New laptop HDD

[STRONGBADF1]

My wife's Toshiba laptop locked up and gave her a message stating that the hard drive is bad. (leave it alone Alex) So she decided to restore it to it's original state just to see what would happen before we go buy a new HDD. We have made a system repair disk and a system image on 5 discs. The Toshiba tech said we would only need the restore disk. Well the hard drive error happened again so we bought a new one and for the life of us we can't get it to load the either disk(s)

I need help...Is their a online tutorial that any of you computer savvy AHer's now about that I can read. My searches haven't been successful and Toshiba wants you buy system disks that they made for $40. If I have to buy the disks I will but I'd hate to if I'm just being stupid.

Thanks in advance,
Doug

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

This should work (Sneha's and Vikas (both Microsoft employees) answers)
Restoring system image to a different harddrive?

 

[majorloser]

First you need one of these:

Then one of these:

Apply liberally

Problem solved

 

[Alex2507]

Way back when I bought my eMachines they supplied me with bad blank discs to make reformatting discs with. I got eMachines on the horn and said that since they were responsible for me wasting my time with their bad discs they ought to just send me their pre-made reformatting discs that they had for sale. They did and I've had to use them twice so far to bring my desk top back from the brink.

My hard drive takes a licking but it keeps on ticking ...

The second time I needed to reformat my computer wouldn't do anything with disc 1 until I restarted the computer with the disc already in it. I guess you could try that with the ones you burned yourself. Good luck.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

just in case link above don't work:

Solution a)
You can use the system image created using Windows 7 backup to restore to a different hard drive. These are the steps:
1. Boot into the repair disc / Windows installation disc
2. Select "Reimage your computer"
3. Connect the disk which contains the backups.
4. Choose the recommended system image or choose a different one if you wish.
5. On the next page select the time period of the image you want to restore to. Click Next.
6. Now choose "Format and repartition disks".
Go ahead and complete the wizard.

If this fails solution b)
Hi,
It seems that when you attached/removed the disks then the disk ordering got changed.
There are two basic requirements for Windows Recovery to work:
1) Boot hard disk: This is where System (Active) partition sits. It should be the first disk.
Please verify that the correct hard disk is identified as Boot Disk:
Open Cmd prompt: Diskpart.exe, Select Disk = System.
This will show the Disk where OS will be restored.

2) Hard disk size:
Make sure that the boot disk size is equal or greater than the backup time disk size.

3) If you find that a different hard disk is selected as Boot disk then check the hardware IDE/SATA port connector. Make sure that the correct disk is attached to the first IDE/SATA port. Check the BIOS menu also.

4)If you are shifting your OS to a different disk, then remove the old hard disk before recovery. If both the new and old hard disks are attached, then restore will not proceed. You may attach the old disk back after recovery is done.
5) The reason: If two disks have same Disk Ids then it create issues during recovery. The new target boot disk is assigned the same Disk ID as it was during backup of the old boot disk. During recovery, if you keep the Old disk attached then there will be a conflict of same IDs given to two different disks that would result into failure.

 

[j_garcia]

I bought one of those USB adapter things. You plug the HDD into it (has power and a communication plug to fit any type of drive) and if it fires up, you can retrieve data off it since it does not need to boot, so doesn't matter if the OS is no good. If not, then it is truly dead and may or may not reformat. You can also format it this way. I have recovered data from two HDDs this way and was able to pull an Acronis image off my dad's laptop and restore it to a new drive when his had an issue also. It more than paid for itself with the first data recovery.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

freaking thing!

"The system image restore failed.

No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found."


and also...

System restore wizard asks for a recovery disk and I put it in and it tells me to "Please set 1st recovery media, and press [Next>] to continue." so I put the disk in and it reads the disk and then ejects it and then repeats the same message.

My guess is that the disks me made are junk. (damn Toshiba software)

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

freaking thing!

"The system image restore failed.

No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found."


and also...

System restore wizard asks for a recovery disk and I put it in and it tells me to "Please set 1st recovery media, and press [Next>] to continue." so I put the disk in and it reads the disk and then ejects it and then repeats the same message.

My guess is that the disks me made are junk. (damn Toshiba software)

Toshiba software?? I tought you were using Windows Backup to make image....
If it was a Toshiba image backup, Windows Repair disk would not support it
I don't really know how to help with Toshiba restore

 

[majorloser]

freaking thing!

"The system image restore failed.

No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found."


and also...

System restore wizard asks for a recovery disk and I put it in and it tells me to "Please set 1st recovery media, and press [Next>] to continue." so I put the disk in and it reads the disk and then ejects it and then repeats the same message.

My guess is that the disks me made are junk. (damn Toshiba software)

Please refer to post #3
It may take a couple tries with this method to be effective.

 

[Adam]

Please refer to post #3
It may take a couple tries with this method to be effective.

Yeah, and make a video acting like your son posted s**t about you on FB before you trash it.

 

[sawzalot]

try bleeping computer dot com, they saved me big time.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Toshiba software?? I tought you were using Windows Backup to make image....
If it was a Toshiba image backup, Windows Repair disk would not support it
I don't really know how to help with Toshiba restore

I gotta look and see exactly what program she used to get the "image".

I'll be back...tomorrow. I need a Jack&Coke and I owe my brother a phone call.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

The image was made with Windows...I guess I'm ordering the disks. (we'll see if I pay or not.)

 

[majorloser]

The image was made with Windows...I guess I'm ordering the disks. (we'll see if I pay or not.)

"Microsoft is our friend...."

 

[STRONGBADF1]

I remade the restore disks and it worked. I don't know what program my wife used and neither does she. She's still sick and her mind just isn't sharp right now. She is normally very sharp. She went back to school and finished her degree and scored a 3.98GPA. Her work paid for it as long as she scored an 80% or higher and she would get pissed if she scored a 97%. As you can tell I'm proud of her.

The only thing I don't get is that it used 3 of the 4 disks. Why wouldn't it use the last disk? It has a "BOOT" folder a "SOURCES" folder then a file titled "BOOTMGR" and then "WinREPartition" typed as "configuration settings".

 

[Alex2507]

I don't know what program my wife used and neither does she. She's still sick and her mind just isn't sharp right now. She is normally very sharp. She went back to school and finished her degree and scored a 3.98GPA.

All I can think is that your hard drive must be really something when it's working.