Restore Disk

[Guest]

I have a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP and the Hard Drive went bad, so i had
a new hard drive instaled by the Geek Squad about half a year ago. Thay did
not use the Restore Disk that came with the Laptop and it has never been
opened, so will this Restore Disk still work with my Laptop or not.

 

[Guest]

Hard to say, you might have a restore partition and they used that, you
should have asked the guy.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP and the Hard Drive went bad, so i had
a new hard drive instaled by the Geek Squad about half a year ago. Thay did
not use the Restore Disk that came with the Laptop and it has never been
opened, so will this Restore Disk still work with my Laptop or not.

I hope that the regulars here appreciate how bad it hurts for me to
bite my tongue on this one.

 

[Curt Christianson]

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| >I have a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP and the Hard Drive went bad, so i
had
| >a new hard drive instaled by the Geek Squad about half a year ago. Thay
did
| >not use the Restore Disk that came with the Laptop and it has never been
| >opened, so will this Restore Disk still work with my Laptop or not.
|
| I hope that the regulars here appreciate how bad it hurts for me to
| bite my tongue on this one.

 

[Guest]

Ok Uncle Grumpy, tell all

I hope that the regulars here appreciate how bad it hurts for me to
bite my tongue on this one.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Ok Uncle Grumpy, tell all

You can't ****ing spell (that's a clue):

"instaled"

"Thay"

There is no need to capitalize "Hard Drive", but there IS a need to
capitalize "i".

No need to capitalize "Restore Disk" or "Laptop".

That said... you have had a problem for a "half a year" and you are
now just getting around to trying to fix it?

DUMBASS.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

NEVER use Geek Squad! Never trust your machine to ANYONE who doesn't
carefully go over everything they are going to do with you (and even if Geek
Squad seems to do that, don't trust them.).

Question: If the machine now runs after replacing the drive, and the Restore
CD you have has never been opened, where did the GS get the installation? Or
did they manage to clone the old drive to the new? If the latter, it should
also still contain any Restore Partition, The CD should work just fine.

Can't tell you any more without more info. You should go to the machine's
manufacturer's website and check into the manual to see if you can determine
exactly how a Restore is accomplished. You can also use Disk Management or
some other partition tool to see if there is a hidden, un-lettered partition
that looks about the right size. Around a GB, I would guess.

 

[M.I.5¾]

You can't ****ing spell (that's a clue):

"instaled"

"Thay"

There is no need to capitalize "Hard Drive", but there IS a need to
capitalize "i".

No need to capitalize "Restore Disk" or "Laptop".

That said... you have had a problem for a "half a year" and you are
now just getting around to trying to fix it?

DUMBASS.

Well you did ask!