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  I need to reformat the hard drive to my PC by Satellite. I inserted the disc 1, off, turned back on while pressing F12. I chose 'clear the hard disk', and this part of the process went well. It took about 1.5 hours. However, he never asked the other disk. All I get now when I turn it on is a black screen with the letter 'j' in the upper left.

  Can you tell me what to do now to re - install the default software/settings of recovery disks?

  Thank you!

  Jin

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  To be honest, I do not know what that letter, j, means :) BU I know, the 1st recovery disk contains bones with driver and another disc with Toshiba Utilities. Perhaps, you should go to Bios and set hdd under the 1st boot device rather id cd/dvdrom

• Cannot access the HARD disk drive HARD - Satellite P300 recovery

  Hi all

  I want to perform a Toshiba product recovery, using the partition on the HARD disk. I did it before and no problem.

  But when I press F8--> computer repair--> selection language--> then I have to select a user (Administrator / my name/guest) when I select the administrator, it says that my account has been disabled, when I select the user with my name (Kenneth) he continues to the menu where I can choose the different options for recovery. If I select the product Toshiba blah blah thingy a screen comes up saying it can't find 01 HARD drive. I did nothing with the partition containing Vista.

  My guess is that I need to log in as an administrator, which is impossible. My user account in Vista is a Director,

  Can someone please?

  I use a P300

  Best regards
  Kenneth

  You have made changes on the second partition where is placed folder HDDRecovery?

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  The original hard disk drive has been damaged, and I replaced it the installation a professional version of windows 7, 32 bit.

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  I tried before solving the problem using Microsoft Fix it but failed.

  Please, I need your help!

  OK what I mean try, reboot your system with the Windows cd again and see if your dvdrwe drive cannot read the disc. Unfortunately, you can have a bad disk but before ruling out, you need to do some troubleshooting steps more. Did you try and install your DVD - RW drive on another pc will exclude both software and hardware, or if you can install another drive on your pc. Good luck

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  read this tutorial on how to clean install vista

  the figures used are only an example

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  2 buy or borrow a USB disk drive hard put in yout case then plug it into another computer and read the hard drive like this

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• Reformat the hard drive and a clean reinstall of Vista

  Hello
  I was wondering if you could advise me if this is possible.
  I have Vista on a partition, a home machine built dual boot (with XP), who begins to fill. I decided to stop using XP, which

  is sitting on the second partition of the hard drive, and I want to reformat the disk and a partition with Vista on it. Taking into

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  On Thu, September 16, 2010 08:40:58 + 0000, rainb0wman wrote:

  I was wondering if you could advise me if this is possible. I have Vista on a partition, a home machine built dual boot (with XP), who begins to fill. I decided to stop using XP, which

  is sitting on the second partition of the hard drive, and I want to reformat the disk and a partition with Vista on it. Taking into

  mind, I'm not bothered about losing all the data and save nothing, in my opinion, I don't want to lose, can I just reformat the hard disk into a single

  Partition and reinstall Vista?

  Yes. Do a clean install of Vista and leave this formatting occur
  the first stage of the installation.a

  I'm sure that the answer is Yes, but my main concern is to ensure my "serial key".

  You mean the product key, not series.

  is accepted and that the activation
  process will go smoothly.

  You can reinstall and reactivate as many times as you need or want.
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• I need the driver for my external HARD disk drive

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  Martine André

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