User’s Manual 3-13
Getting Started
Restoring the preinstalled software from your
creating Recovery Media
If preinstalled files are damaged, use the your creating Recovery Media or
using HDD Recovery to restore them. To restore the operating system and
all preinstalled software, follow the steps below.
1. Load the Recovery Media in the optional optical media drive and turn off
the computer’s power.
2. Hold down the F12 key and turn on the power. When In Touch with
Tomorrow TOSHIBA appears, release the F12 key.
3. Use the left or right cursor key to select the CD-ROM icon in the display
menu. For details, refer to the Boot Priority section in Chapter 7, HW
Setup.
4. A menu appears. Press the "1" key on the keyboard to restore all hard
disk. Press the "2" key to Restore drive C:. Press the "3" key to Restore
Recovery tool.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.
■ If the optical media drive device is a CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive,
Optical Recovery Discs cannot be created. When there is a need to
start the recovery process, use the Recovery HDD instead.
■ When creating Optical Recovery Discs, use a separate and external
optical media drive that can write the data to CD-R or DVD-R discs.
When sound mute is turned ON by the Fn + Esc key, turn OFF before
starting restore. Refer to Chapter 5, The Keyboard, for details.
When you reinstall the Windows operating system, the hard disk will be
reformatted and all data will be lost.
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