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Toshiba laptop won't recover

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Old 11-23-2009
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Toshiba laptop won't recover

I'm trying to do a recover to "out-of-box state" on a Toshiba laptop, but it gets an error at about 9-10% every time. Any ideas? I already erased the whole hard drive with the disc because that was all I could do. I was wondering if I could reset the mobo (taking the battery out), but wanted to try here before I took it apart.
Got it, I just installed an old windows '98 version and it must have restored the file it needed and the recover disc went smooth.

Last edited by ericcothran; 11-25-2009 at 09:02 PM..
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Old 11-24-2009
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How old is the Toshiba? Does it have a hidden partition. Tell us more?
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