I just recently found this program on my computer and i don't know what it does.
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Its called TOSHIBA Recovery Disc Creator. Someone told me it resets your machine back to when you originally bought like if you reinstalled Vista. Is that what it does?
Yes, you boot from these disks to restore your Windows and computer to the state it was when you bought your computer. This is used in the event your computer becomes unbootable. You can accomplish the same thing by imaging your system with an imaging program. If you do this on a routine basis, you will not only be able to restore your OS, but you will be able to restore all of your data. Some of us here use the free program, Macrium Reflect for imaging. Here is a tutorial on the subject: Imaging with free Macrium
It'll work if you didn't blast your recovery partition when you installed Windows 7.
If you removed that partition you probably can't create the disk and all is lost.
Attempt to make the Recovery Disk set so you can restore your computer when the RC stops working.
If it will not work, let's see if you still have a bootable Recovery Partition which you can trigger during bootup to do the same thing. But you'll have to back up your files first.
Check your manual to see how the Recovery works exaclty on your model Toshiba.
I would darn sure be backing up all of my files to an external hard drive beginning now. I did not realize you were running Windows 7 RC.
The above is spot on. Forget about imaging your drive with imaging software for now. Just get your files backed up.It'll work if you didn't blast your recovery partition when you installed Windows 7.
If you removed that partition you probably can't create the disk and all is lost.
I urge you to purchase Windows 7 or some OS before June 1st.
First off, CarlTR6 eludes to a very important point. Search this or other tech forums and notice how many users "lost" data and are looking for ways to recover it. As CarlTR6 notes, imaging is THE answer. Develop and follow an imaging backup regimen religiously.
That said, Macrium is a good app but, in my case, I find that Acronis creates faster and smaller image files using its "normal" settings. If you have at least one Seagate HDD in your machine, you can go to Seagate and DL the free Discwizard, which is Acronis with some functions disabled (cannot create image backups of individual files/directories or make incremental/differential backups). Similarly, if you have at least one WD HDD, you can go to WD and DL their free HDD-specific version of Acronis. Either version will create image backups of any HDD as long as you have at least one Seagate or WD HDD in you system.
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