Restoring toshiba laptop to factory settings [Solved/Closed]

ya let us know if the 0 kick works; I know it has not been working for some users.

if anything he could always try getting an OS start-up disk depending on what he is using and A)See if he can boot from the disk and do a repair
B)Do a clean install

If what Ambucias does not work let us know

It worked for me thanks alot!!!

wow this is a really good help, it really did improve my laptop! THANX-ALOT!

Thank you! It helps! I just reinstall my Toshiba.

how long does thisa take cuz i already hit finished and now the screen says configuring.. its been saying that for the last 10 minutes,

seriously..... i hope i didnt ruin my comp by trying this step

@chucky

Why should ruin your comp? We have not prescribed TNT. You let us know.

0 didn't work to access the recovery partition but F8 did and the rest of the directions were right on. Thanks!

I was able to get "******* HDD RECOVERY MODE ******" using the above, but no option to select Yes (as is spelled out in step 4)..

Any ideas?

thaks it realy worked

it worked great...thnx a bunch

Thanks so much for your help!!! just did what you suggested..toshiba laptobs not happenin for me....HPs are the best so far :)

Thank you for yourhelp

i tried it many time but it didnt give me the option instead it takes me to windows 7, ive clicked on it and than nothing ever happens, i retried it when it was on windows 7 option screen on the botton it says to click f8 for other options but it only give me safemode and some other useless options as well as repair, ive tried all but dont do anything

please guys I need you help I am have the same problem but the zero button is not working for me, the laptop is toshibamini phonix bios

Thank you :) Im given it a try!

step 4 doesnt happen it just goes to a blank screen

told me no bootable device and wont let me do anything now no options the first time it said this i tried to do it again i selected to last known configuration and it said no connection cable???? HELP PLEASE

If it says no bootable device, I am afraid that your harddisk is fried.

Sorry

the repair option from F8 worked on my nb305 gave option for toshiba HDD recovery

thankyou so much =]

All the steps worked above 1-7! Thank you so much.

Thanks a lot for this

well done

This worked great. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much!

yuuush thanx. that worked

How do you boot from the Vista Recovery Disc? I'm not finding a disc that came with it, and I'm having the same issues: I hold 0 down when I start it up and it doesn't work (shows the toshiba page, then black screen with flashing underscore in top left, beeping that wont stop unless i let up on 0, and when I do it just starts up normally).

jack4rall:

I am having same problem as the original post, with a Toshiba Satellite 455 laptop, Win 7, Home Premium. Mine started after a failed Registry clean... stopped part way thru, hung up. Attempted disk recovery but that stopped part way thru too. Did not have recovery CD, but made one from another Win 7 laptop, using that to attempt recovery. Have only been able to load Windows part way,,, get black screen & cursor but nothing else. Cursor does nothing.

Cannot get command prompt to come up at all, like thru startup options, etc., unless there is some secret way you know of to do that.

The more I try, the worse it seems to get. At first I could do a "Memory Diagnosis", but now cannot even do it, since the last time I did it I got:
File: /boot/memtest.exe
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

Question: Given this information - would the above fix work in my situation too? My main problem is getting to the command prompt to enter yor fix process, and even if I could, I am not sure your solution will work with my situation. It is VERY similar to the original post. The description they give is exactly what I have, except for the file error details (which I am not sure if they had going too, but they were not aware of them yet).

I ask this of you since you seem to be quite knowledgeable on this subject, and it is the closest, best answer I have found after DAYS of searching for an answer to fix this problem.

Thanks in advance for your time and interest in answering this for me!

Always worth a try.

I'm still a little taken back that there were so many of the same types of post around the same time wonder what is causing it. There are a lot of the same post on toshibas forums.

He said he didn't have a restore disk, so i'm not sure if he OS disk.

@ Confused

What OS were your running?

the prssing 0 while booting didn't work. I can't the it to boot so the second method is impossible...thanks

You said its not booting, so is it freezing up, are you getting a blue screen and the it just keeps rebooting, does it not start up at all.

Explain what it does or does not do and you may be able to get it back up and running without a full restore.

no blue screen. when i try to boot all i get is a black screen with the cursor blinking on the uper right hand of the screen.

it's a l355

Of course, it could not work because the recovery is within your HD.

I will seek a wizard's opinion on this, jack4rall.

Stand by

thanks

hi Im so happy I found this LOL i did what was explained and well.. as we speak IM in recovery stage ~ wow Awesome if this works out I Missed my Lap top ty for the Help !