Recovery Disk wont work

I have a Qosmio F15-AV201 that came with Windows XP. I formatted the hard drive and planned to reinstall Windows and all of the Toshiba software. My recovery disk would not work. I had Toshiba send me a new disk, it would not work. Apparently, since I had the motherboard replaced, under the Circuit City extended warranty, the laptop will no longer recognize the recovery disks. I have contacted Toshiba several times for help. All they would tell me to do, was take it to the authorized service center. I sent it off to the service center.It cost me $140 to have the original Toshiba software installed. The bad part is, they still cant give me a recovery disk. When I have trouble in the future, I won't be able to reinstall anything. Does anyone have any advice?

well it wont boot to the cd if you dont tell it to. when the laptop gets to the toshiba splash screen hit F12. the go over to the boot tab and move cd/dvd up to the top of the list. then save and exit. insert the recovery media and then reboot. it should start the with the dvd. make sure it is very clean and no scratches. i guess it is still up and running from toshiba fixing it so when you are in windows look for recovery media creator. if it is there try to make a new set of media since they would have reformated and put the partitions back.
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Hi,
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Assuming that this is just a problem with the Recovery process, there is a straight forward work around.
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Windows-7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit
Use the disc to perform the installation, enter the Windows activation key found on the COA Label when requested and when the installation has completed, use the 'Phone Method' detailed in the link below to activate the OS - this method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who just want a clean installation of Windows 7 without the additional software load normally bundled with OEM installations.
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Recovery disks not working

I have an HP G60 Notebook PC, Product # NW144UA#ABA
The computer got a virus and couldnt open Microsoft Office applications so I wanted to restore it to the original factory settings. I created my own set of recovery disks (used 3 DVD-Rs). I started the recovery manager and followed the steps, the first disk worked just fine then popped out and asked for the second. I tried to put in the second disk (correctly labeled from when it was made) and it said the disk is not good, please insert disk #2. I have tried this several times and same thing. Now I can't even get back to the regular computer. When I turn it off or cancel the recovery manager it comes up with a black screen saying BootMGR not working (or something.. cant remember exact words). At one point in trying the recovery manager I got an "error 1002 please contact HP" message. I have tried to keep inserting disk #2 and after 20 times it still wouldnt work. I have tried to call HP customer service and was told I could buy recovery disks, but shouldn't my disks work? Please help!!!

Hi:
Sometimes the recovery disks don't work that you make for one reason or another.
Unfortunately, there are hundreds of posts like yours and unfortunately, very few answers. I have yet been able to help someone get their recovery disks to work.
So, I see that you may have two options (only one if you can't read all 25 characters of the Vista product key on the bottom of your PC:
1. Order a set of HP recovery disks and hope they work.
2. Make your own plain windows vista installation media if you can read your vista product key.
This will NOT restore your PC to factory condition. It will only install the operating system, and you will need to either have your program installation files and also use whatever downloads and drivers are available from your notebook's support and driver page.
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Cannot get recovery disk to work on CQ58

Model Compaq CQ58
Product number is C2M29UA#ABA
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Sorry about that. I should have caught it.
Did you happen to have virus or malware activity as the reason you want to use the recovery disks?
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Resolves an issue where Recovery Discs sent from HP do not work on a new hard drive or one that has been fully cleaned or "wiped".
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I have compaq cq50. was VISTA upgraded to WIN 7. Recovery disks not working. BOOTMGR compressed

will not boot up. I have 2 recovery disks, the 1 of 2 will take but 2 of 2 disk doesnt run.

Hi:
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Satellite L455-S500 Recovery Disks NOT Working (Windows 7 HP)

DH bought a Satellit L455-S500 in May of 2010. It worked well for just over three years. Then it into a spiral of failing to boot up...virus scans showed issues and nothing was removing them. The computer would not make a backup copy - so we started the recovery process with the press 0 and release as it booted.
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I have a Toshiba Satellite L350 which I bought some years ago
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Thats very strange that al recovery discs show the same error message. As far as I know when you start recovery image installation the HDD will be formatted, new partitions created, recovery image copied on second HDD partition and as last step is recovery image installation.
>I had bought one from Toshiba when I got the machine originally and had made one myself before the upgrade to windows 7...
Have you tested both of them in the past?
Generally speaking all you do is right. In my opinion the problem can be recovery image itself or maybe HDD has some failure on certain sectors.
If you can obtain second HDD somewhere exchange it, set BIOS to default settings and test recovery installation again.

Recovery Disks Not Working - Windows 8

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Just out of curiosity I installed Linux Mint, hoping to dual-boot my system.
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Success!
Although I have to say that with a poplation of over 7 billion I did think that my problem would have attracted more response than just one reply.
However, my thanks to Indypat for that. You gave me the hope to keep trying.
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Satellite Pro L300 PSLB1A: Recovery disk not working - 0xc000000f error

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