Win 7 HDD Recovery doesnt work on Satellite L750

Hello
I`ve got Toshiba Satellite L750 with preinstaled win 7.
I instaled upgrade to win 8 (from dvd).
After this I upgrade the system from MS site to Win 8.1.
The system doesnt work properly (DVD doesnt recognized) so I have to install previuos system.
First I upgrade my BIOS to the new one - 3.60.
After this I try to do win 7 reinstal from my HDD recovery (which is on the partition d).But it doesnt work - it was impossible to start recovery from bios menu (key F8 doesnt work, there was only possible to press F2 or F12).
So I have to install Win 8.0 from my dvd, and now I have it and it works. But this is only clear system without any addons like nero, ms office etc.
My question is how to reinstal win 7 from my hdd recovery which i still have on partition d ?
in bios the key F8 doesnt work.

>After this I try to do win 7 reinstal from my HDD recovery (which is on the partition d).But it doesnt work
>My question is how to reinstal win 7 from my hdd recovery which i still have on partition d ?
in bios the key F8 doesnt work.
The HDD recovery will not work AFTER you changed the system.
In such case to go back to the factory preinstalled system (Windows 7) you need to use the Toshiba recovery disk which could be created with the preinstalled software called Toshiba Recovery Media Creator.
In case you did not create such disk in the past you can order such disk here:
http://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx

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Hi all,
Could someone tell me where to download or get a copy of the OEM Win 7 Recovery disc for my Satellite Pro L750? The laptop has a new HDD without a working recovery partition and I don't the recovery CD.
Help Please.

Yes of course you should make backup disks but this was my first personal laptop (unbelievable, right ? Never needed one before) and I wasn't aware i couldn't just make a recovery disk from any pc like I used to do for my desktop. The hdd is supposed to last for what, 5,000 hours ?
I would be lucky to have had more than 1,000 hours on it. And no games play either; it had an easy life.
As per Microsoft Forums I did a clean install of Windows 7 using a supposedly OEM setting download from Digital River (OEM in the 'channel' setting in the ei.efg file) but good old Toshiba must do something else in the hardware as slmgr /dli still states it's a 'retail' version so even though Microsoft would have given me a new product key (as to which i am entitled as i have purchased a licence when i bought the laptop), because the installation id states retail based, my genuine licence key number from the bottom of the laptop does not register as genuine when they check.
I tried my desktop pc oem windows 7 installation disk that I got with the pc (now there's a whacky idea, providing a disk with the purchase...) and no luck there either. The laptop was still locked to its own licence key and retail version. I'm guessing even if i bought a new retail windows copy, it still wouldn't work !
I still think $66 is far too much to pay to get the disks. I've already paid for the windows licence, But what choice has toshiba left me, other than to pay them their blood money.
I may be a slow learner, but I do learn. I will never buy a Toshiba laptop, or other Toshiba product again. Sure, other companies will have the same licensing setup, but I'm not angry at them !

Satellite L650-12Q - Toshiba HDD Recovery not working

Toshiba Satellite L650-12Q
Windows 7 64bit
I am attempting to re-install Windows using the Toshiba HDD Recovery software on my hard disc in order to restore the computer to factory settings.
I followed the procedure to do this in System Recovery Options, but received the following message:
"The recovery of the operating system is impossible!
Could not find HDD Recovery folder on second drive of the first hard disk. There is no valid HDD Recovery environment on this computer."
Further details:
Prior to doing the above, I backed up the system and files and folders using AOMEI Backupper. I then made the mistake of merging partitions C: D: and E:, E: contained the HDDR files.
After trying the above recovery and receiving the message above, I re-installed the system file I had backed up to an external hard disc, which resulted in a copy of C: drive and E: drive containing the HDDR files.
Unfortunately, when I tried to recover the OS, the same message appeared.
I then tried to use a System Restore disc I had created a few weeks ago, but found that for some reason that CD is blank.
The good news is that the computer still works - slowly - and the HDDR files appear to be still there but, for some reason, inaccessible.
What are my options? I want to go back to initial factory settings so that I can start afresh and re-install the programmes and files that I want. (I have backed up all my files and have installation discs for programmes.)
If the worst comes to the worst and I have to buy a Windows 7 disc (if that is still possible - I don't want Windows 8), would it be possible to install that on to this computer and would it give me a clean install without any of the rubbish that is presently cluttering up my computer?
Thank you for reading, and I should be grateful for any advice you can offer.

