Toshiba Satellite C40D-A HD recovery solution to lost password after upgrade to win 8.1?

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Part No.: PSCDSL-009001
After I bought this laptop in Manila, I initiated it with ONE local account, and NO password, and created a USB recovery stick.
There are no privacy-critical data on it, so I'm perfectly happy using it without password.
It came with Windows 8.
Lately I was 'offered' an upgrade to Windows 8.1 through some window in Windows, which I accepted, assuming my old account would be migrated.
During the upgrade, I was forced to get and enter a Microsoft Outlook.com account in order to be able to continue.
I don't want an outlook.com account, still assumed that my previous account would be properly migrated (which it *should*), and registered a bogus outlook.com account, started working, and forgot about the account.
After some time of inactivity and before I was able to create a new recovery USB, the laptop went into sleep modus, after which it was impossible for me to login again, because the thing was asking for my outlook.com account, which I had forgotten, and didn't want in the first place.
Account recovery @ accounts.live.com is impossible due to lack of sufficient data 'to confirm my identity'.
So now I'm considering a HDD recovery, if possible. There are however some questions to be answered before I proceed with that.
1. Is there a possibility that this laptop (bought in a quite well known shop in the Asia Mall in Manila) has some irregular windows installed, so that it will be impossible to recover it? And will I be notified of that before I destroy my original windows 8?
2. Do I need a windows activation key in order to use it after the recovery? (I don't have/can't find one.)
3. To be sure, I looked at https://support.toshiba.com/support/serviceUnitVerification?orderType=SFF in order to check if I'd be able to get a recovery media, but it says: "Please verify you entered the correct serial number, and that your PC was sold in the eligible region."
Now I checked the serial No., and my entry was correct (from the sticker on the laptop), and I have no idea what 'sold in the eligible region' has to do with it, nor do I understand what it is referring to.
4. I have had a linux distribution installed on it before, but have been so careful (enough, I hope) to ONLY remove the partition with the windows installation. Proof of this, is that I was able to reinstall windows 8, before the upgrade to 8.1) from the USB drive. Would this history interfere with a succesful recovery back to windows 8?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Solved!
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Satellite C40D-A108 (PSCDSL-009001) Specs
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.
With regard to your questions:
1) - I doubt it's an illegal copy of Windows if you bought it at a reputable shop. Plus, you would not have been able to 'Activate' Windows 8, nor been offered the upgrade to Windows 8.1 if the original copy was illegal.
2) - No, you don't need an activation key to use the Toshiba Recovery.
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.
Bottom line, if your recovery partition is sill intact and accessible, or if you still have the Toshiba Recovery USB, either way, you can still rebuild your system to its factory default out-of-the-box setup, that is to Windows 8. But, you'd have to satisfy Microsoft, you are who you say you are to get back to Windows 8.1.
You should take a good look at the appropriate sections of your User's Guide.
Get back to us again if you have any more questions. Good luck.
Mike

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