How to reinstall windows 7 on a Toshiba laptop. Toshiba Satellite Windows installation with a tambourine

The next article in the series devoted to restoring laptops from different manufacturers to factory settings from the recovery section is dedicated to Toshiba laptops.

I want to warn you right away that restoring Toshiba laptops to the factory state takes much longer than similar actions with laptops of most other manufacturers (although this is a fairly long process for everyone), therefore it is very important that the laptop is connected to the mains and has a full battery charge. in case of power outages.

And, of course, all the necessary preparations must be made. I wrote about this in more detail in the article, so read it if you have not read it yet. All further steps assume that you have followed all the recommendations described in it.

So, to start the recovery environment from the recovery partition stored on the hard drive of your Toshiba laptop, you need to press the F8 button when turning on the computer, as if we wanted to select the boot mode. If you have never done this before and do not know at what point to press the button, then after switching on, simply click on it until the following menu appears on the display:

We select the item "Troubleshooting computer problems", which comes first in the list and press the Enter key.

You will soon be prompted to select a recovery language. After choosing the language settings of interest to us, click "Next".

After that, we will be prompted to select a user on whose behalf the procedure will be launched. You will also need to enter a password if you have one.

After completing the required steps, click OK.

When you run the utility, a warning appears stating that all data will be overwritten. We will also be warned about the need to connect the network adapter.

Since it is assumed that we have completed all the necessary preparations for this moment, we press the "Yes" button (I apologize for the poor image quality).

Now you will need to select a recovery option. Since this article is dedicated to restoring Toshiba notebooks to factory settings, select the item "Restore factory default software" and click "Next".

By the way of recovery, we indicate "Restore to the state at the time of purchase (Taking into account the options for restoring the system)" and again click "Next".

We will be warned again that all data will be lost. Click "Next".

After these steps, preparation for system recovery will start.

And soon the recovery procedure will start, which will take some time.

You need to wait until a message appears stating that the recovery has been completed and we will be asked to click the "Finish" button to restart the computer. Click "Finish"

But that's not all. As they say, the haircut has just begun. As I mentioned, the process will take a long time. The consolation is that our presence is not required. All further actions will be performed automatically, including periodic computer reboots. In the meantime, you can do your household chores.

The signal that the recovery is completely completed and the laptop is ready for use will be an invitation to select the operating system language.

This concludes the article on how to return a Toshiba laptop to factory settings.

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If you notice that your Toshiba laptop is running slower than before, or errors and crashes are starting to appear in its work, then it's time to start reinstalling the operating system. Freezes and other problems can be related to the hardware component, but most often they occur due to incorrect operation of the operating system and programs. In any case, try reinstalling Windows on your Toshiba laptop before disassembling the machine and digging into its components. Using a branded recovery disc, you can complete this procedure in just a few clicks.

Instructions for reinstalling Windows 7 on Toshiba laptops

1. Open the CD / DVD drive using the button on the drive cover.
2. Place the recovery disc that came with your laptop here.
3. Close the tray and send the computer to reboot.
4. In the first seconds after the computer starts booting, press the "F12" button. In the list that appears on the screen, select "CD / DVD" - this is the device from which the system will boot. Press Enter.
5. Select "Toshiba Recovery Wizard" in the window that appears. Then click Next.
6. In most cases, you will be asked to choose between "Windows 7 32-bit" or "Windows 7 64-bit". Make your choice. Click "Next".
7. Select "Recovery of Factory Default Software" and click the "Next" button. Then select "Recover to Out-Of-Box State" and click "Next" again.
8. Click Next again and then Finish. The process of reinstalling Windows on your Toshiba laptop will begin. When all the necessary actions are completed, the computer will restart itself and you will receive a newly installed Windows 7 operating system.

You don't need to do anything else to reinstall Windows on your Toshiba laptop. It remains to install the applications that are needed for work and restore data. You didn't forget to make a backup copy of all important documents at the very beginning, did you?

