Help!! deleted recovery files

tlise

Donnie wrote: »

All it said where? Please take another look. If that's too difficult for you, you can send me the serial number via PM. If that still bowls you over, try Model: PS***

All it said on the toshiba specs in the Toshiba tempo alert box along with his serial number, but I will have another look.

tlise

gaming_guy wrote: »

If you were referring to my post about virtualization here, then I'm afraid you are out of luck as you are not running the OS (Windows) within a virtual machine.

Nope wasn't there....I googled my problem hence all the stupid programmes promising results to prey on panicking people.

tlise

This would be my Malteser moment (Brown hair blonde inside lol) Model number that in everything else I would think to check on the product not in.....makes a difference that does. PSLC8E04U02EEN. Is that what you wanted?

kwikbreaks

Did you read what hammyman posted because that will almost certainly recover your disk unless you have been foolish enough to write data to it since you formatted it. If you did write data to it then you've likely lost the original content.

Hammyman wrote: »

You need Testdisk.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

P.S. This solution applies to any type of PC and the serial number is irrelevant to it

Donnie

tlise wrote: »

This would be my Malteser moment (Brown hair blonde inside lol) Model number that in everything else I would think to check on the product not in.....makes a difference that does. PSLC8E04U02EEN. Is that what you wanted?

Toshiba Satellite L300D-21X. I don't have the Vista Recovery discs for that particular L300D model. Have only L300D-202 Vista recovery discs.

You can use Imaging software to make a complete back up or see if anyone who has the same model as you do will make a copy of the discs for you.

Even wiithout them, you will always have the option of making clean installs, but you will lose some of your utilities, such as;

Toshiba Disc Creator
Ulead® DVD MovieFactory® for TOSHIBA
McAfee® Internet Security Suite - Toshiba Edition (includes free Internet updates for 30 days)
Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator
Microsoft® Works, Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 (free 60-day trial)
Google Software (Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Google Desktop, Picasa)
Connectivity Doctor
ConfigFree™


There is also the possibility to upgrade to Windows 7.

Donnie

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Did you read what hammyman posted because that will almost certainly recover your disk unless you have been foolish enough to write data to it since you formatted it. If you did write data to it then you've likely lost the original content.



P.S. This solution applies to any type of PC and the serial number is irrelevant to it

Having the Recovery Discs is more convenient. Which is why you are prompted to do so by Toshiba once you have completed the initial setup. L300D describes various models in the range, so you need to identify the particular model.

The OP can attempt to create them now using the Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator, but it possibly won't work if she has deleted the link to the location of the restore partition.
If he has already created them...there is no need for us to be concerned about the Recovery partition.

tlise

Donnie wrote: »

Having the Recovery Discs is more convenient. Which is why you are prompted to do so by Toshiba once you have completed the initial setup. L300D describes various models in the range, so you need to identify the particular model.

The OP can attempt to create them now using the Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator, but it possibly won't work if she has deleted the link to the location of the restore partition.
If he has already created them...there is no need for us to be concerned about the Recovery partition.

No I couldnt use the recovery disc creator as there are no files left.
I have the partition still, it still says drive e, but its now empty and I haven't rewritten anything over it.

tlise

Donnie wrote: »

Toshiba Satellite L300D-21X. I don't have the Vista Recovery discs for that particular L300D model. Have only L300D-202 Vista recovery discs.

You can use Imaging software to make a complete back up or see if anyone who has the same model as you do will make a copy of the discs for you.

Even wiithout them, you will always have the option of making clean installs, but you will lose some of your utilities, such as;

Toshiba Disc Creator
Ulead® DVD MovieFactory® for TOSHIBA
McAfee® Internet Security Suite - Toshiba Edition (includes free Internet updates for 30 days)
Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator
Microsoft® Works, Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 (free 60-day trial)
Google Software (Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Google Desktop, Picasa)
Connectivity Doctor
ConfigFree™


There is also the possibility to upgrade to Windows 7.

Hmmm thats an option I hadn't considered, but I would assume that costs a lot as well. I am hoping that his laptop keeps happily working and I won't ever need to but its an option.
I don't think any of those programmes are in use, and google I could just redownload couldn't I?

The imaging route seems a good way to go. If I did that could I just put it all onto DVD/CD to keep all files safer then boot up from that if I needed to? and if so where would I go for that?

I saw the link before (test disk) and it looked good, but, having made a bad situation worse, its not my laptop, I don't want to make things even worse by jumping in and following what it says then find out I have been doing the wrong thing, as I haven't ever done anything like that before. Anything I do know, has been through fiddling, but I haven't been down that deep so to speak, so in this case I am a total novice. Well with the exception I do know what a mouse and keyboard is

Donnie

tlise wrote: »

No I couldnt use the recovery disc creator as there are no files left.
I have the partition still, it still says drive e, but its now empty and I haven't rewritten anything over it.

You' are actually prompted to do it every time you open the laptop, until you disable the prompt, because the discs will always be more important. Especially in the case of hard drive failure.

Donnie

tlise wrote: »

Hmmm thats an option I hadn't considered, but I would assume that costs a lot as well. I am hoping that his laptop keeps happily working and I won't ever need to but its an option.
I don't think any of those programmes are in use, and google I could just redownload couldn't I?

The imaging route seems a good way to go. If I did that could I just put it all onto DVD/CD to keep all files safer then boot up from that if I needed to? and if so where would I go for that?

I saw the link before (test disk) and it looked good, but, having made a bad situation worse, its not my laptop, I don't want to make things even worse by jumping in and following what it says then find out I have been doing the wrong thing, as I haven't ever done anything like that before. Anything I do know, has been through fiddling, but I haven't been down that deep so to speak, so in this case I am a total novice. Well with the exception I do know what a mouse and keyboard is

Not all are available for downlaod.

Imaging? Maybe Acronis® True Image.

No harm in running the Test Disk program on the problem partition, as I'm sure you will have to confirm any actions before changes are made. If in doubt, ask.

See your PMs for more details.