HDD Recovery Partition

I did a clean upgrade to windows 7 but kept the recovery partition. The recovery partition still exists I can see it in the partition manager, but when I press 0 to open the HDD Recovery Utiliy on startup it does not open. How can i boot to the HDD Recovery Utility.

Toshiba HDD Recovery Utility
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Satellite L745D-S4214 Does not boot; HDD recovery partition not working

I tried to apply the recent windows 7 updates and my laptop no longer boots. I tried to press F12 and select the HDD Recovery partition, but it does not boot regardless. There is a message that it does not communicate to a specific device. I believe the address called out was 0xc0000e9, but I am going by memory. I never created a recovery CD because I thought I was covered by the HDD partitions. This was purchased on 10/26/2012, so it should still be under warranty.
PLEASE HELP!

Hi I'm going to assume that your recovery works like mine and that the recovery partition is still good and not corrupted.
Shut down your PC. Press F12 and select HDD recovery. Click enter. This should start the recovery from the hidden recovery partition.
PS I would advise you to make the recovery discs or USB recovery Try this first.
Perform a power cycle
Even when your laptop is off and unplugged, residual power can still be held in some components. While this is normal, clearing it can help with boot problems. Perform these steps to complete what’s called a power cycle.
Ensure the laptop is turned off.
Unplug the laptop's AC power cable.
Remove the battery (if the model has a removable battery).
Unplug all wires or peripherals. This includes CDs, DVDs, USB sticks, mice, printers, and any other accessories.
Hold down the power button for thirty seconds.
Reattach the battery.
Connect the AC adaptor to the power socket that was confirmed to be working in the first step.
Connect the other end of the AC adaptor to your computer.
Try starting the computer.
If your laptop starts normally now, you're done!
I Love my Satellite L775D-S7222 Laptop. Some days you're the windshield, Some days you're the bug. The Computer world is crazy. If you have answers to computer problems, pass them forward.

How to restore the HDD Recovery partition which has been deleted?

Hello,
due to the mistake, I removed HDD Recovery partition.
Then, now I'm unable to restore eg. system state from before a fe hours.
Is there any way to "make" HDRecovery once again?
I really liked the funcionality of this tool, so it'd be nice but - can this be done? And how?

Andrej is right you cannot do this.
When you use Toshiba recovery media and install Vista this option will be available again.

Where could I find, live disk or other to restore HDD recovery partition?

Hello I have a A300 1M9 system unit.
I need to restore the HDD recovery partition, I had to change the harddrive disk, cause he is dead.
Is there any link where I could download the files? ISO img or other program able to create a new recovery partition on a new disk?
This computer is not under warranty, because he has more than 4 years.
Thank you for all the support you could give me
Seb
ps : second question : wich kind of hard drive disk could I buy for that model ? Wich connector, 2 1/2 hdd and sata? Ide? I dont know.
Message was edited by: Seaone

Hi and welcome in our community.
This is user-to-user forum so here you will not get answer from Toshiba technicians.
I have a bit experience with Toshiba laptops. Meanwhile I use my third Toshiba machine. ;)
I have A300 to and must say it is very good piece of hardware. So here is answer to your question:
Recovery image cannot be downloaded. You got your notebook with preinstalled Vista and preinstalled Toshiba recovery disc creator tool. With this tool you could create recovery disc. This disc can be used in situation when recovery partition is damaged or you want to use new HDD.
So I presume you dont have it. Original recovery disc can be ordered on https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx
My advice: I use Win7 32bit on my A300 and it works perfectly and very stabile. Dont waste your time trying to obtain original recovery disc. Install own Win7 version. F you need some assistance I can help you with installation and configuration.

Restoring HDD Recovery Partition

OK guys, bear with me 'cause this may get a little hairy.
At the moment nothing is wrong with my laptop. What I am about to do is remove the factory HDD and replace it with a larger, faster drive. Well, naturall the new HDD will not have the HDD recovery partition. Nor am I very interested in using it. But the drive that I am going to take out will probably get reformatted and used for something else, thus I will more than likely remove the HDD recovery partition from it.
Now around my home we have a habit of handing things down. Once I upgrade to a newer laptop, I'm not leaving my high priced SSD drive in the one that I'm using now, I'll probably reinstall the factory drive, but the factory drive will have had that HDD recovery partition removed.
So finally we arrive at the question, how do I restore that HDD partition to the original drive when I reinstall it in the computer?
Thanks ahead of time for all your help guys!!!!!!!!!1
Satellite P305D-S8834
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
AMD Turion X2 64
RADEON 3100 graphics
4 GHz DDR2 800, PC2-6400 RAM
2 Seagate 320GB 7200 rpm HDD

that may be why it came with the discs. those should work and if not when you swap everything you can always order a new set here
-civicman4-
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Removing HDD Recovery Partition