The following explains how to recover a Toshiba laptop with Windows Vista or Windows 7 preinstalled from the hard drive using the hard drive recovery procedure.
There are two different recovery wizards discussed below. The first is the Toshiba Hard Drive Recovery tool and the second is the TOSHIBA Recovery Wizard.

a) Recover from Toshiba Hard Drive

Step 1 - Beginning the Hard Drive Recovery Procedure

Step 2 - Performing a Hard Drive Recovery

Step 3 - Completing the Recovery Process

b) TOSHIBA Recovery Wizard

Starting the Hard Drive Recovery Procedure

Process # 1 - Restore Factory Default Software (Restore to the state the system was in at the time of purchase)

There are three ways to recover your laptop.
All of them will be discussed below.

1. Recover to out-of-box-state (including System Recovery Options)
   
   This option allows you to restore your laptop to the state in which it was shipped from the factory by default. The sections will be deleted and recreated as they were when they were first loaded.

   

   Next (Next).

   
   

   Next (Next).

   
   

   After initialization, the recovery process will start automatically.

   
   

   At the end of the recovery process, a CRC check will be performed.

   
   

   After checking the CRC, the recovery will complete, and you will need to click the button Finishto restart your computer.

   
   

2. Recover without changing the hard drive partitions
   

   

   The following warning message will appear on the screen:

   The first section will be deleted. You will lose all data in this section.
   Are you sure you want to continue?

   To start recovery, click the button Next (Next).

   
   

   If you are sure you have saved all your data and want to start, click Next (Next).

   The section will be initialized.
   

3. Recover to a custom size partition
   

   Select the desired size for the system drive C (for example 260 GB), then click Next (Next), to continue.

   

   The following warning message will appear on the screen:

   All sections will be deleted. You will lose all data on your hard drive.
   Are you sure you want to continue?

   To start recovery, click the button Next (Next).

   

   If you are sure you have saved all your data and want to start, click Next (Next).

   The section will be initialized.
   From this point on, the further procedure is exactly the same as the above process of restoration to the state in which the system was at the time of acquisition.

Process 2 - Erase the hard disk (deletes all data and partitions from the hard disk)

There are two ways to clean your laptop hard drive.
They will be discussed below.

Delete all data and partitions from the hard disk (quick delete process)






The following warning message will appear on the screen:

CAUTION!












Click the button Finishto turn off the computer.



"Delete all partitions and overwrite all sectors on the hard disk" (very slow deletion process)

This process can take several hours. Its duration depends on the size of the hard drive.



The following warning message will appear on the screen:

CAUTION!
As a result of this operation, you will lose all data on your hard drive.

Data on the following hard drives will be deleted.
1. Toshiba MKxxxxxxxGSX (example)

If you do not want to delete the data on the above hard drives, click the "Cancel" button.
If you have an external hard drive connected to your system, it will be among the ones listed above.
However, if you do not want to delete data on the external hard drive, disconnect it from your computer.
A few seconds after disconnecting, the hard disk name will disappear from the list, then you can continue.

Click the Next button to start deleting data on the hard drives listed above.




Data on hard drives will be deleted.



When the uninstallation is complete, the following screen will appear.

All data and partitions have been deleted.
Click the button Finishto turn off the computer.

Everyone knows the consequences of updating windows to 10. Someone just doesn't like it, someone is not comfortable, etc. But when they bring a laptop and say you need to reinstall windows to save the data, you think it's a trifling matter ... But it's better not to say that at first 🙂

And so, a Toshiba laptop appeared on my desk. In principle, a banal task, save, install and give away. But something went wrong ...

It all started with the fact that the data refused to be copied normally to an external hard drive. But a strange decision at that time was made, to copy to the second logical disk. It seems like everything went well after that, the data was preserved. We successfully went to reboot, went into bios, disabled security boot and uefi. And they began to install windows 7 ... Seven on the cut said at once, there is no hard disk. To say that you were surprised is to say nothing. Anyway. We go to the hard Acronis disk director, which tells us that the disk is in gpt. Here was the first jamb on my part. Well, I think, let's convert the first logical partition to mbr, and leave the second in gpt. But apparently Acronis disk director had a different opinion and decided not to bother like me, but just took and converted the entire disk to mbr.

