Equium M50: Have no windows recovery CD?

I have recently purchased a Toshiba Equium M50 laptop computer and have been given no windows XP Home recovery CD's in the event of ever having to re-boot the system. I assumed at the time that I would be able to make my own copy from the hard drive but this doesn't seem possible or if it is I'm not sure how to do it.
I've been told that Toshiba should supplt these. Is this true? If so, how do I go about getting these CD's sent to me? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Toshiba do not supply Windows XP install CDs only a Product Recovery CD/DVD in the event of an unrecoverable error. This is because the disc has all the required drivers and software pre-installed and finely configured. It also avoids the nagging issues regarding software licensing and activation. I can understand your need to have a boot CD but I would recommend you create something like BartPE instead. - http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder
In the event of a problem BartPE will provide you with a Windows XP working environment that boots directly from the CD-ROM. Not only that it also fully supports networking and external USB flash/hard drive drives perfect for backing up important data.
Richard S.

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