Toshiba Satellite U405-ST550W Toshiba User's Guide for Satellite M300 / M305 - Page 61

Getting Started Hard Drive Recovery Utilities 61 Creating Recovery DVDs Depending on your system configuration, you may be able to copy the hard drive recovery to 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 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: 1 Click Start, All Programs, Toshiba, Recovery, and then Recovery Disc Creator. 2 Select DVD (to create Recovery media on DVDs). 3 Select 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. 4 Click Create. 5 Insert the first blank DVD into your writable optical drive when prompted. 6 Follow 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: ❖ Hard Disk Drive Recovery using the recovery partition ❖ Recovering the original factory image (recommended recovery method) ❖ Erasing the hard disk ❖ Recovering the C: partition of the HDD without changing the current partition size