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!
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HDD Recovery PArtition not boot

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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.
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Windows will not boot. Recovery media not working. Satellite L675D-S7052

I am using a Satellite L675D-S7052 with Windows 7. When the laptop is powered on, it will only run to the Windows loading screen (windows logo on screen) and will stop. The logo remains animated but it will not load any further.
I attempted to reset to factory settings using the recovery partition. It will run through "Windows is loading files" to completion, but it will then go to a blank screen with only the mouse cursor showing.
Finally, I attempted to recover from recovery DVD's I made previously. It loaded through the same screens as the recovery partition, halting again on the blank screen with the mouse cursor.
I backed up all important files on an external hard drive already. I was able to successfully boot an Ubuntu 12.04.2 live disk and it ran correctly. I can access the files on the hard drive for back-up from Ubuntu. I have not altered anything.
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Hi! Sense you're not getting any replies, I will offer my opinion. Sense you can boot Ubuntu OS and it runs correctly,what else could be the problem but bad software?? You tried the recovery partition and the recovery DVD's and they reacted the same?? It's good that you can recover your important files. The recovery options are great, but a back up image on a external USB is your best protection. I just don't understand why people don't create a back up image of their OS. It's so simple!! When did you create your recovery DVD's?? Sense both recovery options act the same, I suspect corruption. That's the only thing that makes sense to me??
Dokie!
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Satellite A10-131 does not boot from Recovery or any other disk

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pHoEnIx_fIrE

How did you try to boot from the drive???
Did you change the boot order in the BIOS???
Usually several boot possibilities are available.
1. You can press the C button immediately after notebook powering to detect the CD/DVD drive booting
2. you can use the F12 button to get the booting menu
3. you will change the boot order in BIOS to ODD firstly
But its interesting to know if your new ODD is compatible with the notebook

Satellite L850-161 won't boot from recovery disk

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If you have 4 recovery discs be sure you start installation with disc number 1. After HDD exchange you should be able to use created recovery discs for recovery image installation.
Does some other bootable disc starts properly?
To be honest I dont understand how new HDDD can contain recovery partition that will be created if recovery image installation works.
Problem is that in such situation you dont have many options. In worst case you can order original recovery disc for your machine.

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?
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Satellite P305D-S8834
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AMD Turion X2 64
RADEON 3100 graphics
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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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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
Attachments:
C660UsersManual.pdf ‏3092 KB

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.
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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.
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Help, my computer refuses to boot the recovery partition.

My computer refuses to boot the recovery partition. I hit f12 during startup and selected "HDD recovery", however instead of loading what is suppsoed to be the toshiba recovery wizard, the text "HDD recovery" quickly flashes on the bottom of the screen and then it simply loads windows 7 normally.
I can access the hidden recovery partition from windows 7 and I can see the .wim file in there, but I don't know how to restore a computer using a system image. I've tried that option and it tells me it is unable to find system images, is there a specific place I have to put this file? Do I have to burn it to dvd?
I ran linux off the optical disk drive to see if it would boot anything other than windows 7 and surely enough linux worked.
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It says on the bottom of my laptop the specific model is a Toshiba Sattelite P750 -04S, if I've read it correctly.
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Satellite P750-04S (PSAY3C-04S010)
We support US computer at this website. Everything for your Canadian model is here.
You can order recovery discs by calling 800-663-0378. The discs are free, but the shipping and handling charges are probably substantial.
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-Jerry
Attachments:
P750-P750D-P755-P755D_EnglishManual.pdf ‏4796 KB

Some configurations such as a software or hardware RAID do not support a recovery partition and can't be used with Find My Mac.

I'm getting the following error message when attempting to invoke "Find My Mac"
Some configurations such as a software or hardware RAID do not support a recovery partition and can't be used with Find My Mac.

