Question Purchase Recovery Media

[Pablo111]

Hi,

I'm looking at a Toshiba Portege Z20t. It's been upgraded to Win10 and whoever did it wiped the recovery drive in the process.

It's not behaving exactly as it should, so I'd like to do a clean reinstall to Win 8 with the Toshiba recovery media and then start the Win 10 upgrade again.

I have searched everywhere for somewhere I could download the recovery media. The Toshiba support page link to buy recovery media is broken.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

 

[COLGeek]

The better process would be to perform a full clean install of Windows 10. Not an upgrade from any version of Windows 8.

 

[Pablo111]

The better process would be to perform a full clean install of Windows 10. Not an upgrade from any version of Windows 8.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm completely open to how it gets done. I'm a bit of a novice. The problem (I think) is a lot of the Toshiba system features aren't getting installed when the system is restored directly from Microsoft with Win 10.

My hope was the Toshiba recovery media might fix this.

 

[COLGeek]

You really don't need the Toshiba apps. Any that you do, you could likely download and install as needed (individually).

See our sibling site for a guide to install Win 10:

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