Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite M35-S320 that I want to revert back to the original factory settings.. The installation CD was never there ant the hidden partition is toast (probably due to my peoplesoft installation).. anyway, is there any way I can get back to to a clean slate? I contacted Toshiba and the response I got was "The recovery disk is no longer available for this laptop"... Thanks for any help

On the keyboard should be an fn button usually by the ctrl button.
At the top of the keyboard there should be a button that looks like a sun and has a arrow up or down.
Now combine the fn+the sun button.

Hope this helped.

I think the only way is to remove the internal batt wait 10 seconds and insert it again

Hello,
Please follow the bellow links,

Every laptop or note pad has a hidden partion and you can restore factory setting ,follow the step
widos xp
toshiba press o and start laptop until start estore option

vista=
toshiba f-8

http://www.pcrecoverydisks.com/toshiba/toshiba-system-restore-vista/
for setup bios
CD-Rom support from Bios
Phoenix BIOS setup and help
BIOS - The setup program used in desktop and laptop computers/PCs - Page 1 of 2


http://bertk.mvps.org/html/reinstall.html
Hope this helps

your password is toshiba.. enter that and then you may change it to your desired one..

Hold down the power button for 10 (ten) seconds to switch off your machine.

Please note: Holding down the power button on the machine forces it to switch off. Any unsaved data will be lost.

• 2) Press and hold the 0 (zero) key and at the same time, tap the power button once to switch on your notebook.
• 3) When the machine Starts beeping; release the 0 key.
• 4) When prompted by the warning screen; select Yes to continue with the system recovery.
• 5) Select Recovery of Factory Default Software; click Next.
• 6) Select Recover to out-of-box state. Click Next again.
• 7) Click Next to Start recovery.

At the Toshiba Website http://www.toshiba.com

hi
regarding battery u need new battery
and regarding battery u can buy it from market or u can download it from the following link http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpsp2.html

If the M35-S320 case is OK and the M35-S359 screen is OK and will fit the M35-S320 then I would swap the LCD screen lid and inverter over to the M35-S320 including the hard drive from the M35-S359.
It would be less work and with luck it might boot up, if not you might be able to do a system repair, worst case, you will need to reinstall Windows. Plus you have a spare drive from the M35-S320 which you can use as an external hard drive with an USB hard drive adapter case.

I hope it helps!!!

you can buy the HDD in your laptop at computer shop, but check first if it is SATA or IDE...under your laptop,there are 2 screws remove that and remove the HDD and check what type of HDD you have..here is the idea, with 40pin its indicate IDE with small flat connector its SATA..remove and check and go to computer shop,they will ask you also how many GB you want...80,120,160 whatsover..buy and replace the HDD.