You have no recovery partition. This is a normal condition if your boot volume is a software RAID, or if you modified the partition table after running Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition. Otherwise, you need to reinstall OS X in order to add a recovery partition.
If you don't have a current backup, you need to back up before you do anything else.
You have several options for reinstalling.
1. If you have access to a local, unencrypted Time Machine backup volume, and if that volume has a backup of a Mac (not necessarily this one) that was running the same major version of OS X and did have a Recovery partition, then you can boot from the Time Machine volume into Recovery by holding down the option key at the startup chime. Encrypted Time Machine volumes are not bootable, nor are network backups.
2. If your Mac shipped with OS X 10.7 or later preinstalled, or if it's one of the computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery, you may be able to netboot from an Apple server by holding down the key combination option-R at the startup chime. Release the keys when you see a spinning globe.
Note: You need an always-on Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection to the Internet to use Recovery. It won’t work with USB or PPPoE modems, or with proxy servers, or with networks that require a certificate for authentication.
3. Use Recovery Disk Assistant (RDA) on another Mac running the same major version of OS X as yours to create a bootable USB device. Boot your Mac from the device by holding down the option key at startup.Warning: All existing data on the USB device will be erased when you use RDA.
Once you've booted into Recovery, the OS X Utilities screen will appear. Follow the prompts to reinstall OS X. You don't need to erase the boot volume, and you won't need your backup unless something goes wrong. If your Mac was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade, so make a note of those before you begin.
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Recovery partition not getting detected

Hi,
i am using dv6-3000 series laptop.the problem is when i last formatteed my system, i moved my recovey partition inside another partition. Now i am trying to revocer my system as my OS got corrupted. But while recovering its not detecting the recovery partition. Is there any way to make it detect.Pls help me out.
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Hi,
If you've altered the Recovery Partition, it's extremely unlikely you will get it to work.
There are Two options open to you.
1. You can order a replacement set of Recovery Discs using the link below. Using these to reinstall your operating system will also re-create the Recovery Partition on the HDD.
Order HP Recovery Discs.
2. An alternative option you could try is described below.
Before trying the following, make sure you can still read the 25 Character Product Activation key on your Windows COA label ( 5 blocks of 5 alpha/numeric sets ).
An example of a COA Label can be seen Here.
You can create an installation disc yourself using another PC - just download the correct Disc Image ( this must be the exact same version that originally came with your notebook ) from the link below and use an application such as ImgBurn to burn the ISO correctly to a blank DVD - a guide on using ImgBurn to write an ISO to a disc is Here. These Images are clean and from a well-respected source, however there are only limited versions available.
Windows-7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit
Use the disc to perform the installation, enter the Windows activation key found on the COA Label when requested and when the installation has completed, use the 'Phone Method' detailed in the link below to activate the OS - this method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who just want a clean installation of Windows 7 without the additional software load normally bundled with OEM installations.
http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-windows-7-by-phone.aspx
Any additional drivers and software you may need can be found staring Here.
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"Recovery partition not found" when trying to creat recovery discs.

I received the following error message when trying to create recovery discs for the first time "recovery partition not found" HP G61 401SA Notebook and it is a couple of years old and has windows 7 as th OS.
I specifically purchased DVD-R discs for the disc creation, which was advised from HP site was the only disc suitable.
Am I doing something incorrect or is there an issue?
Is this why I am unable to also create a back up - are the two things related?

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Hi Erico
I have managed to create the snip - but unsure how to incorprate into the reply here as copy paste will not work - how can I do that?#
The dvd - r are Verbatim Wide Inkjet I have had success with the Verbatim DVD+R
I did not know you are volunteer helpers - thanks goodness for people like you as trying to contact HP support for help was impossible and seemed like I kept going around in circles. No worries. We are here to help.
One more thing, could you advise on how much space the recovery might be approximately - I will need to make sure a USB has enough memory available. Take another look at the disk management window. The partition sizes are visible in the descriptions. My HP loaner has a large recovery partition at >20GB. That mean I had to use a 32GB usb flash drive Most others are smaller and a 16GB usb flash drive will suffice.
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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.

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hi i want to use find my mac but i got this massage (some configurations, such as software or hardware RAID,do not support a recovery partition and can't be used with find my mac)

hi i want to use find my mac but i got this massage (some configurations, such as software or hardware RAID,do not support a recovery partition and can't be used with find my mac)

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