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Getting Started
Hard Drive Recovery Utilities
The system will prompt you to insert the appropriate number of blank
DVDs to copy the hard drive recovery. If your optical disc drive is not
writable, contact Toshiba Customer Support to obtain the Recovery
media for your system.
The Toshiba Customer Support Center in the United States is
(800) 457-7777, outside the United States it is (949) 859-4273.
To create recovery DVDs:
1Click Start, All Programs, Tosh iba , Recovery, and then
Recovery Disc Creator.
2Select DVD (to create Recovery media on DVDs).
3Select the items you want to copy by clicking the check box
next to the item’s Name—recovery files, applications (original
bundled drivers and applications), or both the recovery files
and applications.
4Click Create.
5Insert the first blank DVD into your writable optical drive
when prompted.
6Follow the on-screen prompts for completing the copy process.
For more information on using the Recovery media you have
created with the preceding steps see “Hard Disk Drive Recovery
using the Recovery media” on page 66.
Hard Disk Drive Recovery options
The following are the available hard disk drive recovery options:
❖Recovering the original factory image (recommended recovery
method)
❖Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the recovery partition
❖Erasing the hard disk
❖Recovering the C: partition of the HDD without changing the
current partition size
❖Recovering the C: partition with a user specified size
❖Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the Recovery media
❖Checking the HDD operating status
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