Toshiba Portege A600 - Manual (Page 34)

User’s Manual 1-14
Getting Started
3. Turn on your computer and allow it to load the Windows 7 operating
system from the hard disk drive as normal.
4. Insert the media into the computer.
■ Insert the first blank disc into the optical disc drive tray, or
■ Insert the USB Flash Memory into one available USB port.
5. Double click the Recovery Media Creator icon on the Windows 7
desktop, or select the application from Start Menu.
6. After Recovery Media Creator starts, select the type of media and the
title you wish to copy, the screen will display the number of discs or the
capacity of USB Flash Memory required. Make sure you have a
sufficient number of discs or sufficient capacity of USB Flash Memory
before you proceed with the Recovery Media process.
7. Click the Create button to proceed.
Restoring the pre-installed software from your created Recovery
Media
If the pre-installed files are damaged, you are able to either use the
Recovery Media you have created or the hard disk drive recovery process
to restore the computer to the state it was in when you originally received it.
To perform this restoration, follow the steps below:
Please note that some of the above media may not be compatible with the
optical disc drive installed into your computer. You should therefore verify
the optical disc drive supports the blank media you have chosen before
proceeding.
USB Flash Memory will be formatted and all the data in the USB Flash
Memory will be lost when proceeding.
If your optical disc drive can write both CDs and DVDs, select 'DVD' as the
'Disc Set' within the Recovery Media Creator application.
A recovery DVD, created according to the Creating Recovery Media
section in this chapter, is required to restore the software. In order to
create a recovery DVD, an external optical disc drive is required for
models which are not equipped with an internal optical disc drive. It can be
purchased from TOSHIBA dealers.
■ This machine supporting the following optical disc drives for restoring
the pre-installed software:
■ External DVD Super Multi Drive PA3454U
■ External DVD-ROM Drive PA3438U
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.