Can't recover from system restore

[Jwagner162]

Toshiba satellite e205-s1980.So the computer store diagnosed a bad hdd after I/o errors and no boot. so I Purchased a samsung pro 840 ssd and installed it. I can now get the system recovery menu, but get error messages through every option. I have a system image on an external hdd but that doesn't like me either. I think my issue may be that the ssd isn't formatted? But I'm not sure how to resolve that without a working os. Os is win 7 (I think) 64.

Thanks.

 

[drtweak]

if all you have is the SSD in there of course the System Recovery is gonna error out on everything because thats all on the old hard drive. If you hard drive is going bad then you probably can't clone it. If you do have an Image of it then you need to use what ever you make the image with to restore the image.

 

[Jwagner162]

Makes sense.

So I have an old back up cd, an external hdd with a backup, a recovery disk, and a Samsung ssd setup cd. With what I have is it possible to get the computer to a working state. I'm not at all worried about trying to save any data.

 

[drtweak]

If you have a Recovery CD that is the best way to go. Better to start fresh and new than using an old back. Then once you do that you can either 1) copy back your files over from the backup hdd, or 2) use an USB adapter and plug in your old hard drive and copy over stuff. Will have to reinstall all your programs though.

 

[Jwagner162]

Yep, but the problem I'm having is that it won't recover from the recovery cd. I think it's because the ssd isn't formatted. So can I format the ssd without a functioning os? The old hard drive is so bad another computer won't even recognize it. I was hoping there was a way to do this through the bios or comand promt in recovery console.

 

[drtweak]

It should format it automaticlly. Shouldn't have anything to do with that. When you load the CD its a toshiba CD right? What does it say when it wont recover?

 

[Jwagner162]

No disks came with the laptop, so no. It's a burned cd. I was probably prompted either by the laptop or kapersky to make it.
Ill get specific errors when the power comes back on, we're having a small wind storm in seattle now.

 

[Jwagner162]

So I boot from cd, which eventually prompts me to load drivers, but I can't find them on the cd, so I end up at system recovery options menu. Then I run start up repair, runs for 10. Min or so then says system repair cannot repair automatically. If I look at problem details the event name is start up repair offline.

 

[drtweak]

Ah yea if its not a toshiba CD then yea that wont work. The recovery is most likely on the old hard drive. May have to get a hold of Toshiba Tech Support to get a System Recovery CD. What you go most likely won't work. It would have to be a FULL image of the OS and Files not just a Backup of your files.