Comments on: My Toshiba Satellite laptop cannot read recovery DVD disc

By: freddy

freddy — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:54:49 +0000

My toshiba labtop may have had a virus or hacker into it or it
May have been caused by java update. Whatever is going on, it acts
Like windows is going to load then comes to a black screen.
A minute later a coursor pops up. I loaded recovery cd in and
It wouldn’t read it. I managed to get it to read it twice, but
Both options got me nowhere. Thought I heard toshiba submitted a
Bunk, stock recovery disk and that a true one that wks needs to
Be ordered. Is this true?? Help! Black screen of death. Cant
Get recovery cd to wk

By: jinshad

jinshad — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:36:43 +0000

I have a toshiba laptop L300 preloaded with Windows Vista. I then installed pirated Windows 7 edition. Now I wanted to return to Vista and recover the laptop. I have partitioned my harddisk into the following
1. Hidden Partition of 1.47 GB ( it was alraedy there before and I had not touched it)
2. C drive containing Windows 7 40 GB
3. Unpartitioned free space about 76 GB
4. 116 GB containing personal files 116 GB

I tried a recovery disk which came with the laptop. But when I
load it, it asks me for formatting a 119 GB harddisk partition for installing Vista. I dont have any 119 GB partition. Since I am afraid of deleting my personal files, I didnt try to recover it.

Is there any way to restore my laptop without losing my personal files OR Is there any problem with my Recovery Disk?

By: Julio

Julio — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:50:34 +0000

I have a Toshiba Satellite P15 series laptop. My computer got some sort of really bad virus or trojan , It got hijacked my computer and I was not able to log on at all then I ran SUPERAntispyware and it got it out . I can turn on my computer – but my DVD player gives me a I/O error now, no matter what I do. I can’t / restore my computer via the “Restore DVD” –. I’ve cleaned the DVD drive laser with an alcohol swab, and. I’m guessing that the DVD drive connection is bad or the DVD drive is bad, it starts up again with out going in to restore. That’s the part that stumps me.
Help desperately needed.
Thanks.

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:58:54 +0000

Okay I bought a laptop about 5 or 6 months ago and never had any problems until just recently when a virus pop up came up. I ran about 3 virus scans and it didnt show that I had one, but almost everything I clicked on online it popped up. Can you tell me a solution? By the way its a Toshiba Satellite L355-S7915.

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:10:07 +0000

dan,

It successfully goes through the RAM DISK progress bar, and then it even shows a mouse pointer, but then abruptly shuts down and restarts the computer from scratch. This is really bad news if I cannot format. What should those of us experiencing this problem do?

Maybe the laptop shuts down because it overheats? Touch the bottom of your laptop. Does it feel hot? Can you hear the cooling fan inside the laptop working?

By: dan

dan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:11:39 +0000

I’m having the same problem as some other people with my Toshiba Satellite (I got it in 2006). I got a pretty bad virus and needed to reformat, so I tried booting from the recovery disc.

It successfully goes through the RAM DISK progress bar, and then it even shows a mouse pointer, but then abruptly shuts down and restarts the computer from scratch. This is really bad news if I cannot format. What should those of us experiencing this problem do?

By: brad72

brad72 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:44:47 +0000

You can buy HP/Compaq/Sony/Toshiba/Dell/Acer/IBM/Gateway/etc etc System Recovery CD or DVD (also called System Restore discs) from this website
http://www.digitalmedia-labs.com

They have almost all brands for laptop and desktop models and they ship right away. I bought for my computer and arrived extremely fast and my computer is in new condition now, everything runs like new. They also have free shipping and very nice Customer service. I had a great experience.

Good luck!

~Brad~

By: Danilo

Danilo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:45:14 +0000

My Satellite Pro 6100 instead boots regularly from masterized CD’s but not from masterized DVD’s (I tried 4X, 8X, dvd-r, dvd-rw with Nero, DVDFab and several other software).
Till now the only DVD bootable that works is its Recovery DVD.
How to solve ?
Thanks in advance.

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:09:16 +0000

I fixed my problem (posted July 21, 2009 at 9:04 pm). I just disconnected and reconnected my hard drive and I am back up and running.

By: Terri

Terri — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:04:31 +0000

In trying to clear up a minor nuisance, I really screwed up my Toshiba A60 laptop. I installed a utility program called Autoruns. This program allows you to see what programs and processes your computer is running at startup. It give you the ability to stop a process by removing the “check mark” from the box. Well I removed that I thought were harmless and that I wasn’t using. When I restarted my computer, all I got was a Toshiba welcome screen with my cursor was disable. So I used the power button to manually power down the computer. When restarting, all I get is a black screen. I tried the Toshiba Recovery CD and followed the directions by holding down the “C” key upon powering on. But I get nothing but the black screen. I am assuming the system isn’t looking at the CD-ROM first to boot up. So now what do I do? I obviously messed up the start-up process and cannot figure out how to get into my system to undo the mess I made.