Hi Guys

 

Long time no see hahahaha

 

I have been lurking around ;)

 

I am hoping for some IT help? my son decided to format his laptop as it was running very slow so put the recovery disk in and booted it up, it goes through the motions and fomats the drives but gets to 16% and then errors out for wont go any further??

 

Is it knackered or can something be done as its driving me crackers!?

 

It runs Win 7 and is a Toshiba

 

Beer for anyone than can help fix it for me.

 

Cheers

Mike

the recovery disk is for when you have trouble getting into the OS, or when you need to repair the OS, the fact the hard drive is now wiped, means there is no OS, you need the install disk, but as its a laptop it will be OEM Windows 7 install disk you need from Toshiba, you would be better off seeing if there are any windows 7 install disks on ebay for cheap.

The wierd thing is i have reset this laptop dozens of times as my son is always putting crap on it but for some reason it wont work this time!? the disc i am using is the original toshiba boot disc with win 7 on by the way so it should work but it wont? stupid thing is going out the window soon!!

The wierd thing is i have reset this laptop dozens of times as my son is always putting crap on it but for some reason it wont work this time!? the disc i am using is the original toshiba boot disc with win 7 on by the way so it should work but it wont? stupid thing is going out the window soon!!

 

Other option is, see if there is a USB version of it on the Toshiba website if the disk cant be read, you can do installs from windows vista and 7 using USB pen drive.

I know its not helping problem you got now ... But when you have clean install of Windows, create another user account for your son and try this - http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8739/restrict-users-to-run-only-specified-programs-in-windows-7/

It will put his account into limitation - he wont be able to install any crap again and that will save you some nerves :)

Also - try and clean that CD/DVD with soft material .. CD/DVD drives can be very sensitive sometimes .. just like me around my Zed ..

Ill give you the best advice

forget about windows.

 

go to ubuntu.com and check it out. the laptop will run better than before.

Ill give you the best advice

forget about windows.

 

go to ubuntu.com and check it out. the laptop will run better than before.

 

 

Love that hehe...

 

 

Mike, if your struggling bring it over if you want. More than likely a duff DVD that the image is stored on, what version of win 7 is it? I'm sure we can soon find a disk to reinstall and use the code from the bottom of it and get it sorted if thats what you want?