Windows Vista & Windows XP

[SoVA]

Hi, everyone.

I've got used Toshiba Satellite M305D-S4828 brought from U.S. without Vista distr.
Can anybody post an image of original disc at some file sharing? Serial No. needed also - the license sticker has gone 

Very much thanx to helpers!

[Jerry_Lippey]

Satellite M305D-S4828

First off if the hard drive is still intact, you may have the recovery image on it. See the section Hard Drive Recovery Utilities, which begins on p. 61 of the User's Guide.

   Satellite M300 Series User’s Guide

Whether you have the recovery partition or not is easy to ascertain from within Windows.

   1.46GB partition and other small partition are for the System Recovery Options and the factory softw...  

In any case, you're not going to get the recovery discs from a download. If you are in one of the countries mentioned in the following message, you can order them from Toshiba.

   Recovery media

Otherwise, it's best to have an acquaintance in the US order them and ship them to you.

If Windows boots, there is no need for the label. All the information is here.

   Start > All Programs > Toshiba > Utilities > PC Diagnostic Tool

[SoVA]

Thanx for tips, I'll try.

Unfortunately, previous laptop's owner reinstalled system to Seven. The lap is not at mine yet (it'll be here just after some hours), and I can't watch for recover partition on it. There are many chances for recovery part. was deleted.

If there would be still Vista on lap, it'd be not too hard to see the key in the registry

P.S. Xcuse me for my english

[Jerry_Lippey]

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previous laptop's owner reinstalled system to Seven

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Then you would need to order the recovery discs from Toshiba in order to restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents, which has Windows Vista.

Or you could install the drivers and utilities for Windows 7 from here. You might get most of them using this utility.

   Toshiba Software Installer for Windows 7