No HDD Recovery Area, Windows 7 backup process fails.

(similar problem to Mr. archegudnam posting)
This new Toshiba NB205 Running Win7 consistently fails attempts to use the Recovery Media Creator.
"No HDD Recovery Area" is the quoted cause. However, the Windows Administrator Disk Management Tool reports the partition to be healthy.
Additionally, Windows Backup Tool fails. No backup media is created, including disk image option failure, regardless the backup data selection criteria (windows choose or I choose ). Following the logs to the failure report indicated, specify an "unsupported file system".
All available updates (Windows and Toshiba) have been requested via automatic update tools.
Comments?
-dbrown
Regards,
dbrown
NB205-N325BL, Win 7/32.

Mr. archegudnam
You are not alone. I have a new Toshiba NB205 running Windows7, and I too receive the message "No HDD Recovery Area" from the OEM Toshiba Recovery Media Creator s/w bundled on the machine, as received at purchase.
Using Windows Backup also fails, sees an "unsupported file system", will not back up or even create a simple disk image.
The only thing I have not tried yet is the image creator built into the u-lead s/s bundled with the Toshiba CD/DVD (USB) Optical Drive accessory, the one advertised alongside the NB205 on Toshiba web site.
Mr. Jim - Is there any help from Toshiba on the horizon for this issue? I have already attempted to find posted updates with the built-in update tool.
Best Regards to both,
dbrown
Regards,
dbrown
NB205-N325BL, Win 7/32.

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> However, when I start my laptop with the Advanced Boot Menu (F8), I find only the HDD Recovery menu in the System Recovery Options, no Recovery Wizard.
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> I tried to start this wizard by starting the computer with the zero (0) key from the top but it did not work. I shut down the windows, pushed and held 0, turned on my laptop, when Toshiba logo appeared I sill held the zero key and instead of the Recovery Wizard, the Windows started.
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