Satellite Pro A300D - How can I recover HARD drive?

HI Newbie here.

Put on the machine this morning and it just says: disk error - press DELETE Cnt, was talking to the guys at PC World and they say to restart, and then press F8 I have heaps of times, but I can't access the drive recovery partition.

I have a Satellite Pro A300 with Home Prem Vista

Any help appreciated.

Thank you

Paul

Hello Paul

Well, are not good news but it shouldn't be a problem to solve this problem.

You can go into advanced with F8 boot menu? If Yes, select Repair my computer and follow the instructions on the screen. All that s. So, you can use HARD drive recovery.

If you can t go into the advanced boot menu you should use the Toshiba recovery disc. You burn it? You need to start only with her and Windows will be reinstalled.
If you don t have the recovery disc, you can order one at Toshiba directly:
https://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

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