Recovery Partition

  • Thread starter Thread starter Altiar
  • Start date Start date
A

Altiar

A friend of mine formatted my laptop (Toshiba Satellite-windows vista
premium) and he deleted my 1.5GB recovery partition....
is there any way to retrieve this partition???
 
Altiar said:
A friend of mine formatted my laptop (Toshiba Satellite-windows vista
premium) and he deleted my 1.5GB recovery partition....
is there any way to retrieve this partition???
Click to expand...

Not without handing your computer over to professional recovery people
and spending a fortune (literally).

You will have to see if you can get recovery media from Toshiba. Mine
came with such.
 
Altiar said:
A friend of mine formatted my laptop (Toshiba Satellite-windows vista
premium) and he deleted my 1.5GB recovery partition....
is there any way to retrieve this partition???
Click to expand...


Try this.. you have to buy it as the demo version only shows that it can be
done..

http://www.partition-recovery.com/



--
Mike Hall - MVP
How to construct a good post..
http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm
How to use the Microsoft Product Support Newsgroups..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=newswhelp&style=toc
Mike's Window - My Blog..
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx
 
A friend of mine formatted my laptop (Toshiba Satellite-windows vista
premium) and he deleted my 1.5GB recovery partition....
is there any way to retrieve this partition???
Click to expand...
If you have recovery CD's from Toshiba then you really haven't lost
anything. If you don't have the CD's call Toshiba and have them send you a
set.
 
Generally when someone deletes a partition and format the drive...depending
on how they do it the partition data is either still there or it's been
overwritten. There's no real way of telling unless you knew on what sectors
the original partition existed on and could recreate a new table..but you
run the risk of if it sat at the beginning of the drive, the repartitioning
has already overwritten it.

If you burned the CD's, you're fine. Honestly...I don't see where a
tech-savvy person needs it. The recovery just restores your system to
factory-new like conditions....If you know how to install windows and can
obtain all the drivers you need (which i've yet to find a laptop manf that
didn't have drivers for download) then, there's really no reason to use
recovery..you're getting a better install of windows doing something fresh
rather than dealing with the OEM installed stuff....
 
yea i guess your 100% right...thx!

Jay Moore said:
Generally when someone deletes a partition and format the drive...depending
on how they do it the partition data is either still there or it's been
overwritten. There's no real way of telling unless you knew on what sectors
the original partition existed on and could recreate a new table..but you
run the risk of if it sat at the beginning of the drive, the repartitioning
has already overwritten it.

If you burned the CD's, you're fine. Honestly...I don't see where a
tech-savvy person needs it. The recovery just restores your system to
factory-new like conditions....If you know how to install windows and can
obtain all the drivers you need (which i've yet to find a laptop manf that
didn't have drivers for download) then, there's really no reason to use
recovery..you're getting a better install of windows doing something fresh
rather than dealing with the OEM installed stuff....
Click to expand...
 
Back
Top