[Ninjabrinee]

I want to set my laptop back to factory setting as I have had it for a few years and it's starting to go quite slow. I don't have a recovery disc so I was wondering how to do it without.. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
By the way, I've holding '0' but it doesn't work...

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Hello Ninja and welcome to Geeks To Go

It is always better to come to a dedicated computer help forum with issues rather than seek help from Yahoo Answers albeit there are some talented people on that site.

Have a read of this paying particular attention to section 2:

http://www.mytoshiba...rt/items/faq/71

[Wolfeymole]

Hello Ninja and welcome to Geeks To Go

It is always better to come to a dedicated computer help forum with issues rather than seek help from Yahoo Answers albeit there are some talented people on that site.

Have a read of this paying particular attention to section 2:

http://www.mytoshiba...rt/items/faq/71

[Ninjabrinee]

I tried doing that but it doesn't work..

[Wolfeymole]

So you actually did the underlined bit and it still didn't work yes?

2. Press and hold the 0 (zero) key on top of the keyboard (not the zero key on the numeric keypad) and at the same time, press the power button once to switch on your notebook.

[Ninjabrinee]

Yeah, I tried it a few times.. It hasn't worked once.. By the way I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate.. Not sure if that matters.

[Wolfeymole]

I have moved your issue to the Windows 7 forum Ninja.

Can you boot up normally, although slow, and if so can you post a screen shot of what it says in Disk Management please.

[Ninjabrinee]

Okay, two things.. How do you take screenshots and what do you mean disk management?

[Ninjabrinee]

This is what it says in disk management.

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[Wolfeymole]

Has someone installed Windows 7 as either a Retail or OEM version as there is no recovery partition?

[Ninjabrinee]

Windows 7 was it's default OS

[Wolfeymole]

That was not what I asked, however have a read of this as you should be able to make some Recovery disks.

http://www.mytoshiba...rt/items/faq/69

[Ninjabrinee]

There isn't an option to do that on my laptop.. And for that question, I just realised.. It was originally Windows 7 Home Premium, but then I got it upgraded to Ultimate and I no longer have the disc...

[Wolfeymole]

Then it is as I say because when you or whoever installed that other version of Windows 7 they wiped out the recovery partition and the only way to get things back to what could be termed as a factory condition is to do a brand new install.

What happened to the disk?