Create Optical Recovery Discs; Restoring The Preinstalled Software From The Recovery Hdd - Toshiba TECRA M3 User Manual

Getting Started

Create Optical Recovery Discs

A recovery image of your computer is stored on the hard disk. You may use
this image to create CD or DVD recovery discs using the following steps:
1. Select either blank CDs or DVD media.
2. The application will allow you to choose a type of media to create
recovery CDs/DVD including: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW,
DVD+R and DVD+RW.
Some media may not be compatible with the optical media drive of your
computer. Please verify your optical media drive supports the blank media
you choose.
3. Turn on your computer to open Windows XP.
4. Insert the (first) blank media into the tray of the optical media drive.
5. Double click the Recovery Disc Creator Launcher 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 to the media then click the Burn button.
If your optical media drive can only write to CDs, select "CD" as the "Type"
on Recovery Disc Creator. If your optical media drive of your computer can
write to either CD or DVDs, select the one you are using as the "Type" on
Recovery Disc Creator.
Restoring the preinstalled software from the
Recovery HDD
About 2GB of hard disk space is reserved for recovery partition.
When re-setting up your hard disk, do not change, delete or add partitions
in a manner other than specified in the manual. Otherwise, space for
software may be destroyed.
In addition, if you use a third-party partitioning program to reconfigure
partitions on your hard disk, it may become impossible to re-setup your
computer.
When sound mute is turned ON by the Fn + Esc key, turn OFF before
starting restore. Refer to Chapter 5,
1. Turn off your computer.
2. While holding down 0 (zero) key on the keyboard, turn on your
computer.
3. A menu appears. Press the "1" key on the keyboard to restore the
original configuration as purchased. Press the "2" key to keep your
current partitions intact and restore. Press the "3" key to specify
partitions and restore.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions.
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The Keyboard, for details.
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