How To Restore Factory Setting For Satellite Pro U400-23x

Toshibas use a couple of methods to do a factory recovery. If your pc came with a recovery disk you can use that, ensuring the boot sequence is from the cd drive, more modern toshibas use a recovery partition.
1. Copy all your files and documents to an external storage device.
2. Shut down the computer.
3. Turn the PC back on and hit the F8 key repeatedly until the Advanced Boot Option Screen appears.
4. Click "Repair Your Computer" if you are not already on it and then press ENTER
5. choose your country and click OK
6. On the "System Recovery Options Screen" click "Restore Application" which is the last option.
7. Follow the on-screen instructions
8. When prompted, click on "Full Factory Recovery"
9. "Next"
10. Click "Yes"
11. you will notice for a while it seems like nothing is happening, give it some time.
12. After some minutes, recovery will complete and you click "Finish"

Or switch off the laptop by holding down the power button for 20s' then press and hold the "0" (Zero) key then tap the power button again to switch on. Keep holding down the zero key until you hear a beep the recovery process should start.

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