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Actually if you formated all partitions including system reserved , you can throw ur toshiba laptop away and buy new one,there

Ramune Lu

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toshiba probably only 1 company which making mad,well i mean after formating all partitions there no any way to instal windows again
 
You should be able to get a recovery DVD or USB stick from Toshiba, though you may need to pay for them.

Or buy a fresh copy of windows.

Or install a free OS.

Every other major manufacturer is the same.
 
i have fresh and clean win 7 cd, and that not allow me start setup, that say ''operating system not found, please press ctrl,alt,del to restart pc'' or other message that something not found or covered by iso standart patents.i formated everything,fully all partitions.i tried request on toshiba but there i got answer after i entered serial number that there they got nothing for me or my laptop to old :))) its a satellite c660. i got sony other lapton even i formated everything i still can install everything i want, why Toshiba so creepy?haha yes free os installed open suse working well, but i want instal win, and i got clean original version of win 7, before there were vista win
 
You need to enter BIOS settings on your laptop, and change boot options so that DVD is first in the list.
And check your "cleen original version of Win 7" that it is really bootable DVD, not ISO file.