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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Toshiba system recovery

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-535732-restoring-toshiba-laptop-to-factory-settings
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-533852-restoring-toshiba-c655d-s5130-windows-7
Toshiba laptops from mid 2007 onwards dont have a recovery disc supplied with a purchase of a laptop. Instead, Toshiba has added a hidden partition on the hard drive which contains the same files on a recovery cd / dvd.
To reinstall your laptop to the factory settings / "out of the box" settings, please follow these steps.
ALL DATA WILL BE ERASED ON YOUR HARD DRIVE IF YOU PROCEED. YOU WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE POWER ADAPTER PLUGGED IN. DO NOT SWITCH OFF OR RESTART YOUR COMPUTER DURING THIS PROCESS.

1) Hold down the power button for 10 (ten) seconds to switch off your machine.
Please note: Holding down the power button on the machine forces it to switch off. Any unsaved data will be lost.
2) Press and hold the 0 (zero) key and at the same time, tap the power button once to switch on your notebook.
3) When the machine Starts beeping; release the 0 key.
4) When prompted by the warning screen; select Yes to continue with the system recovery.
5) Select Recovery of Factory Default Software; click Next.
6) Select Recover to out-of-box state. Click Next again.
7) Click Next to Start recovery.
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Boot from the "Vista Recovery Disc"
When "System Recovery Options" window appear --- Click on "Command
Prompt". Now enter the following commands one by one.
bootrec /fixmbr ---- Press Enter.
bcdedit /export c:\bcd_backup ---- Press Enter.
c: ---- Press Enter.
Note : Now your prompt changes to C:\>
cd boot ---- Press Enter.
Note : Now your prompt changes to C:\Boot>
attrib bcd -s -h -r ---- Press Enter.
ren bcd bcd.old ---- Press Enter.
bootrec /rebuildbcd ---- Press Enter.
Follow the instructions --- type exit and press enter --> Click on "Restart". 

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