Can NOT reformat vista!

stu1969

stu1969

stu1969

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Hi all.

I have a Toshiba laptop that I successfully reformatted several months ago using recovery disks I made when I first got my computer. When I did that I created new recovery discs, (I have kept the original disks).

I want to reformat my laptop again but I can’t. I have inserted the recovery disk and restarted but it started normally. I then entered BIOS at start up and asked my computer to boot from CD/DVD, still no luck. I have tried the original disks I have but nothing.

Does anybody know what I should do next?

Thanks guys

Stu
 
What is the actual problem(s) you are experiencing?

Does it boot off the CD etc..?

Any errors?
 
The recovery disks need to be bootable. They need the system files to do this, are they on the CD?. Copying the recovery files to a computer and then adding the system files before recreating the CD will do this. Magic Iso can do this automatically.

andy.
 
Not to be patronising (but it's worth ruling out) are you pressing a key when it prompts you to "press any key to boot from DVD"?

We had a thread a while back with the exact same problem and he just wasn't reading the display properly.
 
nkata said:
The recovery disks need to be bootable. They need the system files to do this, are they on the CD?. Copying the recovery files to a computer and then adding the system files before recreating the CD will do this. Magic Iso can do this automatically.

andy.
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Hello Andy

They are disks made by the Toshiba “recovery disk creator” on my computer. I have tried the ones I made a few months ago and the original ones made when the computer was new. I used the original ones a few months ago without any difficulty.

Whether they are bootable I don’t know, I would assume they are because they were made by the recovery disk creator.
 
theheyes said:
Not to be patronising (but it's worth ruling out) are you pressing a key when it prompts you to "press any key to boot from DVD"?

We had a thread a while back with the exact same problem and he just wasn't reading the display properly.
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Hello,

Patronise all you like, :p There are no prompts!
 
Is there an F key (often F12) to press at boot up to determine the boot device. Often the case with laptops, whatever is set in bios.

Press F12 at post, a menu system should appear, press c or whatever for CD/DVD, press any key to boot from CD drive if requested

cheers, andy.
 
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