Would Partitioning Hdd Affects Toshiba Recovery Media Feature

Hi Guys
I Partitioned My New Satellite 500gb Hdd Using Some Toshiba Disk Management Programs Found In The Start Menu - My Toshiba - ........
Later On I Found Myself Unable To Use The Toshiba " Recovery Media Creator " Which Is A Toshiba Utility . With A Message " ! No Hdd Recovery Area , The Toshiba Recovery Media Creator Can Not Be Launched "
Knowing That :
1) I Used That Utility Some Time Earlier !!
2) I Partitioned My Hdd Into 5 X 100gb Partitions !!
What Did I Do Wrong ?
How To Recover From That Situation ?
Thanks Guys
Mobarak

 

The hard disk originally had three partitions, one of which was a recovery partition. You deleted or moved it.

The time to make a recovery disk is before you do anything to the disks. However, Toshiba will sell you recovery disks: https://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/serviceUnitVerification.jsp?orderType=SFF

 

Many Thanks Chuckles
I Ordered A Recovery Disc From Toshiba . But Then It Will Return Me To The Main Partition Of 500gb Then " what Is The Right Way To Partition The Hdd Without Deleting The Recovery Area ?
Many Thanks

 

The only safe way to partition is to not touch the two non-drive lettered partitions, and not change the status of those partitions in the Master Boot Record. I've never used the utility you describe, but I would guess it also moved the two hidden partitions to create your desired partitions. At that point the BIOS routine could no longer find the recovery partition.

Never take a step forward that you can't reverse. You should have taken an image of the hard drive before making changes - and yes, the first thing I did with my notebook was create those recovery DVDs.

I have attached a picture of the factory layout of my Toshiba's internal 320GB hard drive. You will note that the C: partition is NOT 320GB. (I blocked out the other drives currently attached to my system)