Toshiba Libretto U100 - Manual (Page 68)

3-18 User’s Manual
Getting Started
A recovery image of your computer is stored on the hard disk. You may use
this image to create CD or DVD recovery discs using the following steps:
1. Select either blank CD or DVD media.
2. The application will allow you to choose from a variety of media when
creating the recovery discs including: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW,
DVD+R and DVD+RW.
3. Turn on your computer to open Windows XP.
4. Insert the first blank media into the tray of the optical drive.
5. Double click the Recovery Disc Creator Launcher icon on the Windows
XP desktop, or select the application from the start Menu.
6. After Recovery Disc Creator starts, select the type of media and the title
you wish to copy to the media then click the Burn button.
Restoring the preinstalled software from the recovery hard
disk drive
About 2GB of hard disk space is reserved for the recovery partition.
When re-setting up your hard disk, do not change, delete or add partitions
in a manner other than specified in the manual. Otherwise, space for
software may be destroyed.
In addition, if you use a third-party partitioning program to reconfigure
partitions on your hard disk, it may become impossible to re-setup your
computer.
1. Turn off your computer.
2. While holding down 0 (zero) key on the keyboard, turn on your
computer.
Some media may not be compatible with the Optical Drive of your
computer. Please ensure that the Optical Drive supports the blank media
you choose.
RecordNow! Basic for TOSHIBA is required to create the Recovery Discs.
Other disc writing software is not supported.
■ If your Optical Drive can only write to CDs, select “CD” as the “Type”
within the Recovery Disc Creator. If your Optical Drive of your
computer can write to either CD or DVDs, select the one you are using
as the “Type” within the Recovery Disc Creator.
■ You can also create the recovery CD for the Express Media Player
using the Recovery Disc Creator.
This feature is only available for models which are configured for hard disk
recovery. For these models Product Recovery media is not supplied with
the computer.