Portege R700 - 15U HDD upgrade to SSD using recovery media

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• Re-install Windows 7 using recovery media (DVD)

  Laptop: HP-430 Notebook

  OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)

  HARD DRIVE: THE 298 GB

  When I bought recently my laptop HP-430, I partitioned new HARD drive using some other third party software. I created an additional partition (M:\). Here's the info, how I've repartitioned...

  C:\ - 100 GB (changed from 284 GB to 100 GB).

  D:\ - have not made any changes.

  M:\ - 184 GB (created a drive by myself).

  Then after a few days of testing purpose I thought using the Recovery Manager. So I run the Setup and chose the first option (System Restore) who says he will only reformat the drive (C:\) system and will not issue any other HARD disk changes. But to my surprise it deleted/reformatted the HARD full disc, and I lost all my documents, music, photos and all my important files, I recorded/saved on M:\ (that I had created...)

  Can someone tell me why the hack happened...?

  So now, next point. After that the Recovery Manager has restored the operating system, I repartitioned again, but this time with the Windows disk management tool. But the Windows disk management does not shrink (resize) the C:\(Systemdrive) of less than 150 GB. So I resized C:\ to 150 GB of GB 284 and created a player more (M:\) 147 GB size. And I deleted the recovery disc (D:\), but I created the recovery DVD before you remove the Recoevery of my HARD disk drive.

  Now its time for me to reinstall Windows 7 using recovery media, I messed with some system files when installing a theme for Windows 7 and now my OS is completely unstable. So now I want to reinstall windows 7, but I do not understand what option selected in the Recovery Manager (when run from Recovery DVD)

  Options displayed in the Recovery Manager

  1 collect using Microsoft Recovery

  2 recovery system (the option that I had chosen for the first time and got all the stuff removed)... He said that he only reinstalls the OS and custom make any other change of HARD drive.

  3 minimized Image Recovery

  4. factory Reset.

  So now my question to you guys, it's what option do I have selected in the Recovery Manager so that all my saved content and my stuff on M:\ (I created) will not be removed... and the operating system is reinstalled.

  PLIZZZZZ HELPPPPPPPPPPPP...

  Hello

  I don't think that all the disk recovery options will keep your partition custom - as far as I know, the only time where you will receive a prompt to keep a custom partition when you use the option "Recovery of Image is reduced to a minimum" to the recovery Partition D that you deleted.

  You can try the following workaround.

  Download the good Image of disk Windows 7 from the link below: it must be exactly the same version your OEM Setup - that is to say if your laptop comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, it comes to the version, you must download.

  Windows 7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit

  Use an app like ImgBurn to burn the ISO correctly on a blank DVD - a guide on the use of ImgBurn to write an ISO on a disc is here.

  Use the disk that you create to perform the installation - when you get to the option to choose the installation type, choose custom and select the C partition.

  When asked, enter the activation key Windows located on the underside of your laptop, then when the installation is complete use the 'method of phone", described in detail in the link below to activate the operating system - this method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who want to just that a new installation of Windows 7 without software load additional normally bundled with OEM installations.

  http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-Windows-7-by-phone.aspx

  Additional drivers, you may need to find from here.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Portege R700-172 how to replace SSD

  How can I replace the SSD by a standard HDD? Toshiba has used connectors in the R700-172.

  Post edited by: tron

  Hi tron.

  Can you post a screenshot of this special connector?

  AFAIK all SSDS on the market have the same connector, it s SATA port so that I can t imagine that you are not able to install a normal HARD drive, because they have the same port SATA SSD.

• W700ds: Select RAID using recovery media created

  Hello!

  I am owner of a ThinkPad W700ds, but I guess my question will be answered there as well if it were a W700... Please, any help would be great!

  I bought a "used" W700ds with Windows Vista Business (COST and recovery partition intact, but no media provided). The laptop has been published with RAID0, but I was always doubtful that it has been implemented correctly. I spent some time he investigation this afternoon and noticed that the BIOS has not been configured correctly - it was set to AHCI instead of the RAID.

  I did the following:

  (1) created using the installation in the ThinkVantage software recovery media.
  (2) RAID enabled in the BIOS
  (3) entered in the RAID (Ctrl + I) starting at the top. I configured as RAID0 readers.
  (4) reinstalled Windows Vista using the recovery media created in (1) above.

  After completing the installation of Windows Vista would be failed to start - always BSOD'ing.

