68 Getting Started
Hard Drive Recovery Utilities
Recovering the C: partition with a user specified size
Resizing and recovering your C: drive to its factory default setting
reformats all partitions on the HDD (for example, if you created a D:
drive, it will be deleted during the recovery process) and your
information will be lost. Be sure to save your work to external media
first.
To resize and recover your C: drive:
1On the Toshiba Recovery Wizard screen, select Recovery of
Factory Default Software, and then click Next.
2Select Recover to a custom size partition.
3Specify the size of the C: drive. Click the up/down arrows to
increase/decrease the C: drive size in 1GB increments.
The size of the C: drive will display on the progress bar as you make
your selections.
4Click Next to begin the restoration. Once complete, a message
displays that the HDD has been recovered.
5Press any key on your keyboard to restart the computer.
Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the Recovery media
If you need to recover your computer to its default factory state, you
can rebuild the system using your Hard Drive Recovery Utilities.
To recover your hard disk drive using the utilities burned to DVDs
(refer to “Creating Recovery DVDs” on page62):
1Insert the first recovery DVD into your optical drive and power
on the computer.
2When the initial screen displays, press F12.
The boot menu appears.
3Using the arrow keys, select the DVD option and press Enter.
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