Restoring The Pre-Installed Software From The Recovery Hard Disk Drive; Restoring The Pre-Installed Software From Your Created Recovery Discs - Toshiba PORTÉGÉ R300 User Manual

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5. Double click the Recovery Disc Creator icon on the Windows XP
desktop, or select the application from start Menu.
6. After Recovery Disc Creator starts, select the type of media and the title
you wish to copy, and then click the Burn button.
If your optical disc drive can only write to CD's, select 'CD' as the 'Type'
within the Recovery Disc Creator application otherwise, if your optical disc
drive can write either CD's or DVD's, select the appropriate format based
around the type of media you wish to create.
Restoring the pre-installed software from the Recovery hard
disk drive
A portion of the total hard disk drive space is configured as a hidden
recovery partition. This partition stores files which can be used to restore
pre-installed software in the event of a problem.
If you subsequently set up your hard disk drive again, do not change,
delete or add partitions in a manner other than specified in the manual,
otherwise you may find that space for the required software is not available.
In addition, if you use a third-party partitioning program to reconfigure the
partitions on your hard disk drive, you may find that it becomes impossible
to setup your computer.
When the sound mute feature has been activated by pressing the Fn +
Esc key, be sure to disable this to allow sounds to be heard before starting
the restore process. Please refer to Chapter 5,
details.
1. Turn off your computer.
2. While holding down 0 (zero) key on the keyboard, turn on your
computer.
3. A menu will be displayed from which you should follow the on-screen
instructions.
Restoring the pre-installed software from your created
Recovery Discs
A external optical disc drive that is sold separately and compatible to the
computer is required to create the Recovery Discs. It can be purchased
from TOSHIBA dealers.
User's Manual
This machine supporting the following optical disc drives for
restoring the pre-installed software:
External DVD Super Multi Drive PA3454U
External CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive PA3438U
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