  I repeated step 3 & 4 above, select RAID1 instead. Exactly the same problem.

  I have since return to the setting of the AHCI BIOS and reinstalled Windows Vista using the recovery media and I'm back where I started (Windows installed, but in a RAID array).

  I did some research and it seems that in the RAID drivers are not included in the recovery media and this is the reason for the BSOD. I've included some of the many websites I read, both for your reading and, somehow, to check that I really spent some time to the consideration of this issue before asking for help.

  Media recovery that I created, that's all I have - is there a 'stand-alone' for me way to activate RAID? I prefer RAID1 (I would favour redundancy over the speed), but would be happy with RAID0 if this is not possible. It seems it is scandalous that Lenovo (aware - and obviously not "expected" as alternative installation media is considered a book 'around') offer the possibility to create recovery media, which does not have to reinstall Windows by using a configuration valid.

  It seems that it is not possible to maintain the RAID by Lenovo R & R, which probably explains why the seller announced the ThinkPad RAID, but it did not come to me as such (the seller has used the recovery partition to restore laptop to factory for me state before ending our sale - makes sense!). It seems a shame to have a laptop that offers RAID functionality and has the necessary equipment (RAID controller and two disks) and hit a sort of brick on software restrictions. Can someone advice how can I proceed to reinstall Windows with the disks in a RAID array, as I have only the Lenovo recovery media?

  Lenovo support are closed today due to the day Bank holiday UK but I'll try next time - but I'm afraid my fate is in your hands already, like the ThinkPad is out of warranty.

  Thank you!!

  Links:
  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=SF08-D0154
  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=SF08-D0109
  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/W-series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W700-2757-RAID-setup-Configrations/TD-p/76134
  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_ID/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=SF08-D0112
  http://Forum.ThinkPads.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=69559
  http://Forum.ThinkPads.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=86428

  
  

• Portege R100 and HDD upgrade

  Hello

  I have a Portege R100 and I want to upgrade the 40 GB HARD disk. What is the highest size that I could upgrade using Toshiba or not Toshiba HDD?
  There are 1.8 "SSD? What would be the best way to update?

  Thank you
  Romeo

  I have an old Portege 2000 and it's almost the same specifications your one, but my has been delivered with 20 GB of HARD drive. I've updated it with 60 GB and it works perfectly.
  I can understand your wishes on the HARD drive upgrade, but I recommend you to be a little more realistic and spend it is logical and understandable for this older model laptop.

  So I can confirm that 60 GB HARD drive will be working well. Maybe you can use the HARD disk with more capacity, but Toshiba is now your Portege with 40 GB max. What you can do is to contact the nearest Toshiba authorized maintainer and ask them if they have more experiences with the hardware upgrade on this laptop.

  To be honest, this laptop is not designed for multimedia stuff and in fact 60 GB HARD drive is quite enough for the installation of applications and for the registration of all the important things like maybe a few videos, photos and office documents.

  What you want to do with this laptop?

• Upgrade SSD using recovery discs: warnings?

  I would like to start by saying that I am pretty technology-challenged, then kindly appreciate if authors of response could use short and simple words with me.

  I have a 8460p with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit Elitebook. I want to upgrade my HARD drive of 320 GB for a 500 GB SSD. Instead of my current HARD drive cloning, I decided to do a new installation on the new SSD. I don't have a Windows 7 disc, but fortunately, HP includes a recovery with any purchase of Elitebook disc.

  However, I have read elsewhere that using a recovery on a disc SSD is a bad idea because it will lead to "problems of alignment." Well, to tell you the truth, I have no idea what this means, but it sounds bad.

  Yes, I wonder if it is safe to put in my SSD boot on my recovery disk and install Windows 7 like that.

  On an unrelated note, I read a lot of guides on the installation and optimization of SSDS. They say all the different things, which is a little intimidating. (Some people even say to ignore that these guides because many of them were written long ago, back when SSD was still in their infancy, and SSD of today do not need to be optimized.)

  In any case, is one of the things that all the guides say to use the AHCI mode, which is an option that I'm supposed to be able to find in my BIOS (I haven't checked, so I do not know!). My question is: when I should change it to AHCI mode? Before leaving my old HDD and installing my SSD? Or after putting in the SSD? Everything I know about AHCI is that it is supposed to make the SSD run faster.

  Thanks for all the helpful tips!

