
Use of recovery disc on a laptop
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mlwjackson
, Jan 29 2008 04:33 PM
#1
Posted 29 January 2008 - 04:33 PM

#2
Posted 30 January 2008 - 12:54 AM

What kind of Toshiba laptop is it? Tecra, Satellite,....?
and also what series? A200, M300, U300....?
and also what series? A200, M300, U300....?
Edited by UV_Power, 30 January 2008 - 12:55 AM.
#3
Posted 30 January 2008 - 05:55 AM

The laptop is a Satellite. The recovery disc is for Satellite A210/A215. It is a dual core Turion (?), 2GB RAM, 200GB HD.
#4
Posted 30 January 2008 - 06:45 AM

Hello, and welcome to Geeks To Go.
The first LAW of computing, Back up, Back up, Back up.
The best way to do this is to back up any Data that you do not wish to lose to a CD/DVD, Flash drive, or external hard drive.
You should be able to do a Repair installation, and save your Data.
It is still best to back up your Data. (I can not say this too many times).
If you choose to do a full restore you will have to reinstall your programs, so you may wish to try the Repair installation first.
Thank you.
The first LAW of computing, Back up, Back up, Back up.
The best way to do this is to back up any Data that you do not wish to lose to a CD/DVD, Flash drive, or external hard drive.
You should be able to do a Repair installation, and save your Data.
It is still best to back up your Data. (I can not say this too many times).
If you choose to do a full restore you will have to reinstall your programs, so you may wish to try the Repair installation first.
Thank you.
#5
Posted 30 January 2008 - 01:17 PM

I am going to have to use the recovery disc on my sons Toshiba laptop. He has a lot of music on the HD. We have it backed up on an external drive. Before I use the recovery disc can I create a new partition just for his music and copy the music from its current location (C:) to the new partition and thereby avoid having to reload the music from the external drive following use of the recovery disk?
#6
Posted 30 January 2008 - 01:54 PM

Personally, whenever I reformat, I like to backup everything onto an external medium and completely kill the whole thing and start fresh. If you use the backup utility on the recovery disc Toshiba gave you, it may back up some things that are prompting you to reformat anyways. But, that's just me.
Unless you are sure that it will not touch the other partitions, just backup everything you need and then try it out.
Worst case: You lose your data on the other partition during recovery, but you still have it backed-up somewhere else.
Unless you are sure that it will not touch the other partitions, just backup everything you need and then try it out.
Worst case: You lose your data on the other partition during recovery, but you still have it backed-up somewhere else.
#7
Posted 30 January 2008 - 02:53 PM

I would try the non-distructive repair first.
You can always do a full recovery if the repair fails to fix the problem.
Just back up any Data first.
Thank you.
You can always do a full recovery if the repair fails to fix the problem.
Just back up any Data first.
Thank you.
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