Well, all data is already lost! We have to do further, boot again from 7 and start the installation ... After the first reboot after installation, the installation does not continue, we get a black screen with a logo and wild attempts to boot ... The effect is zero! I start to smoke the forums, everyone is just acroming me ... I look at the sticker on the bottom of the laptop, and there it looks at me 8 ... Well, I think, then we will put 8, the client does not care, the main thing is not 10 ... We load 8, start the installation and we get:

Well, I think it means that the distribution kit is crooked ... It happens ... But after trying all the available distributions, I realized that the problem is not in them ...

Not only is the time already 4 in the morning, and the laptop has also gotten out of date and due to overheating goes into shutdown ... It was decided to take a break and think.

The next day, I decided to bet 7, but approach this issue differently. I booted from the distribution kit and went into recovery, waited until windows successfully repaired me with the words "Well, I don't have a backup copy" ... I started my favorite console 🙂

MS DOS

diskpart list disk select disk 0 clean exit

CLEAN - Clears configuration information or all data on disk.

After rebooting and trying again to install windows 7, everything finally fell into place and began to work as it should.

For reference, the patient was: Toshiba Satellite l50-a-k8s

Installing (reinstalling) WINDOWS XP

How to install Windows * on a computer. This article describes only the basic steps. Many people think that this is a difficult procedure, but in fact, everything is not so difficult and an experienced user can do it on their own.

How to reinstall Windows.
If you decide to rearrange the operating system, then in addition you will have to reinstall all programs and drivers. We strongly recommend that you clean your entire hard drive before installing to avoid accumulating junk.
1) Copy all required data to external media
2) Find discs with device drivers for your computer or download drivers from the Internet. You can also use the DriverMax program, it will create a copy of all the drivers and after reinstalling you just need to run the program and specify the path to the saved drivers
FURTHER

How to install Windows.
We will give an example of installing the Windows XP SP3 operating system on a Toshiba Satellite L300D-20M laptop.
1) First, let's make the computer boot from the CD. To do this, you need to enter BIOS and select DVD-ROM as the first boot device. For this laptop, this is done as follows: at the start screen, press the “F2” key, after which we get to the BIOS control screen. Select the “Boot” submenu, find the CD / DVD item and make it a priority (we raise it to the very top). We save with the “F10” key and exit the BIOS. (Another option: at the start screen press “F12” and choose to boot from DVD) **
2) When booting, a message appears asking whether to boot from disk (Press any key to boot from CD), just press any key.
3) Next, you need to mark the hard drive and choose where to install the system. We decided to split the disk into 2 partitions: the first - for the system and programs with a size of 100GB, the second - for personal files (movies, photos, etc.), all the remaining 130GB space will be used for it. Delete all previously created sections with the "D" key. Use the "C" key to select the partition creation and assign the size to 100000MB. Once again, select the "unallocated area" and create a partition for all the remaining space. After that, start the installation by selecting the "C" drive and pressing "ENTER". Let's select "Format partition in NTFS system".
4) After copying the files and starting the installation, the system will ask you to enter the key, then specify: region, language, time and network settings. We configure it as convenient for us.
5) At the end of the installation, the system will ask you to enter the account name.
6) The whole system is installed, we install drivers and programs, after which the system is ready for use.

*) the article deals with installing Windows XP
**) Initially, during installation, the system gave out a blue screen, this was due to the operating mode of the SATA controller (in this assembly of Windows there are no drivers for the operation of this laptop, if the SATA controller mode is enabled - AHCI). To solve this problem, you must either write the drivers for XP to a floppy disk and load them with the F6 key at the beginning of the installation, or go to the BIOS, select the “Advanced” submenu, select “SATA Controller Mode” and select the “Compatibility” mode. There is another way in which you do not need to disable the mode SATA. To do this, you need to download the SATA drivers for this laptop, write them to a floppy disk and load them by pressing the "F6" key during system installation. (Also, you can not use a floppy disk, but add SATA drivers to the distribution using the Nlite program and burn the installation disk for the laptop)

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