Toshiba TECRA M5 User Manual

User’s Manual

3-15

Getting Started

Restoring the preinstalled software from the 

Recovery HDD

About 2.5GB of hard disk space is reserved for recovery partition.
When re-setting up your hard disk, do not change, delete or add partitions 

in a manner other than specified in the manual. Otherwise, space for 

software may be destroyed.
In addition, if you use a third-party partitioning program to reconfigure 

partitions on your hard disk, it may become impossible to re-setup your 

computer.

1. Turn off your computer.
2. While holding down 0 (zero) key on the keyboard, turn on your 

computer.

3. A Menu appears, follow the on-screen instructions

Restoring the preinstalled software from your 

creating Recovery Media

If preinstalled files are damaged, you can either use the Recovery Media 

you have created or the hard disk drive recovery to restore them. To 

restore the operating system and all preinstalled software, follow the steps 

below.

1. Load the Recovery Media in the optional optical disk drive and turn off 

the computer’s power.

2. Hold down the F12 key and turn on the power. When In Touch with 

Tomorrow TOSHIBA appears, release the F12 key.

3. Use the left or right cursor key to select the CD-ROM icon in the display 

menu. For details, refer to the 

 section in Chapter 7, HW 

Setup.

If your optical disk drive can only write to CDs, select "CD" as the "Type" 

write to either CD or DVDs, select the one you are using as the "Type" on 

When sound mute is turned ON by the Fn + Esc key, turn OFF before 

, for details.

When sound mute is turned ON by the Fn + Esc key, turn OFF before 

, for details.