can create it at the first install of your system recommended! Toshiba computers with Windows XP come with recovery partition instead of a recovery disk especially for computer models until mid , but you can create the recovery disk using the Recovery Disc Creator software.
You can restore Windows using the recovery disc by following these steps. You can also restore it using the built-in partition follow the next set of instructions for this. You can use the recovery partition of your Toshiba computer called Hard Drive Recovery to restore Windows XP to its factory default settings:. This procedure erases all your personal files audio, video, pictures.
Backup your files before you continue! Select Recover to out-of-box-state Click Next Click Next again Wait for the process to finish and continue with the next steps to restart your computer afterwards. This procedure erases all your personal files! Click Yes or OK, at the Warning!
