Recovery Disk Creation Error (Windows Vista / Satillite A200)

Hello Everyone,
I have a Satellite A200 running Vista.  This is inherited so I will do the best to describe the issue:
Mainly because it's inherited and running terrible I wanted to wipe the drive back to factory settings:
When creating the disks, it get about 1/2 way through the first one, then gives an error similar to:
Unable to Read (drive)\ZZImages\ZZImages\preinst.swm.
I unfortunately did not write down the specific error message, and I will make a new frisbee if required to find out (unless it has a log?)
It happened once while at the previous owners posestion, so before running it myself I can a chkdsk on the C Drive.
There was a 2nd partition, 5GB that's empty, as well as a HIDDEN partition (unsure of size) that had quite a few files on it.
I had inspected the systems within Linux which reads everything fine, then set the chkdsk flag (Dirty Bit) to ensure a full scan of the C drive.
Any suggestions as to what I can do would be great.

Scanning the C: drive won't have any affect on this.  The images are storred in the larger hidden partition that you should NOT scan.  Since it happened to the original owner and to yourself it's fiarly obvious that the problem lies in the recovery partition.  Your best bet at this time would be to order a replacement set of recovery disks from Toshiba.  See the second post in this Recovery Forum for details. 
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