Toshiba SATELLITE A500 - Manual (Page 66)

66 Getting Started
Recovering the Internal Storage Drive
6 The Recovery of Factory Default Software screen appears.
Select Recover to a custom size portion.
(Sample Image) Recovery of Factory Default Software screen
7 Use the on-screen arrow buttons in The size of drive C: field
to set the partition size.
8 Click Next.
A confirmation message displays reminding you that all data
will be lost during the recovery process. Be sure to save your
work to external media before proceeding.
9 Click Next to begin the recovery.
When the process is complete, a message displays indicating
that the C: drive has been recovered.
10 Press any key on the keyboard to restart the computer.
Recovering without changing the internal storage drive partitions
Recovering without changing the internal storage drive partitions
deletes all information stored on the C: drive. Be sure to save your
work to external media before executing the recovery. If you have
created other partitions (for example, a D: drive), those partitions will
remain intact and any information on them will not be affected.
During the internal storage drive recovery process it is strongly
recommended that your computer be connected to an external power
source via the AC adaptor. NOTE