My kid has a Satellite L305-S5918 computer .She tells me when you turn it on ,it goes to a blue screen and says to insert a driver recovery disc . Her and her fiance have been on Limewire downloading movies/music without scanning them for viruses first. I know I'll need a vista recovery disc, a bart pe disc to find the viruses and to get rid of the virus. I also have a genuine copy of windows 7 to put on it . I know a lot about computers but sometimes need help myself. What is the problem with it when it says" insert recovery driver disc ?

restar and as booting continuoasly hit f11 to do a restroe.
Your f key recovery depends on laptop model and type.
Usually tells you on boot up what key to hit for restore/recovery.

download them at a friends house and put them on a USB memory stick.

you can get all the downloads for this model from here
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&moid=2241926&src=EXPL

In this instance I would be tempted to ignore the driver recovery disc option but would probably tell the bios to boot from CD first and boot it directly to the BART PE disk or even better HIREN cd.

Clean up and if you have it on a network of any description or have an external hard drive then back up data you may want to keep.

You then have two options in that you could do a full system restore as the toshiba does have that facility during boot. (F8) then select the recovery options and that is why i sugest getting data off first.

OR you could use your WIN 7 disk and do a full re-build. In which case you should nip over to the toshibe site and get the drivers and put them on a USB stick as it is very possible that the windows 7 install may require some of them during the build and you would have to insert the USB stick and point it to the drivers (may get a little fiddly but it always works)

win 7 may want the drivers for SATA hard drives is the usual problem so it would maybe depend on which build of windows 7 you have as to neededing the sata drivers.
aother option would be to turn the sata setting in the bios to compatible to try scoot past that stage. but it does carry a small performance penalty

Normally computers today have a recovery partition or a recovery disc. you will need one of these to boot the computer up and recover or repair the computer. most of the time its easier to just pull out the hard drive attach it to a working computer carefully copy the files they want or need and make sure to virus scan them and then just do a fresh install of windows on it with a virus protection program as well.

You will need to insert your windows installation disk during startup and perform a repair when it loads. If you do not have a windows disk then you will need to restore your system from a backup.
Either option you run the risk of losing any data so hopefully you have a backup. If not you may have to take it to a local computer shop and have the data recovered before carrying out any of the above.

That blinking cursor is the way in which the BIOS is telling you that Windows is missing - its most critical, core files have been corrupted beyond repair. The only thing you can do is to reinstall using the recovery cd or your own Windows install disk.

no it is not fried. you just need to find a vista disk and use that instead of the recovery disks. Once you reinstall Vista you should be able to go online for the Toshiba drivers. Make sure you have the windows Vista Key which should be located under the laptop. the vista software install will ask for it.

For the very original state you'll need the Toshiba discs. Insert the one that's labeled as needed to restore your system and boot to it. At one point you'll be promtped to delete the existing partition (this wipes your data) and then you can reinstall Windows on the empty partition. If yo udo not have the Toshiba discs, you can still load Windows using a Windows installation disc, but you will likely need to find the missing drivers for your laptop, so don't go this route unless you are comfortable with it.

hello , friend its very easy to do that, steps are
1. insert bootable cd/dvd VISTA.home premium DVD.
2. Boot from tht cd and start the installation. 3. Format the whole HDD and create new partiotion as there is facility of doing this before installing. 4. Remember format whole disk. and then go for installations .
3. once it i completed install all video, audio e.tc. drivers.
4. if you dont have that drivers pls download it from toshiba site by entering the toshiba serial no