Laptop User Manual

Getting Started

Recovering the Internal Storage Drive

You cannot store your system’s applications on the same drive or

disc/disc set where the rest of the system recovery files are stored.

For example, you will need to store the applications on one USB

flash drive and the system recovery files on another USB flash drive.

Or, store the applications on DVD and the system recovery files on a

USB flash drive, or vice versa.

3 Check the Information area of the dialog box to determine the

number of DVDs you will need and/or the minimum amount of

storage space required for copying your system’s recovery files

to USB flash drive(s).

4 Do one of the following:

❖ If you are copying files to DVD, insert a blank DVD into

the optical disc drive.

❖ If you are copying files to a USB flash drive, connect a

USB flash drive of the required minimum capacity (as

specified in the TOSHIBA Recovery Media Creator

utility) to your computer.

All information stored on your DVDs or USB flash drive(s) will be

erased during the process of creating the recovery DVDs/media. Be

sure to save the information stored on your external media to another

storage device before executing this procedure, or use blank media.

5 Click the Create button in the TOSHIBA Recovery Media

Creator utility dialog box.

6 Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the copy process.

If you are copying the recovery files to DVDs, be sure to label each

DVD in the set sequentially (for example, “1 of 3,” “2 of 3,” etc.), so

that you will know in which order to insert the discs during recovery.

For information on using the Recovery media you have created with

the preceding steps, see “Restoring from recovery DVDs/media” on

page 73.

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