Recovery Disk Creator (Express Media Player)

Hello,
This is my first visit to these forums. I bought my Toshiba Satellite A105-S4284 laptop back in November 2006 from CompUSA. Recently, I had to take my laptop to a local repair shop because I updated McAfee and the desktop froze- this is just some previous info, this problem is fixed. They just backed up my data, then reinstalled the operating system.
I'm trying to create a recovery disk using the pre-install software that came with the laptop. It is called "Recovery Disk Creator (Express Media Player)". I used this in the past many times before I had the problem explained above, but this is the first time I am using it since I pick my laptop up from the repair shop. I get the following error message when I double click on the shortcut icon on the desktop: "Recovery Disc Creator- No compatible Recordable or Rewritable devices could be found on your system." Also, when I use Nero 9 Nero Express I just get failed attempts and the DVD/CD ejects. Both of these worked fine before.
My specs:
Toshiba Satellite A105-S4284
Intel Centrino Duo T 2050 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM
Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 (both worked before with SP2)
Thank you

If you have used this in the past to create the disks just use one of the previous disks to restore the system. The disk you made previously would be exactly the same as you would create now.
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

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Hi Jaba
Thnx for reply.
Now i would answer the questions asked by you and try to clear you confusion,
Yes, Express Media Player was previously installed on my machine, and I have used it, it was perfectly working.
About installation of Media Player, The whole story is that, firstly i wasnt known about how to make a Toshiba express media player recovery cd through windows, so downloaded an ISO of the media player from a forum and install media player by first deleting partitions.
After that I can again installed xp through recovery dvd and choose the option "out of box" state and then selected "install without changing partitions"
After a successfull recovery, I shutdown my pc and pressed the media player button, the media player logo appeared for 5 seconds and then my laptop shutsdown, this is happening all the time when i start my laptop by the Express media player button.
After this I read somewhere how to create a backup recovery cd for Express media player, So i run the recovery disk creater and made a backup of Toshiba Express media player.
After doing the above procedure I again formated my hard drive through recovery dvd and selecting the option "Delete partitions and overwrite sectors". When this was finished, i booted my laptop with the newly made recovery cd for express player, after selecting English as my language, This it what said:
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THIS WILL ERASE THE COMPLETE HDD!!!!!!!!
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(its easier to describe and there are a lot of descriptions for FDISK on the net)
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--> At DOS prompt type:
gdisk 1 /cre /pri /sz:50% -> creates a primary 1st partition
gdisk 1 /cre /ext -> creates a extended 2nd partition
gdisk 1 /cre /log -> creates a 2nd partition logical
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7) Use menu: Local\Partition\From Image, choose GHO image in menu
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1 Primary 07 NTFS DiskLoad ...-> Choose this one!
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Bye

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Where I can get It? (even Google couldn't find it).
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