Thanks for your help.
I have since found some recovery discs (3x DVD-R) that I created on 18 July 2010, when I first bought the laptop. For some reason, however, these do not work.
I followed the published procedure:
1. Load first recovery disc.
2. Turn off computer's power.
3. Whilst holding down F12, turn on computer.
4. When "Toshiba leading innovations" appears, release F12.
5. Use 'up' and 'down' cursor keys to select CD-ROM icon from menu.
6. Follow menu.
After item 4, "Boot menu" appears, giving options HDD, eSATA, CD, etc. I selected "CD", but nothing further happens.
It looks to me like things are worse than I thought, but on the positive side the computer still works.
Is there anything more that I can do?

HDMI stops working on Satellite L750

Hi there.
Will be happy if someone can help with this issue.
I connected my Satellite L750, PSK2YA-04K010 with Windows 7 sp1, (64 bit) to my TV today using a brand new HDMI cable. It worked fine for a while and then the display on the TV went dead. I could still manage to get the display on the laptop to work.
I used Fn + F5 to see if I can trouble get it back to life but it did not work. After a long struggle, I just could not get the TV to work again with HDMI.
I checked to see if I have all the latest drivers and all seem OK. I re-installed the nVidia video drivers and then tested it again. Same thing happened. It work for a while and then died on me again.
I noticed that I have a version 1.5 BIOS but can't find a site where it lists the latest BIOS update.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Hein

Hi Xaver
Thank you very much for your email. Yes, I did try another HDMI port. The TV has 3 x HDMI ports but the same thing happend on the other port.
The strange thing is that it works fine for a while. For example, I would use the FN+F5 to display a video clip on my laptop display and also on the TV display together. This will work for about 10 min and then the TV display goes black and will refuse to come back to display the output on the TV screen. I have noticed that the NVIDEA Control Panel will only show one display is connected after when this happens. Usually it will show both displays when I start off in the NVIDEA Control Panel.
The laptop display will continue to play the video on its display even after the TV display has gone black.
I have turned the TV on/off to see if the display comes back but no luck. I am pretty convinced that it will work for a few minutes if I reinstall the NVIDEA driver again (This is the latest driver on the Toshiba website).
I have looked at the 'Service Station' program and this program claims that there are no updates required.
Would be nice to know where I can find the latest BIOS upgrade for this model laptop.
Thanks again.

"No HDD Recovery Area" on my Satellite 350D

I think I might have messed something up, and I know it's not too big of a deal if I don't mess up my computer, but I just want to be sure. I believe I have deleted the recovery partition. I have four in my Disk Management tool.
NO NAME (it's just blank here) - Healthy (EISA Configuration)
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New Volume - Healthy (Logical Drive) - this is another one that i formated, never knew what was in it. I don't use it anymore, I removed the drive letter and it's not doing anything.
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The Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator can not be launched."
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Sascha is absolutely right. There is no recovery partition and this partition is also not hidden as meny people think. One your sentence is very interesting:
>(D:) - Healthy Primary Partition (this one had nothing in it, so I started using it for my music files)
The Toshiba recovery image is always saved on second (D) partition in folder called HDDRecovery and if this folder is removed or deleted you will not be able to create recovery DVD or start HDD installation.
So the best thing you can do is to order new Toshiba recovery DVD.

Toshiba HDD recovery not working

I want to do HDD recovery from Windows 10, I have put all my files on other partitions, I hoped to see & do "Recover without changing the hard drive partitions" but when I turned my PC on while holding 0, It didn't open any TOSHIBA hdd recovery software...This is how it looks and option - system image recovery requests that I use windows installation DVD .... BTW I have recovery partition in this computer: I just got into Boot Menu while pressing F12 during start-up, clicked on HDD recovery, it asked YES/NO, I pressed Yes, but it just went to this screen again - http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/file/res...File_23358.jpg My PC is kind of ruined right now after restarting... my primary system boot partition is now as RAW file system, I don't know how this happened. But at least I still got my backup partition still on this HDD(I'm seeing this on advanced options>cmd>diskpart). Boot menu > HDD recovery just goes to that windows advanced Options page. If HDD recovery worked, everything would be ok, because it could recover only C partition. But now i can't even boot it into windows where i could make recovery dvd's, but I don't know if I could use them because toshiba recovery mode is not working.. Can anyone help? this is really important.

