New Toshiba Satellite Laptop

[wei]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

 

[George Anthony]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

Look in your programs menu. There should be an option to make recovery
disks.

 

[GMAN]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

There should be an app under programs that allows you to created your own
recover set using DVD-R's.

 

[Nil]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought
over the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an
installation disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on
it, but it does bother me that there was not at least a recovery
disk for it. Nor does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers
in its own partition or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the
needed drivers in a re-install, but maybe not.

You should ask the seller about this. I believe that Microsoft requires
OEMs to provide recovery disks or the ability to make your own. If you
truely don't have them, you have have been given a pirate copy of
Windows.

 

[Ed Cryer]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

It should have the ex-factory set-up on a hidden recovery partition.
That's the standard these days for most OEMs. And they usually give you
an option to write the whole thing out to DVDs, after which the
partition is deleted (to avoid selling-on piracy).
This little video shows how to access the recovery mode;

If it's not there, then complain loudly.

Ed

 

[Jeff Layman]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Just get a free image backup program, buy an external USB 1Tb HD, and
make an image. Use the rest of the space on the HD for regular backups
- both image and data. You won't regret it. If you really want to be
safe, use a second hard disk, and alternate backups between the HDs.

Don't bother with anything else. Do you really want to "restore" your
laptop to it's purchase-day state when you've had it a couple of years?
That'll be a lot of good when you've lost all your data to a disk
failure or malware.

 

[Ken Blake]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Almost all OEM computers these days come with a recovery partition.
They also come with instructions on how to burn a DVD from that
partition, and that's what you should do ASAP.

 

[Dave-UK]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

I'd buy an external usb disk, make an image via Backup and Restore
and burn a repair cd while you're there to restore the image.

 

[Mellowed]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

I also have the same laptop from Toshiba. I made the recovery disks and
it took 5 DVD's.

I believe that the Microsoft Win 7 DVD is not copy protected. If you
were to borrow one or even copy one you could use your Key Code on the
bottom of your laptop and be OK. I haven't personally tried that, but I
do know of a recent HP computer that the owner wanted a clean install
eliminating the junk HP files. The computer then operated as with a
very clean install.

 

[Rob]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

You a troll as its all there on the HDD.

If your not sure look up the Toshiba site or phone the hot line.

 

[ForeverRent]

I just started up a new Toshiba Satellite laptop that I bought over
the web. I am not surprised that it did not come with an installation
disk for the pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium on it, but it does
bother me that there was not at least a recovery disk for it. Nor
does the hard drive seem to contain any drivers in its own partition
or otherwise. Now I guess W7 might have the needed drivers in a
re-install, but maybe not.

Anyway, If I have a failure, how am I to recover? Is my only choice
to quickly make and save off a backup image? What would you others
out there do?

Xiexie

Wei

If you read the manual then you would realize that you are supposed to
burn your own recovery disks, then safely store them up your ass.