Toshiba Laptop

Right,

i just got me a toshiba laptop second hand. i want to reinstall windows, as there's lots of crap on it, but i don't have a disk. is there a way to do this wihout the disk and put the laptop back to factory settings, or do i have to use a new windows disk?

i've tried the toshiba website, but unfortunately couldnt find anything...

any help is appreciated...

Originally posted by Raoul
Right,

i just got me a toshiba laptop second hand. i want to reinstall windows, as there's lots of crap on it, but i don't have a disk. is there a way to do this wihout the disk and put the laptop back to factory settings, or do i have to use a new windows disk?

i've tried the toshiba website, but unfortunately couldnt find anything...

any help is appreciated...

Without a specific disk you won't be able to reset it to factory setting usually. You might find one on a filesharing program (not sure about legality of that), or maybe even on their site (though kinda unlikely). Either way, a standard Windows should do just fine, and you can get the drivers (and sometimes even additional programs) on the toshiba website, for sure. So it might be a bit of work should work fine though. (maybe you should download the necessary drivers first and put them on a USB stick for example, might safe you some Internet troubles).

Hope that helped.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Without a specific disk you won't be able to reset it to factory setting usually. You might find one on a filesharing program (not sure about legality of that), or maybe even on their site (though kinda unlikely). Either way, a standard Windows should do just fine, and you can get the drivers (and sometimes even additional programs) on the toshiba website, for sure. So it might be a bit of work should work fine though. (maybe you should download the necessary drivers first and put them on a USB stick for example, might safe you some Internet troubles).

Hope that helped.

thanks man, and yeah, that's what i was thinking of doing...

Use PC Decrapifier.

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

Toshiba huh...oh the fun you will have....

Originally posted by occultdestroyer
Use PC Decrapifier.

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

thanks.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Toshiba huh...oh the fun you will have....

🤨

My current laptop is a Toshiba I bought a year ago new. I've had to replace the motherboard twice and the hard drive is next on my list because sometimes it makes very bad noises. Despite their rep, Toshiba is infamous for the amount of consumer lawsuits they get for purposely selling inferior or defective products on the US market. Every time I had my motherboard replaced, the official Toshiba service repair had to go through 10 motherboards Toshiba sent to them before they found one that wasn't broken out of box and kept offering to just sell me a new, more upgraded laptop at a very small discount after reassuring me that my hard drive would probably die within the next 8-16 months. Oh, and memory backup/recovery is an extra charge of +$100 with no guarantees. They literally shell out billions of dollars to settle lawsuits outside of Japan every year.

Have fun.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
My current laptop is a Toshiba I bought a year ago new. I've had to replace the motherboard twice and the hard drive is next on my list because sometimes it makes very bad noises. Despite their rep, Toshiba is infamous for the amount of consumer lawsuits they get for purposely selling inferior or defective products on the US market. Every time I had my motherboard replaced, the official Toshiba service repair had to go through 10 motherboards Toshiba sent to them before they found one that wasn't broken out of box and kept offering to just sell me a new, more upgraded laptop at a very small discount after reassuring me that my hard drive would probably die within the next 8-16 months. Oh, and memory backup/recovery is an extra charge of +$100 with no guarantees. They literally shell out billions of dollars to settle lawsuits outside of Japan every year.

Have fun.

ouch.

well, i've had mine since... january, and i bought it second hand from someone who'd had it for around a year.

very few problems so far, if any. the only thing is that when i got it, it had 4gb of ram running on a 64 bit system. i couldn't clean the harddrive properly, so i sent off for recovery disks. the ones i got were 32 bit. apparently the guy had upgraded it, which sucks, because apparently you need a 64 bit system to run 4gb of ram. so i'm now faced with the choice of buying a 64 bit vista, or waiting for windows 7...

Dude you coulda had a Dell.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Dude you coulda had a Dell.

over here, dell is overpriced, and full of problems, from what i've heard...

Originally posted by Raoul
over here, dell is overpriced, and full of problems, from what i've heard...

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
I paid 350 USD three years ago for my Dell Inspiron, not one problem, except for having to replace a bulb behind the screen after I dropped it.

that's cool.

they're still overpriced on this side of the atlantic, though. 😛

How much do they run for, USD?

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
How much do they run for, USD?

in USD, i'd say a low spec pc is around 450-500, a decent spec would be around 1400-1500.

i can go to pc world and get a pc with an identical spec for around two or three hundred euros less than the same pc would be from dell.

Originally posted by Raoul
in USD, i'd say a low spec pc is around 450-500, a decent spec would be around 1400-1500.

i can go to pc world and get a pc with an identical spec for around two or three hundred euros less than the same pc would be from dell.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Damn dude. Cant you order directly from Dell, online?

yes, but again, they still charge over the top... friend of mine told me dell is much cheaper in the states, which is a shame, cos every time i look at an xps, i want one...

Originally posted by Raoul
yes, but again, they still charge over the top... friend of mine told me dell is much cheaper in the states, which is a shame, cos every time i look at an xps, i want one...

i wish...

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Weird, I would have thought the website would offer the same prices worldwide.

Different exchange rates and taxes and so on make that very much impossible.

Plus there is the fact that Toshiba may be charging more because Ireland isn't one of it's designated dumps for defective products like the US, Canada, and several EU countries.