Toshiba protege z930 Manuel D’Utilisation

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A recovery image of your computer is stored on the internal storage 
drive, and the image can be restored by running the recovery 
utilities directly from your internal storage drive as described in the 
sections below. However, it is strongly recommended that you 
create recovery media. If the recovery files on your internal storage 
drive become corrupted or are deleted, you can restore your system 
from your recovery media. Also, if your original internal storage 
drive fails, you can restore your system to a new internal storage 
drive from your recovery media. It is strongly recommended that 
you create recovery media before using your system for the first 
time. See 

 and 

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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

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 Backup or another 

backup program. For more information, see 

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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