I Can Not Restore My Toshiba Satelite To Factory Settings.

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Asked: December 2, 20212021-12-02T14:34:23+00:00 2021-12-02T14:34:23+00:00In: Windows 8

I Can Not Restore My Toshiba Satelite To Factory Settings.

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When I hold the 0 down and then tap the power button I get this red box saying the Hard Drive Recovery Process has been selected. I press yes or no or x it and it shuts the computer off. I have removed my password.

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Computing Staff · Answer 1 · 2021-12-02T14:34:52+00:00

Before you set about restoring the Toshiba to factory settings…, have you safeguarded – as in copied – all your personal files off the system? Typically to DVD but an external hard drive too is nice(r)?

The factory reset/restore routine will erase “all your personal files” in the process; which is why I suggest you take steps to preserve them first.

What model Toshiba do you have?

Why the need to go the drastic step of factory reset/restore?

This is an earlier post here at CN; note the suggestion to instigate the reset via Windows itself:

http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id…

This one may be a better method:

http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/8606…

Did you “ever” make the recovery disk set which Toshiba (and other manufacturers too) advise when you first receive the computer?