Satellite U300-13U does not start and the recovery disc fails to too much work

Hi all

I have the above computer (or should I say my wife) & it is nothing that a good pain since the first day we got it.
I have had it about 2 years & had to reformat the HD at least 6-8 times using the product recovery disc as laptop starts.
The laptop runs Vista.

In any case, problem I have now is that new laptop does not start, but for some reason any product recovery disc also does not work...
What I can do...

I have read on various forums that it might work if I reformat the HD first using some s/w on a bootable CD but how / what S/W can I use...?
The laptop has a SATA HD 160 GB installed. How can I check that it all works.
I don't know if the current problem is S/W or related material...

Toshiba has a utility that I can use...?

Thanks a lot for all the help...

John

Hello

What happened exactly?
Do you receive error messages by using the recovery disk?

Check if the HARD drive is OK! You can check in the BIOS.
If the HARD drive is listed in the BIOS then the HARD drive and HARD drive found BIOS is not dead.

Usually, you might start Notepad with the help of a Live disc for example Bart PE
It s a bootable windows CD/DVD live

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

This can allows you to format the HARD disk, and then use the recovery disc!

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