Recovery Vista Help - Satellite L300-149

Hi all!

Have you tried many places and can't find the answer I'm looking for, so here I am.

My nephew has a Toshiba Satellite L300 - 149 that will not start after Windows Vista log in screen.

I want to do a complete system restore on it (ie. back to the factory settings).

Now, it was delivered without recovery disks which seems to be the norm these days so after much seraching I found directions to press the F8 key and press zero to startup.

Now... F8 displays a menu (zero key does nothing), but the menu (Options Advanced or something) does NOT include the option to fix the system. It brings up a list of other things including...

ENABLE BOOT LOGGING
ENABLE VGA MODE
LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION
DIRECTORY SERVICES
DEBUG MODE
DISABLE AUTO RE START

There are a few other options too, but not one that offers a full recovery.

Can anyone shed some light on how I can do a full restore via HARD drive, or if this model even supports the option? (There were absolutely no tampering with the OS since you bought it.) If not, where can I get the restore disks from?

Thank you

Bear

Hey,.

The exact description of recovery of the HARD drive that you can find here:
http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/HTD1303440001R01.htm

As you can see the option to fix my computer is necessary for the Toshiba HDD recovery process.

If it s is not available, you must use the Toshiba recovery disc. This disk can restore factory settings too, but the whole disk will be wiped. So if you have important data on it should perform a backup before. ;)

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