Hello
Does anyone know how to remove the HDD recovery Partition? I have not use for it as I have recovery Cds, plus partition images stored on a network drive. I would like the space to put a current image of my C: drive, rather than the original install.
When I go to delete the volume or partition I get major errors. With Paragon Disk Manager resizing my laptop completely bombs and I have to reinstall all partitions! When deleting from within Vista it says volume is in use and deletion may cause unexpected errors.

If you really want to remove it you could try Acronis Disk Director Suite. I never had problems with it. A very good program.
By the way, do I think you mean the Windows Recovery Environment and thats not a Toshiba feature.
The Toshiba recovery is only stored in a folder called HDDRecovery. Its not on a hidden partition.
However, maybe this good article is interesting for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Recovery_Environment

HDD recovery partition to other storage media

Hi,
I own a Toshiba laptop model A665-S6094 with 640GB hdd model MK6465GSX.
Recently, my OS was not started anymore and I suspected that there are some problems with my hdd.
In fact I was true, there are several bad blocks, I was very disappointed with that, the 640GB hdd has only 1y and 5m, just enough to be out of warranty.
I tried to revitalize the hdd with hdd regenerator or even zero byte fills program but with no luck. The bad sectors are still there.
Before I managed to backup my data and also to save the hidden recovery partition, created an iso image from it. I also saved the MBR, just in case. But I do not have any recovery media.
Now I plan to flush the recovery partition content on a USB stick and to boot from USB device with a brand new hdd. Will this be working?
If I plan to boot with recovery DVD disks, how I should write the recovery partition on recovery media and how should I split the zzimages folder?
Are there any differences between the recovery partition and the recovery media disks? After all Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator is using the recovery partition to create recovery media, right?
Greetings,
Laurentiu

All you have to do is make sure the USB stick is formatted NTFS or FAT32 and "active". Then just copy the contents from the root of the recovery partition to the root of the USB stick. Double-check the file "DATA.INI" and make sure that "CDNUM=1" and "CDMAX=1", but if it came from the HDD recovery partition, they should already be correct. Go and and test boot.
Rick...

No HDD Recovery Area! While HDD Recovery Partition is exists

About 2 days ago, my laptop (T115-1125) was crashed, I can't get into the windows because some error like this (Grub Loading error, blabla), knowing it, I realize that I just have one pieces Recovery Disc (I don't back it up until complete), and this is my fault, I tried that Recovery disc and load it, when I pressed F12 (multiboot menu) and make a choice on DVD Drive, then, I choose an option the middle one (*i guess), Recovery without changing any drive , and i just pressed next" until the recovery process asked me to insert the next disc, but i don't have it, And now my laptop runs windows vista x86 (Pirate Edition), Recovery Disc Creator was installed, and i just double click it, and the system tell me that i don't have any HDD Recovery Area!, so it couldn't be load, and i open "my computer", there is a Drive (FHDDRECOVERY <=== and that was a Recovery Partition, but why it doesn't hide like when i use windows 7 HP before? Can I just Back it up using another Burning tools (with multisession DVD) and use it to recovery my laptop ? If I don't, how can I get into Recovery Partition and Recovery my laptop without any of disc? I was pressed "0" repeatedly but nothing happen, I'm stuck.Can anyone help me solve this problem? I hate this pirate vista so much!!

Satellite T115D-S1125
See the section Recovering to out-of-box state (recommended recovery method), which begins on p. 59 of the User's Guide.
Satellite T110/T130 Series User’s Guide
If that doesn't work, you can order recovery discs from Toshiba.
Order Toshiba Recovery Media
-Jerry

Restore hdd recovery partition

hello people, my toshiba satellite c660-1g2 comes with a hdd recovery drive, when i wanted to creat a different partition to save my data, i dont know what happend but my hdd recovery could not work any more and i have reformated my pc with a win 7 cd, but i still have the hdd recovery files on a different partition, please can some one help on how to reinstate the hddrecovery partition with the files i have saved, my pc is really messing up without the original files and it sucks, please some one help me.