  Clarissa

  BIOS of your laptop are already set to default AHCI, you need not worry about this. Problems with SSDS come to use a SSD that is smaller than the smallest drive available on the series. In such cases, the recovery discs are confused. You propose to use a 500 GB SSD, so it shouldn't be a problem. Personally, I wouldn't do the factory restore. Instead, you can download an OEM of Windows 7 version that corrresponds to your license. Is - this Windows 7 Professional? It must be the same version, because you will use the key Code on the bottom of your laptop to turn it on. This is a link to download a completely legal, correct recovery disk OEM Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit:

  http://MSFT.digitalrivercontent.NET/win/X17-24281.ISO

  It is an .iso. This can be burned to a DVD disc can be used. Return ticket if you have questions, but Windows 7 with a disk image utility that should allow you to do or a software like Nero burning also will burn an .iso on a disc. You can't just burn the .iso to a disk image file. It has integrated Service Pack 1 so you can avoid this first huge update. You can copy the laptop hard drive swsetup folder and it will have all the drivers and software pre-installed. You can also use Windows Easy Transfer to create a file that will restore the files and the browser settings and preferences. If you need assistance.

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• G6-2301ax: g6-2301ax hdd upgrade to ssd.

  last 2months.my labtop(g6-2301ax) is so slow (always the start-up time more than 2 minutes and runnig so slow program) that I intend to level hdd to ssd (samsung 850 evo) so I 3questions.
  1. This ssd comparible with my labtop?
  2.slow - operation problems relationship with hard disk or other hardware (processor, memory, etc...)?

  The SSD is compatible. Difficult to say why the laptop is so slow. The A8 processor should be sufficient. 4 to 8 GB RAM upgrade might be a good idea, too. Before you spend money on hardware upgrade, however, I run a complete diagnosis of the hardware test in the diagnosis of UEFI by typing esc or F2 as you power and proceed to "diagnoses" and run all the tests.

• Portege R700 - how to upgrade the BIOS?

  Hello

  I'm trying to update the BIOS of my R700 computers with a command line on Windows 7 (x 86 edition french).
  I am using the version of the BIOS is P007Bv170_EC73V140.

  I downloaded the bios - 20101112151130.zip official website of Toshiba. In the zip file, there is no statement (no file Readme.txt or other help... files).

  Is there a way to upgrade in silent mode in the BIOS?
  Thank you for your help,

  Vincent

  Hey,.

  You need to run the exe file you will find in archive zip you downloaded. After this update the BIOS will start.

  But before this update, unzip all files and close all running programs. Also, make sure that you are logged on as administrator.

• Inspiron 530 main HDD Upgrade to SSD

  I have an Inspiron 530 I put Windows 7. I thought that, rather than trying to upgrade the operating system, I would like to add a new drive to do a clean install of 7 on and make my player existing secondary drive for data. Following the same process of thought, I thought I'd go with a Solid State Drive for the primary drive would give an additional performance gain.

  Anyone know of any "Pitfalls" that wanted me to use an SSD as my main drive on my 530?

  Hi Dhorlo, all hard disks are now plug ' don't play, which includes the new discs SSD, so you won't have any problems using this drive on a 530.

• Satellite L655-16F - Factory reset using Recovery Media discs

  OK so I'll try to reset my Toshiba Satellite L655-16th back to factory settings, then he started giving me the out of memory error message, but I don't have that drives it asked me to do when I got the laptop, so when I do the F8 all start up and go to the screen with the Toshiba HDD recovery resetting thing and click on it It gives me this error message:

  * HDDRecoGUI *.
  Operating system recovery is impossible!
  Not found the HDD Recovery folder on the second disc of the first hard drive.
  There is no valid disk HARD recovery environment on this computer.

  I tried various different things; Press 0 - which gave me a screen asking you what operating system, I wanted to use (there is only Windows 7) then just continued to load as usual. Put the first disc in and restart my laptop (which I have pretty well every time anyway) - which did nothing. etc.
  So yes, is there a way to create the file from HARD drive of mystery I need the disks, or maybe another way to use the disks that I have not already tried?

  > Not found HDD Recovery folder on the second disc of the first hard drive.
  > There is no valid disk HARD recovery environment on this computer.
  This message appears if you have deleted the recovery image or changed the structure of the partitions on the HARD disk.

  If you have created disk or recovery disk that you can install the recovery using the recovery DVD image.

  Start your laptop and meadows F12 repeatedly to enter the boot menu.
  Place the recovery disc into the optical disc drive.
  In the menu choose the CD/DVD drive.
  Press ENTER.
  Follow the menu on the screen.

