Install SSD from Recovery Disks (newerToshiba), or how?

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/System-Recovery-and-Recovery/Will-Toshiba-Recovery-Discs-properly-align...
^ See the last post of that thread. The writer made recovery disks from the new laptop, then installed the SSD and used the recovery disks to install the operating system and software onto the new SSD. (Didn't clone the hard drive, in other words.)
If you don't need to save settings and migrate files, is recovery-disks-to-SSD the best way to go?
I have a U505-S2012 Satelllite and a 256GB Crucial M4 SSD sitting here, ready to go, LoL. But I didn't know whether it was even possible to make the recovery disks install to a SSD. Or make them install to a hard drive that's smaller than the original.
Any thoughts or advice?
Thanks!

As for me it's no matter how to install win7 on the new SSD drive - fresh install, clone hdd or use Factory Recovey media. For the x220 I've used the 2nd and 3rd methods.
As for twiking of win7 after a not clean installation just use sw from Intel for their SSD or twik it youself during 10-15 min. Alignment is not a problem if you use an SSD with TRIM support.
If you need UEFI the only clean installation is the method.
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Perform a clean install from recovery disks

Hi all,
I have the model (L505-S5995). I created the recovery disks (3 dvds in total 2 for system and 1 for software).
The question is: If I use these disks it will reinstall the Operating system (Windows 7 Home Premium) along with
toshiba bundled software (which are installed After the Operating system had been installed), Is there a way to install only the Operating system and stop the automated bundled software installation?
Also after I used the recovery discs once (instead of holding '0' while powering on the computer) I can no longer see the 8GB hidden drive at the end in Disk management window, also holding '0' will not get me to the recovery from harddisk tool (I think i should somehow get the 8GB recovery partition back, but how?)

You can only restore the system back to it's out of box state. You can't just install WIndows from it. To do that you'll need to purchase a regular version of Windows.
Check out the User's Guide for that model to see exactly what the Recovery System will do and how to use it. The User's Guide is found on your hard drive in Adobe Acrobat Format and can be downloaded from the Product Support Link at the top of this page.
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.

Installed new hard drive now I can't get OS to install from recovery disks.

I have a HP Pavilion g4. I had to install a new hard drive into my laptop. I ordered the system recovery disks from HP directly. Windows 8 is the OS. I was on the first disk when a box popped up. The top of the box says Reducer. Then theres a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark and next to that it says Copy File Fails. Then under that it says From: E:\PRELOAD\BASE2.SWM TO: C:\RM\Image\BASE2.SWM Press OK to retry. I pressed ok to retry but nothing happens. On the screen behind it its blue with a black Recovery Manager box. It says Factory image recovery preparations and theres 3 steps under it. The 1st one is checked and it says Reformatting the Windows partition of the hard drive. The 2nd line also has a checked box and it says Copying files required to restore the hard drive. The 3rd line has the box NOT checked and it says Restoring files to hard drive. Then the progress is stopped at 20%. It went all the way to 100% during the 1st line where its reformatting. Then even though the 2nd line is checked thats where it stopped at the 20%. Sorry so long but im trying to be as thorough as possible. I havent found any answers and Ive called HP already with no solution. I hope someone can help!! 

Hello @noworries8282 ,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand you're unable to recovery Windows after replacing the HDD in your g4 notebook. Don't worry about writing a long post. It's better to have too much than not enough.
Can you please tell me the size, type, and manufacturer of the HDD you've installed in the notebook? If the drive you installed is smaller than the original drive the recovery can fail as it's built to format and partition the drive for the recovery and operating system partitions at a certain size. Many user's aren't aware of this and experience failures when attempting to recover to new drives, especially when trying to install SSDs.
If you haven't attempted the recovery a second time from scratch please try that when you get a chance.
Hopefully this helps!
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Satellite A110 does install from recovery disk but HDD not displayed

Hi guys,
after searching the net I've finally found a forum in which I hope you can help me.
I've tried to search this forum for an anwser but couldn't find it.
I have a toshiba satellite a110 -159 which after a sudden stop didn't boot up.
chkdsk did discover a lot of problems when I connected the hard drive to another pc, but the laptop still couldn't boot from the disk.
anyways, I copied the most important data and remounted the disk in the laptop. with the product recovery discs I managed to reinstall windows xp media center installation, but after the first reboot, the laptopt didn't find the hard disk, it is not displayed in the bios.
strange though that the recovery discs did install... anyone knows how to relist the hard disk in the bios? it was listed there before the reinstall of windows xp mc... :( so it's like it did something with the bios or so.
hope you guys know what's wrong with this one.
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Edit:
the disk is accessible when placed in another system or desktop system with convertor, and copies and works just fine.