Satellite C660-1G2 (PSC0QE-02L00CEN)
When you restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media, all the partitions (including the disk image) are restored. That's the only way I know to get it back.
If you failed to burn those discs, you can obtain them from Toshiba.
Toshiba Europe Backup Media Online Shop
Restoring will wipe the drive clean, of course. So you will need to back up all important files and reinstall added applications later.
-Jerry
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HDD Recovery PArtition not boot

I have a Toshiba L305-S5968. The partition of the C: format, but still there when checking the other partition of HDD Recovery. I tried to get that partition with F8, F12 etc. but the system does not rise. Right now the other partition is blank. When I give F8 I get to continue with ctrl + alt + del to restart. I could also make the recovery area and store it in another hard drive in case you lose the other. But not without co so I can create a boot disc. I hope you can help me. Thanks!

As outlined in great detail in your User's Guide (that was found on your hard drive in Adobe Acrobat Format or downloaded from the Product Support Link at the top of this page) starting on, or about page 60 you have to hold down the 0 (zero) key when booting the system to start the recovery process. But, if you have formatted the C:drve you can no longer create Recovery Disks until the system has been restored to it's factory out of box state, and unfortunately that may not be possible after you formatted the C: drive. Try holding down the 0 key to see, but if it doesn't you'll need to order a set of recovery disks from Toshiba. Details can be found in the first post in this Recovery Forum.
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

HDD recovery partition error (satelite M840-A759)

Hi there,
Recently my laptop had become to slow and laggy so i decide to recover it .By mistake i inserted a wrong recovery disk of other toshiba model which deleted the HDD partition and added new one .
so it for sure gives errors and not working at all.
i used some softwares that deleted the new partition and recover the old one.and after 6 hours i successfully recovers it.When i start recover using the recovered partiton it start coping and then it gives error 10-fc06-000b every time so now my brain cogwheels completely stops and i really need to access my laptop for important business
thanks in advance .

Satellite M840-A759
A model from the Middle East. Order your recovery media here.
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Can't recover m840 with Windows 8 from HDD recovery partition

Hi everyone
i have a m840-b371 Satellite laptop with Windows 8 x64 pre-installed. i didn't created the media recovery disks and now because of a virus i have to recover the laptop. the problems is the Recovery Media Creator is not launching (probably because of virus). so i can't create the disks and myonly option is recovery partion. but although i press 0 key and then Power key (the way instructed) but nothing happens. i tried F2 also but no response. what should i do??
also if i wanted to boot from DVD what key should i press?

Satellite M840-B371
What is the part number? It looks something like PTMB0E-037017B3.
Does Windows boot?
-Jerry

How can i install Windows XP on IBM T43 from recovery partition ?

I have a secret recovery partition with some GB in size on my IBM T43 laptop and i want to install Windows XP from it.
How can i do that? I will loose all my data from HDD or I can keep D: partition intact ?
What are the steps i should follow to install XP from secret hdd recovery partition ? Are the drivers also on this partition ?
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Perhaps one of the discs is not labeled correctly. Try going through all of them to see if one of them works.
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Lenovo Twist - How do you copy Win 8 Pro onto recovery partition?

I upgraded my Lenovo Twist (3347-4HU) from Win 8 to Win 8 Pro with Windows Media Center (WMC). How do I copy the newly purchased operating system and WMC to my HDD recovery partition so that if I ever have to do a restore, it will restore Win 8 Pro with WMC and not the original copy of Win 8 that came on the computer? My concern is if a recovery is done from the factory recovery partition, I will lose my upgrade that I purchased.

Another option would be to make a full-drive backup to an external HDD. You can use the oddly named "Windows 7 File Recovery" feature to make the backup.
It's probably a good idea to do that on a regular basis.
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Lost Recovery Partition

Dear Sir/Madam
I lost HDD recovery partition some how, if i honest with you i mistakenly format the hdd
is there any way to activate Windows 8.1
Regards
S.M. Jakaria Biddut

Did you create recovery disks when you got the computer, if yes use them. If not, and if you live in the USA/Canada, call HP at this number 1-800-334-5144, and see if you can still get a set of recovery disks. Otherwise the WorldWide site:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/w1/en/support.html
Do you know your Windows license key?
Please mark my post as SOLVED if it has resolved your problem. It helps others with similar situations.

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