Toshiba Portege R500-S5001 Toshiba Online Users Guide for Portege R500 - Page 57
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Getting Started 57 Hard Drive Recovery Utilities Using the Hard Drive Recovery Utilities or the Recovery media, you can: ❖ Create Hard Drive Recovery CDs or DVDs using a writable drive ❖ Recover your hard disk drive to the factory-set default ❖ Recover just your C: drive, leaving any other partitions you may have created intact, for example, a D: drive ❖ Recover to a custom sized partition, leaving extra space to create an additional partition later ❖ Erase the hard disk completely ❖ Reinstall drivers and applications which were bundled with your computer Creating Recovery CDs/DVDs Depending on your system configuration, you may be able to copy the Hard Drive Recovery Utilities to CD or DVD which gives you the ability to recover your hard disk drive and recover your system if the hard drive recovery partition has been deleted or the hard disk has been replaced on your computer. NOTE The system will prompt you to insert the appropriate number of blank CDs or DVDs to copy the Hard Drive Recovery Utilities. If your optical disc drive is not writable, contact Toshiba Customer Support to obtain the Recovery media for your system. The Toshiba Global Support Centre in the United States is (800) 457-7777, outside the United States it is (949) 859-4273. To create recovery CDs/DVDs: 1 Double-click the Recovery Disc Creator icon on the Windows® desktop. You can also launch the application by clicking Start, All Programs, and then Recovery Disc Creator.