Sda4, sda5, sda8 and sda9 are the Linux partitions that are to be replaced by Windows again but once we'd remove this, we'd be left with TWO entries sda4 and sda5 between to be preserved entries. sda1 is the Windows RE (Recovery Environment), sda2 the EFI system partition, sda3 the small Windows 8 "boot partition", sda7 the actual recovery partition - and frankly I don't know what sda6 is. Your Gparted screenshot is a little weird. To simply being able to start the recovery with that "0" key, resetting the machine to boot in UEFI mode and disabling any sort of "fast/quick boot" setting your BIOS settings provide might be all there is to it? If you really needed Windows 8 (for key reasons) you would first have to create a temporary Windows installation, for creating a Windows 8 install media from there, or you could use another Windows machine if you got access to one. As an additional hurdle, you can't download the Windows 8 ISO directly, but just the Windows 8.1 ISO. It would not do this, if you start by installing 8.1 on a notebook with a Windows 8 key in UEFI. But if you don't have the key, this would probably mean you'd have to read it from encrypted UEFI store, and this can only be done by first installing the OS the notebook first came with, which will make the OS automatically pull the key from UEFI, this giving you the possibility for grabbing the key from the running OS. What Windows exactly did your notebook ship with? Was it 8 or 8.1? Was it 32 bit or 64bit?Ĭurrently Windows 8.1 setup finally allows using Windows 8 keys from what I have read. If you have the key: Where does this key come from? Was it vendor supplied, did you read it from your running Windows installation? Do you still have the Windows serial-key?
The way for getting a Windows installation depends on: Obviously you don't have the first one at the moment. Key to restoring your notebook state now, would be having an installation medium (Windows from Microsoft) or a recovery medium (created by yourself using "Toshiba Recovery Media Creator".)įor both you need a running windows installation and your Windows key.
But after a second look, all those partitions are too small for keeping a Windows installation. I saw all those FAT and NTFS partition and was under the wrong assumption, that Windows was still residing on your hard disk, but just not bootable.
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