Recovery partition isnt working

hello everyone
i have a toshiba satellite l505d-s5983 laptop. i have been having problems with this laptop for the past 2 weeks and it hasnt stopped. i was able to reset my laptop and i even got rid of the error message i used to have before the windows boot screen. it worked fine for about 3 days. it then made a strange sound and froze so i restarted. it booted up fine but then it became very slow. i rebooted and it worked fine. i got some updates and installed them. when it rebooted it said preparing to configure windows but it still wasnt done a few hours later. then screen went black and nothing would bring it back up. i recovered the laptop and a few hours later i got the error that the recovery partition id wasnt found. the hard drive has no os installed on it and i dont know what to do. any help is appreciated.

Sounds like the hard drive is failing.
To test the hard drive determine what brand of hard drive you have. You can check the Bios/Setup to find out, look in device manager, or run SIW or Belarc Advisor. Go to that manufacturer's support site and download their Self Booting Diagnostic CD ISO image, create the CD using the Burn From Image option (see http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm for more information on doing this), then boot to it and run the most exhaustive tests available. If you have a Toshiba drive you will need to use the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test as Toshiba doesn't supply their own.
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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.
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Recovery Partition Not Working

Dear all,
I have a Elitebook 8560w with a recovery partition. Last year, I installed a SSD drive in the 2nd slot and used a third-party program (Aoemei IIRC) to create new partitions (somehow, Samsung Magician malfunctioned on the first try). Afterwards, Samsung did work (do not ask me how) and the new partitions were created.
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hi DEADLYshroom93,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
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The recovery partition on my T430 doesn't seem to work - I cannot create a DVD out of it (exits with error "rc=9") nor can I use the partition itself for recovery (the process starts but fails). How can I get a DVD to use?
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good day!
in your case, the best option is to contact Service and request a recovery DVD set.
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Recovery partition not worked

I have a HP Pavillion 15
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After applying the changes- restart the laptop at least once. Then shutdown and restart after 1 minute--tap F11 to check if Recovery is working.
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Can I use the HP Recovery partition after formatting and repartitioning the rest of the hard drive?

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Hi:
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Hi,
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JaneGoodall wrote:
Hi,
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Hi:
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After the latest 8.1 update, an extra recovery partition as added to the C: drive. A few other things got messed up so i decided to reset to factory original. To my surprise the HP Recovery Tools no longer work. If I hit F11 I get a 0xC0000225 error where the device isn't avaialble. I can see the recovery partition with the WINRE partition but I think the computer doesn't know where the partition is. I'm on an DV6-7211 with Windows 8.1 update. Anyway to tell the F11 function where the WINRE drive is? Since HP didn't seem fit to give me recovery media in my box I have no way to revert back to factory original. SInce there is a liscense for Windows 8 included, I don't feel like spending the money to buy a new operting system. Recovery media is way too expesive.

You might try making a Recovery set with the software included on your machine-though it may not work now either. Creating Recovery Media >> Windows 8
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Recovery partition and Recovery disk doesn't work

I have HP Pavilion dv6000 Windows Vista Home Premium with Recovery Partition at drive D:\. Here is my problem. I want to use the System Recovery to put my PC to its default setting, I have use Recovery Manager, but System Recovery does not work. I have also use a recovery disk, but nothing works. Using the Recovery disk, while the recovery is in process formatting the windows partition, and the process reaches 33%, a windows error pop-out (Error: ox4001100200001005). I need help because my laptop is unstable and I cannot work.
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Recovery partition on T410 not working

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Hi cwarner!
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