It didn't open any TOSHIBA hdd recovery software...
The Choose-an-option screen is the recovery environment for Windows 8/10. Get used to it.
I have put all my files on other partitions
Best to put them on external media, of course.
We can't go any further until you disclose which computer you have. There is a label on the bottom.
If the machine did not come with Windows 10 installed, we need to know much more about what sort of upgrade you did.

HDD Recovery not working

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Hi
The HDD recover partition is not hidden
In my case the image files where placed on the second partition in Toshiba HDD folder.
However, fact is that the HDD recover could be started pressing F8 button, then choosing option called Repair my Computer and in new window the option HDD Recovery should be chosen.
If this is not possible, then you will need to recover the notebook using the Recover disk.
I assume such disk has not been created in the past. Right? You could create the disk using recover disk creator which is preinstalled on all Toshiba notebooks.
If this is not possible then you have to order the disk here:
http://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx

HDD Recovery Issue on C660 Satellite

Apologies if this is the wrong subforum:
Being the idiot I am, I changed my WIndows Login password and since I use very long passwords, I have no idea what I changed it to. Guessing is out of the question.
So I powered on my laptop while holding the 0 key, which brought me to the Windows Boot Manager screen. I pressed F8 on Windows 7 for advanced options and opted for 'Recovery Mode' as I have used this in the past to install the OS from scratch.
It asks me to select a keyboard layout and then enter my username and password to procede with HDD Recovery. It is this lack of password which is the reason for recovery.
Any advice on what I can do?
Thanks

>It asks me to select a keyboard layout and then enter my username and password to procede with HDD Recovery. It is this lack of password which is the reason for recovery.
On this step you must enter your Windows login name and login password. Without right password you will not be able to start HDD recovery installation.
There is second option to install recovery image. You can do it now using recovery DVD. Have you created it using preinstalled Toshiba recovery disc creator?

What Win 7 drivers are required for Satellite L750

Excuse me...
I'm a new Toshiba L750 owner. I can see this (huge) drivers' list, but here there ara ALL TOSHIBA's utilities aswell.
I believe, the fellow asked (as I am), which are the NECCESSARY drivers for a good/working new W7x64 instalation. Personally, I don't want ANY of the Toshiba's utilities. All I want is a "fresh" W7x64 instalation and my laptop running fine. That's all...
So, I don't think we need no more than 10-14 drivers, to set-up fine our laptops.
So, WHICH drivers are needed?

Fellas, listen to me...
When I bought the L750-1LU last Monday, I almost was one step before... throw it out of my window!
The battery didn't last more than... 1 hr - just fooling around the system/utilities and surfing on the Net, nothing extreme - and my boot time was OVER... 30-40 sec (without installing ANYTHING! I had only the official MSW7 and Toshiba's applications)...
Before... throw it out of my window, I chose to collect all the neccessary drivers from the Net and FORMAT the damn thing, re-install a "fresh" MSW7 and "play" with the power settings...
I did it... the laptop now runs like a charm for OVER 3 hrs, the boot time is about... 10 sec and I don't remember when I needed any Toshiba application and I don't have it installed any more!
I don't need an ECO app, I don't want any "Face ID recognize", or any pop-up message from the MILLIONS I had in few minutes, before I formated the laptop.
The following drivers, are those I chose to install. Please, reply me if I'm good:
* Atheros LAN-ETHERNET Driver v1.0.0.46_W7x64_TC70095400D
* Atheros Wireless LAN Driver v9.2.0.206.0.s3264_W7x65_wCAT_TC00346200E
* Conexant Audio Driver v8.51.1.0a_W7x64_TC70107500F
* Intel Chipset Installation Utility v9.2.0.1015_W7x64_TC70095800D
* Intel Display Driver v8.15.10.2291_W7x64_TC70097300J
* Intel Proset Utility v14.0.2.0.1_W7x64_TC00370400B
* Intel PROSet Wireless WiMAX Software v2.3.0.64_W7x64_TC00244800E
* Intel Wireless LAN Driver v14.0.2.2.1.s64_W7x64_wCAT_TC00370300B
* nVIDIA Display Driver v8.17.12.6669_Wx64_TC70096200U
* nVIDIA HD Audio Driver v1.1.13.1_W7x64_TC70096300C
* Realtek Card Reader v1.0.0.12_W7x64_TC70098500J
* Realtek Wireless LAN Driver v2.00.0013_W7x64_TC70102800C
* Synaptics Touchpad Drivers v15.2.11.1_W7x64_TC70097100F
* TOSHIBA Bluetooth Stack_W7x64_TC00354000J (the system saying is fine, but I notised a "yellow triangle" in "My computer" Devices list. I'm keep trying to update or fix but all messages saying "it's fine")
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* TOSHIBA Web Camera v1.1.6.3_W7x64_TC30271000C
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Looking for Recovery disk for my Satellite A355D-S6921

