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Toshiba Support Forums: No HDD recovery area ...The first partition on the screenshot with 1.46GB is the Windows recovery environment partition. It has nothing to do with the Toshiba HDD recovery partition.
The second partition is Windows itself and the third partition should be the Toshiba HDD recovery partition.
Anyway, if HDD recovery doesn’t work (who knows why…) you have to use the Toshiba recovery disk. With this disk it’s always possible to restore factory settings.
Do you have the Toshiba recovery disk? If not start the preinstalled Toshiba recovery media creator and follow the screen instructions.
Toshiba Support Forums: Extra partition on Satellite A660 ...
- 1,46 GB (Recovery partition) – please note this partition has nothing to do with Toshiba recovery procedure
- 453,89 GB partition – it is C partition shown in Windows Explorer
- 10,46 GB hidden partition – on this partition is saved Toshiba recovery image so if you want to use HDD recovery option do not delete it.
using the recovery partition - Toshiba ForumsThe size of the HDD partition is around 1.4 GB.
That would be the System partition, which contains the Recovery Environment and boot files and which should be set active.
In Jerry Lippey's earlier post where he talks about system recoveryAt the end of the chapter on page 4-28 it states:See the section System Recovery, which begins on p. 4-25 of the User's Manual (attached).
-Jerry
Attachments: R840_EN.pdf 3942 KB
So, if gln can return the HDD to its earlier state without any changes (but I kind if doubt it) gln can then make a "Recovery Media Disk" to help restore the Drive to its "Out of Box State".
From my second quote above:
And that is the one s/he moved into the C:\ drive.10,46 GB hidden partition – on this partition is saved Toshiba recovery image so if you want to use HDD recovery option do not delete it.
To me it sound like that 1.46 is just an environment that works in conjunction with the recovery media disk to return the HDD to its "Factory State"