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During the internal storage drive recovery process it is strongly 
recommended that your computer be connected to an external 
power source via the AC adaptor.

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The Toshiba Recovery Wizard also provides the option of erasing 
your internal storage drive, without restoring the information on 
the drive. See 

 for 

more information.

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When you restore your system, only the operating system files, 
applications, and drivers originally shipped with the computer 
are restored. Any files that you created are not restored during 
this process. Be sure to separately save the files you have 
created to external media using Windows

®

 Backup or another 

backup program. For more information, see 

Recovering an internal storage drive to its out-of-box state deletes all 
partitions on the drive and all information stored in those partitions. 
Be sure to save your work to external media before executing the 
recovery. For more information, see 

During the recovery process it is strongly recommended that your 
computer be connected to an external power source via the AC 
adaptor.

You can recover the original factory image (returning the computer 
to its out-of-box state) using the utilities stored on your computer’s 
internal storage drive or using recovery media, if you have created 
such media. To recover using the first method, follow the procedure 
below. To recover using the second method, see 

To recover the original factory image using the utilities on your 
computer’s internal storage drive:

Make sure the computer is turned off.

While powering on your computer, press the 

F12

 key when the 

initial TOSHIBA screen displays.

The Boot menu appears.