Hey there,
I can't start win7 anymore on my Satellite A355D-S6921, it reboots automatically before login screen. I tried to press the "0"(zero) Key, but no recovery options, nothing happens. I also tried to restore the drive to an earlier point using F8 options, but an error message comes up before finalization. I've pretty much tried anything I could find on forums, but it stills restart. I believe my solution is to use a recovery CD, but I don't have one, and I can't run windows to create one.
Please I would be really happy if someone could create one from his/her Satellite A355D, and Megaupload a Disk IMG !
Here are the steps to create a recovery Disk:
1 Click Start, All Programs, Toshiba, Recovery, and then
Recovery Disc Creator.
2 Select DVD (to create Recovery media on DVDs).
3 Select the items you want to copy by clicking the check box
next to the items Namerecovery files, applications (original
bundled drivers and applications), or both the recovery files
and applications.
4 Click Create.
5 Insert the first blank DVD into your writable optical drive
when prompted.
6 Follow the on-screen prompts for completing the copy process.

Hi buddy,
I agree with the previous user. If HDD recovery doesnt work you have to use the Toshiba recovery disk. Now its too late for creating this disk and you it would be better posting this in US forum. I think in US forum are more people with US notebooks.
If you dont want to wait for somebodys help get in contact with an authorized service provider in your country. The guys can help you to order such a disk.

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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.
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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Satellite T135 How to enter Safe Mode and HDD Recovery if "F8" doesn't work

Hello everybody
I have a Toshiba Satellite T135 Laptop and it has recently crashed. Since then, every time I switch it on, Startup Repair automatically gets enabled. But it fails repairing the error.
I tried to resolve the problem with System Restore, but that didn't work either. So I think I have to go through the HDD recovery procedure.
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Thank you very much for your advice.

Hi buddy,
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Hi guys
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http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/bulletinDetail.jsp?pf=true&soid=3516888
*Uninstall the Toshiba programs:*
TOSHIBA Recovery Media Creator
TOSHIBA Disc Creator
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*To Uninstall a program or application:*
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4. The CD/DVD drive should now be shown.

Satellite Pro L550-17U PSLW9E - Win 7 64bit HDD recovery question

Hi,
Basically when I recieved the laptop it had the Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit installed.
I created the backup disks as requested but the first disk got scratched and gets stuck on the install, I can install the 32 bit version (the CD it came with) and I've tried to create a new recovery disk via the 32 bit system but this just creates a 32 bit recovery disk (which I already had the proper disk).
Just seeing if there is any way to restore the 64 bit system without having to buy a new version of windows?
Satellite Pro L550-17U
Part Number : PSLW9E-01500MEN
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (pre-installed, Toshiba-HDD recovery) and
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Hi buddy,
The recovery disk that was delivered with your notebook contains *only* Windows 7 32bit version. That means if you install this version, you are able to create 32bit recovery disk but not 64bit. Therefore you would need the 64bit recovery disk.
In my opinion you can do nothing without ordering a 64bit recovery disk. Such disks can be ordered here:
https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx
I hope I could help you a little bit. :)

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