I've solved it
opened the laptop and shortened the battery located on the motherboard (couldn't detach it because it was soldered).
the short reset the bios and it found the disk again
very weird though, but it works all fine now.
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How to install Vista off Recovery disk without setting partitions?

Hi,
I have my recovery disk and I installed a new 320gb HHD.
When I installed the recovery disk, it re done the partitions 160gb in each (2 partitions plus 1 recovery partition)...
But I want to dual boot with XP pro due to software issues and I prefer it sometimes...
I have redone my partitions, 1st- 51gb for XP pro(32bit), 2nd- 51gb for vista(32gb) and the 3rd- 210gb is for storage
How do I install with Toshiba vista O/S and stuff that comes with it on the recovery disk, just on to the 2nd partition without touching how I have set the hard drive up....
I already have about 100gb of pics, music and cam vids on the storage, with nowhere to put them so I cant risk them as some are only copies (so it might be a good idea to let me know how do I back up whats on my storage partition to DVD's please)
If I cant, then can some1 please tell me how I get my OEM Toshiba vista off this recovery disk or link one to me?
Hope all this makes sense lol... thanks
Shane

If you have so many important material best back up is to buy external HDD and copy all this stuff there. I recommend you to buy small 2,5 external HDD and when necessary you can take it with you and connect to any computer if you want to show or copy this file. External HDDs can be connected to other computers with delivered USB cable.
Back to your partitions.
When you use original Toshiba recovery installations DVD you will have 3 partitions.
-WinRE partition and it belongs to Vista OS. This partition is not visible and this is not a kind of Toshiba recovery partition
-partition C for Vista
-partition D/or/E for DATA. On this partition is saved recovery image in folder called HDDRecovery
I don't know which notebook model do you have but this configuration is on all new Toshiba notebooks delivered WITHOUT recovery media.
Using Toshiba recovery media you will be able to get exact mentioned partitions structure. Using recovery installations media you WILL NOT be able to install Vista on second partition.
So if you want to have dual boot with WXP you can do follow:
-At first you will install Vista with recovery media and on second partition you will install your WXP version
-At first you will install WXP and then you can install Vista on second partition but you must use Microsoft installations disc. Recovery media cannot be used.
That's all I can say from my experience with this stuff.

Install w7 from recovery to 2nd ssd

I have a DV7-4195ed. i installed an SSD drive as 2nd drive.
I want to use this drive as a startup drive to gain speed.
How do I install W7 from the recovery partition?

HP should have a recovery DVD available.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=bph07143
I am skeptical you can recover the system to a 60 gig hard drive, however. I can squeeze Windows 7 onto a 60 gig drive but once you install other programs then it is going to be real hard to keep the system working right.

Install from recovery disks to virtual machine?

So, I put Windows 7 on my Erazer x510, very happy with it. I have the full set of recovery disks, Windows 8.1. Any way this can be installed to a VirtualBox VM? I suspect no but thought I'd ask....
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hi wreckwriter,
I thinking that this is not possible, The Recovery CD requires a Physical HDD with certain PART ID and the installation start at a BIOS Level.
What you can do is to Download VM version of Windows 7 online,
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Clean Install: from Recovery Disk vs. from USB Flash Drive

Planning to do a clean install on my MBP running Yosemite. Have come across two ways of doing this: From the Recovery Disk or from a USB Flash Drive.
If the clean install can be done by using the Recovery Disk, why would you do one using a USB drive?
Is there any benefit to the USB drive method? Basically I want to know if one way is preferable over the other.
I want to make sure I wipe everything, as my machine's been slow/glitchy since OS X Yosemite was first installed/updated; I'm also not sure if I have picked up anything else along the way. (I'm pretty careful with my browsing/downloading, but I like to be sure.)
Thanks for any help.

