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    [Qosmio X305-Q701][HD/Windows Vista Home Premium problem]

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by SaMo0204, Nov 13, 2010.

  1. SaMo0204

    SaMo0204 Newbie

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    Greetings!
    First, sorry for my bad engrish.
    After owning my X305 for 2 years my HD die. That's what I think... but after running a few test, dicovered that the MBR died.
    So pushing 0 like crazy don't do the trick and I can't access to the recovery partition.
    And I don't have the recovery disc neither... My (lack) of fully understand the english when I was reading the manual got me, and forgot to create one.
    Can anyone help me to solve this problem?
    Thanks in advance, and Blessings.

    SaMo0204
     
    SaMo0204, Nov 13, 2010
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  2. Priest-King

    Priest-King Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds like your hard drive may have died, get a new one and contact Toshiba, they will sell you recovery discs for about 25 bucks.
     
    Priest-King, Dec 18, 2010
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  3. SaMo0204

    SaMo0204 Newbie

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    Hd it's still alive, brough a new hd, install new os and use an usb carry disk to link my old hd to save the files.
    And second... toshiba charge me 100 bucks for the recovery disk, cos I live in south america and my notebook was purchased in the US.
    Thanks anyway and Blessings.
     
    SaMo0204, Jan 23, 2011
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  4. JosePerez

    JosePerez Notebook Evangelist

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    Well im not 100% sure (let's say 95% xD) but if you install a linux system, the grub loader (the linux program for loading o.s installs) will fix your corrupted mbr and you'll be able to boot into windows...
     
    JosePerez, Jan 27, 2011
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