Need Toshiba Satellite A205 recovery disc

I recently got a used laptop (Toshiba Satellite A205-S5841 with Windows Vista) from a friend and I want to have reformatted to out-of-box settings. He was a download junkie, I don't even know what most of these programs are. I tried wiping my registry and almost couldn't start my computer back up and still didn't get rid of half of it. I know how to take care of a computer but I can't fix one when it's broken. So I want to know how to get a recovery disc (preferably free) so I can start over.

 

About $30,

http://recovery-disks.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Toshiba+Satellite+A205-S5841&x=10&y=11

 

Not sure about that particular Model, but most Toshiba's have a seperate partition on your HD for system restore.

 

Hello,
You can order disks here. Models older than 2006 are not supported.

https://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/serviceUnitVerification.jsp?orderType=SFF


If you have a recovery partition on the computer, you can set it back to a factory state using the following method.

On Page 61 of the users manual.

To recover the original factory image using the utilities on your
computer’s internal storage drive:
1 Make sure the computer is turned off.
2 Press and hold the 0 (zero) key on your keyboard while
powering on the computer.
3 A warning screen appears, stating that when the recovery is
executed all data will be deleted and rewritten. Click Yes to
continue.

https://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/bulletinDetail.jsp?soid=2737864&pf=true

Support page:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...5841&selCategory=2756709&selFamily=1073768663

 

Thanks guys but none of it will work, i tried holding 0 at start screen, it did nothing, and i'm broke as heck right now, so i can't buy a recovery disc, i tried looking for the recovery disc creator on my computer, and i don't have one. One of my friends told me that if I install a newer version of windows it will clear it too, that doesn't seem logical to me, is that true :confused

 

You do not hold the 0 key at the start screen. Power down the computer and then while holding down the 0 key, power on the computer and keep holding it down. Is that what you tried?

When you go into Disk Management, do you see a recovery partition?

 

no i'll try that and let you know

 

No, it just takes me to a screen that asks if I want to start up in safe mode or standard mode.

 

When you go into Disk Management, how many partitions do you see and how big are they?

 

I can't find disk management

 

Right click My Computer and select "Manage". From there select "Disk Management". You may have to do this in a admin account.

 

ok there is 2 partitions, one is 1.46 gb and the other is 147.58 gb

 

Does the partition that it 1.48GB have a name?

 

I don't know but this is everything it says: Volume: it's blank, Layout: simple, Type: basic, File System: blank again, Status: healthy (EISA configuration), Capacity: 1.46 gb, Free Space: 1.46 gb, % Free: 100%, Fault Tolerance: no, Overhead: 0% :confused

 

Sorry,
It looks like you no longer have any recovery partition. Only option now will be to buy the restore CD's.

 

alright, thanks for trying bro.