How to regain access to restore partition Toshiba A215

[mike]

Toshiba A215-S7462 Laptop.
I want to restore the system.
Apparently had vista on it.
Somebody overwrote with unactivated win7.

There's a restore partition. Looked at it with hirens boot CD.
Seems to have the a gigabyte of files in the restore partition.

Problem is that I can't access it.
Manual says press zero key while booting.
No joy.
Googled my ass off...no joy there either.

Is there a way to get the restore partition attached back into the
restore system so i can do a factory refresh?

[MikeS]

Post by mike
Toshiba A215-S7462 Laptop.
I want to restore the system.
Apparently had vista on it.
Somebody overwrote with unactivated win7.
There's a restore partition. Looked at it with hirens boot CD.
Seems to have the a gigabyte of files in the restore partition.
Problem is that I can't access it.
Manual says press zero key while booting.
No joy.
Googled my ass off...no joy there either.
Is there a way to get the restore partition attached back into the
restore system so i can do a factory refresh?

Use hirens boot CD or some other partition utility to unhide the restore
partition and give it a drive letter. You should then find a .exe file you
can run to start the restore. Alternatively, there should be a Toshiba
utility on the laptop to burn a bootable restore CD from the hidden
partition. If you find it that may still work.

[the wharf rat]

Post by mike
Manual says press zero key while booting.

You have to hit 0 while you power on and hold it for a couple
of seconds. But the guy who did the 7 install might have munged it.

[mike]

Post by the wharf rat

Post by mike
Manual says press zero key while booting.

You have to hit 0 while you power on and hold it for a couple
of seconds. But the guy who did the 7 install might have munged it.

Thanks, but if you'd read the part you snipped, you'd know I already
tried that.
Not a problem any more, repartitioned the drive.

[the wharf rat]

Post by mike
Thanks, but if you'd read the part you snipped, you'd know I already
tried that.

I thought maybe you didn't know that you had to hold the key
during power on and keep holding it until the recovery manager starts.

Please excuse me for trying to help.