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Then some have a hidden recovery button where you need to stick a paperclip in – either on the bottom or next to a USB port.īasically, the only time you’ll need to recover your Chromebook is if you’re messing around in developer mode, but you never know. To boot from the USB drive, typically, you’ll need to hold down the Power+Escape+Refresh then go through the recovery. Switch your machine to Developer mode and get to a shell by either via VT2 (Ctrl. To boot your image you will first need to enable booting developer signed images from USB (or SD card). Build an image and write it to a USB stick or SD card. The board name for the Toshiba CB30 is 'leon'.

There you’ll find it – in my example for the Samsung Chromebook 303 it’s SNOW DENALI A-E 2577. Follow the quick start guide to setup a build environment. To do so, type: chrome://system and expand the section called HWID. Use a recovery image if you want to get back to a stock Chrome OS build. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. Once the crosh shell has launched, you'll type 'shell' to get to the root Linux shell from within your Chrome. The crosh shell will now launch in a separate tab of the Chrome browser.

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If you want to create a recovery drive using your Windows or Mac computer, you need to find the correct model to enter in the screen above before getting an error message. Note: This will replace EVERYTHING on your SSD. Just press ctrl + alt + T and this brings you to what's called the crosh shell (command prompt or terminal) on a Chromebook.

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You’ll need to download and run the system and enter the device’s model number with appears at the bottom of the error. You can find the instructions and correct download from this Google Page. You’ll need either a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer and a flash or SD drive that’s at least 4GB in size. If you’re at the point where you receive an error message saying “Chrome OS is missing or damaged” and haven’t created a recovery drive yet, you still can. Please take out the flash or SD card and keep it in a safe place if you need it at some point. That’s it! Provided everything went the way it should, you’ll see the following successful message. Select the drive you popped into the Chromebook and wait for the recovery image to download, and the recovery drive is created. Select the drive you popped into the Chromebook and wait for the recovery image to download. Instead, download the Chromebook Recovery Utility from Google.

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Update : Google has removed the tool from your Chromebook. Then open the Chrome browser and type: chrome://imageburner into the address bar to get the following screen. Grab a USB flash drive or SD card that’s 4GB or higher and insert it into one of the open USB slots. If you receive a new Chromebook, it’s important to create a system recovery image if something goes wrong, and a Hard Reset or Power Wash ( resetting it to factory settings) doesn’t work.

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