Satellite L850 - warning - Toshiba recovery wizards

Dears
I have Satellite L850 , and one time i have opened it there is a message titled [ Toshiba recovery wizards ]
with warning
and to option yes or No
and by mistake i have clicked yes , all my data are formated
and it was happen again , and i think theses happen when the labtop shutdowen with low battery
attached the message image
how i can disabled this message
currntly i want to buy another one and this problem is stoped me
thank you

Satellite L850-A919 (PSKDLV-05R00UAR)
when the recovery is executed , data will be deleted and rewritten .
i have clicked yes , all my data are formated
I still don't understand the situation. If that message continues to appear, something has gone wrong. If you cannot restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents from the recovery partition, best to order the recovery media from Toshiba. If the hardware is okay, that will enable you to start out fresh.
Toshiba Europe Backup Media Online Shop
See the instructions in the section Restoring the pre-installed software from your created Recovery Media on p. 4-18 of the User's Manual (attached).
-Jerry
Attachments:
L850UsersManual.pdf ‏5549 KB

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Thanks Jerry!
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Nedeljko wrote:
I have Toshiba satellite p750 03t with Win 7 home premium and I want to restore my laptop to factory settings/state. I Used Toshiba Recovery Disc creator and burned recovery image to 4 DVD's(4,7GB). What I wanted to ask is: Will recovery discs restore Windows 7 Home Premium too as it was when i turned on my laptop first time(a screen prompted asking for user name, company name etc.) and will I be able to burn recovery discs again( will the hidden image be placed on my HDD again)
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First, this is the peer support forum for Toshiba USA, which hosts the forum on their website. While you're still welcome here, your unit is a Toshiba Asia model, and you can register with them at the previous link. So, that's why you get the "Please verify....that your PC was sold in the eligible region." message. Your unit's serial number would not be regisitered with Toshiba USA.
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3 & 4) If you used the Toshiba Recovery USB to rebuild Windows 8 before the Win8.1 upgrade, it is no proof at all that you did not destroy, damage or corrupt the Toshiba Recovery Partition on the hard drive when you installed Linux. However, by using the recovery USB, you would have rebuilt the Toshiba Recovery Partition nonetheless. If you in fact 'upgraded' your Win8 installation to Win8.1, as opposed to doing a 'clean' or 'custom' install of Win8.1, then the recovery partition should still be intact.
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You should take a good look at the appropriate sections of your User's Guide.
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I have a Toshiba Satellite Series L300 (2008 model) laptop which originally had Vista but I installed Windows 7 Professional on it. I now wish to return back to Vista.
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Wait a moment. You mix two different things. If you want to install original recovery image it can be done on two ways:
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>Ok but how do I use the Toshiba recovery disks to reset my computer back to Vista factory settings?
This question is related to method 1.
>I press F8 at start-up---> select Repair computer---> select my language----> Then it gives me Windows 7 Options to only Restore by Disk Image which I created at a earlier date.
This description is related to method 2 and has nothing with installation with Toshiba recovery disks as you wrote in your last posting.
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I hope you understand now how it works.
If you have more questions please let me know.

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I am trying to use the recovery DVDs for my Satellite L850-1C9, PSKDLE, to return my HD to the original condition.
Even though the hidden partition was there, I always got errors, for instance F3-F200-0002.
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I am unable to identify any online docs about how to correctly use the DVDs.
Can anyone give me a link as I appear to be using the wrong search argument on my Android Tablet.
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If you would use the Recovery DVD for system recovering, the hidden partition isnt very important in such case. Why? Because booting from the Recovery DVD would start the recovery process and would format the HDD and delete all partitions.
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So from my point of few you need to check both cases.

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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.
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