Laptop User Manual

Getting Started

Recovering the Internal Storage Drive

❖ During the internal storage drive recovery process it is strongly

recommended that your computer be connected to an external

power source via the AC adaptor.

❖ The Toshiba Recovery Wizard also provides the option of erasing

your internal storage drive, without restoring the information on

the drive. See “Erasing the Internal Storage Drive” on page 77 for

more information.

❖ When you restore your system, only the operating system files,

applications, and drivers originally shipped with the computer

are restored. Any files that you created are not restored during

this process. Be sure to separately save the files you have

created to external media using Windows

Backup or another

backup program. For more information, see “Backing up your

work” on page 109.

Recovering to out-of-box state (recommended recovery method)

Recovering an internal storage drive to its out-of-box state deletes all

partitions on the drive and all information stored in those partitions.

Be sure to save your work to external media before executing the

recovery. For more information, see “Backing up your work” on

page 109.

During the recovery process it is strongly recommended that your

computer be connected to an external power source via the AC

adaptor.

You can recover the original factory image (returning the computer

to its out-of-box state) using the utilities stored on your computer’s

internal storage drive or using recovery DVDs/media, if you have

created such media. To recover using the first method, follow the

procedure below. To recover using the second method, see

“Restoring from recovery DVDs/media” on page 75.

To recover the original factory image using the utilities on your

computer’s internal storage drive:

1 Make sure the computer is turned off.

2 Press and hold the 0 (zero) key on your keyboard while

powering on the computer.

NOTE