Repair<\/font><\/h2>\nFor the Toshiba Satellite L640 series, here\u2019s how to REPAIR your system if you need to:<\/p>\n
1. WARNING \u2013 back up ANY data<\/strong> you don\u2019t want to lose to an external drive or disc or usb device (there\u2019s really no point in backing up to your existing drive!) <\/p>\n2. turn off<\/strong> the laptop<\/p>\n3. hold down the F8<\/strong> key and, while holding<\/u>, turn on<\/strong> the laptop<\/p>\n4. the Advanced Boot Options<\/strong> will display \u2013 choose Repair Your Computer <\/em>by using the arrows and hit \u2018enter\u2019<\/p>\n5. follow the instructions<\/p>\n
Restore<\/font><\/h2>\nCRITICAL \u2013 the recovery utility is stored on a hidden partition on your drive. If you make a mistake you may lose it! So, ALWAYS create a recovery DVD or USB drive. That way, if the system restore fails you can fall back to the DVD or USB version. Go to \u2018All Programs\u2019 and choose Recovery Media Creator \u2013 follow the steps.<\/p>\n
If you need to do a full system restore <\/strong><\/font>then you have two options:<\/p>\nA<\/strong> – using the partition recovery method<\/strong> then :<\/p>\n1. Turn sound ON <\/p>\n
2. Turn off computer<\/p>\n
3. Hold down \u201c0\u201d (zero) key and while holding, turn the computer ON<\/p>\n
4. A menu will pop up – follow the instructions<\/p>\n
OR\u2026<\/p>\n
B<\/strong> \u2013 using the Recovery DVD\/USB<\/strong> that you created (you did that, right?)<\/p>\n1. Turn sound ON<\/p>\n
2. Plug in the USB or DVD Recovery media and turn off the computer<\/p>\n
3. Hold down the F12 key and while holding it, turn the computer ON<\/p>\n
4. When the Toshiba Leading Innovation <\/em>screen comes on, release the F12 key<\/p>\n5. Scroll through the options and choose the one that relates to your recovery media<\/p>\n
6. Follow the onscreen instructions<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Hottest Tips:<\/h3>\n\n- print out your User Guide (at least the bits you\u2019re likely to need) and read it<\/em>! <\/li>\n
- Grab the official User Guide for the Toshiba Satellite L640 Series here<\/a> or right click the pic >>>><\/li>\n
- create a recovery DVD in case anything goes wrong in future and keep it somewhere safe<\/em> (that you can find later!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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2. turn off<\/strong> the laptop<\/p>\n 3. hold down the F8<\/strong> key and, while holding<\/u>, turn on<\/strong> the laptop<\/p>\n 4. the Advanced Boot Options<\/strong> will display \u2013 choose Repair Your Computer <\/em>by using the arrows and hit \u2018enter\u2019<\/p>\n 5. follow the instructions<\/p>\n CRITICAL \u2013 the recovery utility is stored on a hidden partition on your drive. If you make a mistake you may lose it! So, ALWAYS create a recovery DVD or USB drive. That way, if the system restore fails you can fall back to the DVD or USB version. Go to \u2018All Programs\u2019 and choose Recovery Media Creator \u2013 follow the steps.<\/p>\n If you need to do a full system restore <\/strong><\/font>then you have two options:<\/p>\n A<\/strong> – using the partition recovery method<\/strong> then :<\/p>\n 1. Turn sound ON <\/p>\n 2. Turn off computer<\/p>\n 3. Hold down \u201c0\u201d (zero) key and while holding, turn the computer ON<\/p>\n 4. A menu will pop up – follow the instructions<\/p>\n OR\u2026<\/p>\n B<\/strong> \u2013 using the Recovery DVD\/USB<\/strong> that you created (you did that, right?)<\/p>\n 1. Turn sound ON<\/p>\n 2. Plug in the USB or DVD Recovery media and turn off the computer<\/p>\n 3. Hold down the F12 key and while holding it, turn the computer ON<\/p>\n 4. When the Toshiba Leading Innovation <\/em>screen comes on, release the F12 key<\/p>\n 5. Scroll through the options and choose the one that relates to your recovery media<\/p>\n 6. Follow the onscreen instructions<\/p>\n Does anyone else think it\u2019s silly that computer manufacturers have stripped down what they provide you when you buy these days. What\u2019s really weird is that the User Guide is usually provided in soft copy on your machine. That means you need to start your machine to learn how to start your machine! In any… Read More »Fix Toshiba L640 – Restore to Factory Settings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-toshiba-l640"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-5v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Restore<\/font><\/h2>\n
<\/a>Hottest Tips:<\/h3>\n\n