Toshiba Portege A600 - Manual (Page 35)

User’s Manual 1-15
Getting Started
1. Load the Recovery Media into the optical disc drive and turn off the
computer's power.
2. while holding down F12 key on the keyboard, turn on your computer
when the TOSHIBA logo screen appears, release the F12 key.
3. Use the left and right cursors key to select the appropriate icon
(CD-ROM or USB icon) of your actual recovery media from the menu.
Please refer to the Boot Priority section in Chapter 7, , for further
information.
4. A menu will be displayed from which you should follow the on-screen
instructions.
Restoring the pre-installed software from the Recovery hard disk
drive
A portion of the total hard disk drive space is configured as a hidden
recovery partition. This partition stores files which can be used to restore
pre-installed software in the event of a problem.
If you subsequently set up your hard disk drive again, do not change,
delete or add partitions in a manner other than specified in the manual,
otherwise you may find that space for the required software is not available.
In addition, if you use a third-party partitioning program to reconfigure the
partitions on your hard disk drive, you may find that it becomes impossible
to setup your computer.
1. Turn off your computer.
2. While holding down 0 (zero) key on the keyboard, turn on your
computer when the TOSHIBA logo screen appears,release the 0 (zero)
key.
3. A menu will be displayed from which you should follow the on-screen
instructions.
When you reinstall the Windows operating system, the hard disk will be
reformatted and all data will be lost.
When drivers/utilities are installed, you can setup the respective
drivers/utilities from the following place.
To open the setup files, Click Start  All Programs  TOSHIBA 
Applications and Drivers.
When the sound mute feature has been activated by pressing the
FN + ESC key, be sure to disable this to allow sounds to be heard before
starting the restore process. Please refer to Chapter 5, , for further details.
You can not use System Recovery Options if restoring the pre-installed
software without System Recovery Options.
When you reinstall the Windows operating system, the hard disk will be
reformatted and all data will be lost.