Are Recovery Discs bootable? - Satellite A300

Hi,
I'm having some issues making the Recovery Disc (see http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=38328&tstart=0 ), but as the main file burned to the discs is a 1+ GB *".exe"* one, I am starting to wonder if the discs are really expected to be bootable... after all you'd +usually+ require a windows envionment to execute such a file.
Or maybe the files required to "run" that .exe are supposed to be in the bootable part of the disc?
Thanks in advance.

Fedora DVD burned in the laptop booted just fine.
These are the contents of the Recovery Disc the system is creating
27/11/2005 05:29 p.m. 49 AUTORUN.INF
14/08/2008 02:58 a.m. 8 DISK.1
14/08/2008 02:58 a.m. 3,990 FILES.INI
17/09/2007 08:44 a.m. 1,058,160 INSTALL.EXE
28/08/2008 10:23 p.m. 25,343 INSTALL.INI
27/11/2005 05:31 p.m. 6,867 TBIOSDRV.SYS
22/11/2008 02:44 p.m. <DIR> comps1
Inside the "comps1" directory are the applications and drivers
Could someone copare it to their RD and see if spot any difference??
Edit:
I am asking because of this post by "Barrie"
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=139836#139836
Thanks.
Message was edited by: MadOp

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