The advantage of the USB drive is that you do not need an Internet connection. If you do not have a solid Internet connection or the Apple servers are down, you may be dead in the water. The only possible advantage of using the recovery option is that the latest version of the given OSX will be available. That may not be the same as what is installed on the USB drive.
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Satellite M70 - Can't install from recovery disk

Hi,
I had to remove the HDD from Toshiba Satellite M70 to use it on my Compaq laptop (Compaq HDD crashed). I had to install XP and other stuff after creating 2 partions and used it with Compaq Laptop without any problem. Now I got a new HDD for compaq and fixed the Toshiba HDD back in.
Using the recovery CD I wanted to restore the Toshiba to its original state.
I have the Product recovery DVD-rom. F12 abd selecting cd/dvd would not do the recovery.
Error loading operating system is the message I get.
I can even install with my other original XP pro cd.
Once I put the HDD back to Compaq its working fine, I can even install XP.
What is the cause. Is it has to do anything with MBR?
I am very familiar with computers so please give me a way out of this!
Thank you all,
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Hi
In my opinion the case is clear. If you can install the notebook with a normal Microsoft installation disk and the HDD works properly in another computer its something wrong with the Toshiba recovery disk, maybe its scratched.
What you can do is to install the notebook using the Microsoft disk. Then download and install all drivers from the Toshiba website.
Alternative you order a new recovery disk from an authorized service provider.
Its your choice what you do. ;)

Re: How to install Windows from recovery media on a new hard drive?

Immediately after a Windows update, my computer would not restart. It said disk error.
I could not start it from the recovery media and F8 would not work. I bought and installed a new hard drive. Now when I put in the recovery media to install Windows on the new hard drive, it gives an error message.
What can this be? Should I be able to install Windows from the recovery media?
It is Windows 7 and the laptop is Satellite A500, 64 bit.

Hello
Generally speaking you can install recovery image on every compatible HDD so thee should not be any problem about it.
Please tell us what happen when you start recovery installation. Which error message is shown?
Is new HDD recognized in BIOS. Before you start recovery installation set BIOS to default settings.

How to update to Windows 7 after reinstall system from recovery disk of Vista

Hi, Please I need your help, I have a Satellite L500, When I bought it came with VIsta, and complimentary update to Wiindows 7, after they release to the market. I had to reinstall my system with the recovery disk I had created, but I discover that Vista is working, and I can not find the way to update again to Windows 7. Do you know how to solve the problem.
Thanks

Please try the following:
KB2845626 - Cached credentials are not updated when you change your password in Windows
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How can i restore from Recovery Disk if my notebook's hard drive and dvd drives are dead.

Hi. Good day. My hard drive just crashed and im trying to restore from my restore disks. Unfortunately, my dvd is dead too. I copied the recovery disks to a new hard drive and tried booting from a flash drive but the noteebook is still giving me the SMART hd error message. Please help. Thanks.

Hi,
If you have, or can borrow an external CD/DVD drive it would be worth trying this although I'm not certain your notebook will support booting from a drive connected via USB.
Another option may be to see if you can find a second hand optical drive on somewhere like Ebay - the drives compatible with your notebook can be found on Page 59 of your Maintenance & Service Guide. It may even be worth removing a re-seating your existing drive just in case this helps as described in this section.
Does the drive show up in Device Manager? If it does, right click it and select Properties. Select the driver tab and see if there is an error code in the status box.
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Unable to install SP1 after reinstalling windows 7 from recovery disks from onekey revoery

Windows shows as activated but updates do not work, cannot install SP1 from download gives a critcal error.

hi Hozby,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
Are you trying to install Windows 7 SP1 via the Windows Update? If you do and you get an error using this method, try to:
1. Check this Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Article
2. Run the Windows 7 SP1 Disk Cleanup Tool
2. Download and install Windows 7 SP1 from a Standalone Installer (see details below)
For Windows 7 64bit:
windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe - 903.2 MB
For Windows 7 32bit:
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Let me know your findings.
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On re-installing, I lost my disk image. How do I find it?

After re-installing Lion, my desktop disk image vanished. How can I find it?

The applicaton package Install Mac OS X Lion will be deleted at the conclusion of the installation process if it is located in the Applications folder. There is no reasonable way to recover it once deleted.
Your best bets are:
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2- Redownload it from the Mac App Store.
Note that you don't really need it, since your hard drive now has a special recovery partition. Reboot the computer while holding the option key and you will be able to choose a boot partition called Recovery HD. Boot into that, and you can reinstall Lion from there.
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Satellite A200 - Cannot boot from Recovery disk - code 1

I have Vista business and my laptop is currently running slow and is full of rubbish.
I have in the past used my recovery disc to completely re-install vista and start from a fresh version.
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Hmm... so its definitely not a ODD issue but there is something wrong with the shipped CDs. From my knowledge this error would appear if the CD would NOT be bootable!
Its strange for me that this notebook has been preinstalled with the Vista business.
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