Satellite L300 - very slow start and freezes

Hi all

I have a Satellite L300, who treated me well - but more 2 months ago really slow and freezes quite often. I have anti virus, spybot etc and come up with nothing.

Last night I tried to reformat the system by pressing 0 did not work so tried with F8 which I would like to make a longer scan but no reformatting. I am now very happy that I failed to do the reformat because I bought windows 7 after the initial purchase of the laptop.

Any ideas anyone - or any person with same/simular problems?

Hey,.

This means that you have installed right now and not preinstalled version of Windows Windows 7?

Well, in this case HARD drive recovery option is no longer available. You can do it on preinstalled only Windows.

To format your laptop, you need Toshiba recovery disc.
Did you create it?

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