• Laptop HP Pavilion TS 15: change boot order - using recovery media

  I'm having a problem with the use of the support of the recovery disks. 1st disk works perfectly, 74% in 2nd drive, said copy file fails. Recently, I replaced the HARD drive.  If I change the boot order to CD-ROM first, it will make a difference? Help!

  Hi@geegeesgirl,

  Welcome to the HP's Support Forums. Best platform for all kinds of solutions, tips and settings for your questions/problems.

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  Need help to install Windows. Is this fair?

  Thank you for sharing the details of the problem. I want to help you.

  The question seems to be for various reasons. I ask that you are looking for the following.

  • Check if all the disks are clean and there are has no scratches what so ever.

  Also, try the HP Diagnostics first on the hard drive to see it passes or fails. Use the link below to perform the diagnostics.

  http://HP.care/2bOrqZQ

  I hope this helps. Please update the State.

  Happy announcement.

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• Error when you use Recovery Media Creator

  Hello world

  I hope someone can help me please.

  We recently bought a laptop L750 and I tried 3 times to create the media recovery and just when I reach the end of the first diskette, it comes up with an error cannot write file or something like that, if anyone has experienced this problem and how they solve this problem?

  Thank you very much

  Nel

  It's that you can't fix anything. Either it works or not.

  In General, if your laptop is in the factory and you didn t change anything, creation of recovery disks should work fine. What you can try is the use of different blank media. I recommend you to use high quality as TDK or Verbatim media.

  Please try again using one of these empty media.
  And Yes, please only use DVD-R discs.

• Satellite A300D - cannot use recovery media

  Hello!
  This is what happens...
  I ordered a few days ago a media recovery disk, I put in a laptop and... Start step by step and after the recovery then this is the watch to the top:

  Image for Windows tool

  Progress: 100%

  Image applied successfully

  Unzip the Vista operating system

  L ' ImageX for Windows tool
  Copyright...

  PROGRESS: 2% 12:37 minutes
  [Warning] C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll Adobe. [Unzip the file: -> file corrupted block at offset 01C8A49F]

  [Retry] Restoring to new Adobe C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll...

  [Warning] C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll Adobe. [Unzip the file: -> file corrupted block at offset 01C8A49F]

  [Retry] Restoring to new Adobe C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll...

  [Warning] C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll Adobe. [Unzip the file: -> file corrupted block at offset 01C8A49F]

  [Retry] Restoring to new Adobe C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll...

  [Warning] C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll Adobe. [Unzip the file: -> file corrupted block at offset 01C8A49F]

  [Retry] Restoring to new Adobe C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll...

  [Error: 1392] C:\Program 8.0\Reader\vdk150.dll Adobe

  Error restoring image

  The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable

  ImageX error: could not get Visa V:\HDDRecvery\SwImgz06819XPS.swm Index 2 hard drive C:!

  Press a key to continue...

  And when I tray to do his show once again the same massage but with different files!

  CAN YOU HELP ME, PLEASE! because I have no idea what to do now

  Thank you.

  Hello

  If you cannot use this contact Arvato to order it, explain the situation and ask if you can get a new one. I can't say for sure what the problem is, but I can imagine that this recovery disk is troublemaker.

  What else can be? HARD DRIVE? I don t think so.

• Cannot use recovery media - bad machine - Satellite A55-S106

  Hello

  My laptop recently got the blue screen of death and had to reformat my laptop. I jumped the drive and much to my surprise he told me bad machine
  even if it's the drive that came with it when I bought it. Now I don't know what to do any suggestions?

  As said by Feliks, look on the Toshiba site.

  In this bulletin to support there is a solution for this problem. You must restore the credentials of your model (DMI channels) so you can restore the factory software.

• Can't use recovery error 'Machine wrongly' DVD occurs

  My Center dealer/replaced motherboard, when I had a problem starting. My recovery DVDs that originally comes with the laptop no longer works. When I start recovery procedure followed by message is displayed: "Machine wrongly".

  Is it possible to download a new one on the Toshiba site? If yes where exactly?
  My product is recorded in October 2004.

  Hello

  If you use a wrong as term to search on this forum, that you will find in many similar markets. When the motherboard is changed DMI information must be updated. Without this identification information is not possible.

  I recommend you contact the service again. They will update to DMI information and you will be able to use recovery media again.

  Good luck!