Satellite A300-1G5: Recovery Disk Creator doesnt work anymore

I have created my recovery disk after buying new Toshiba A300-1G5 model laptop. That recovery disk is damaged now.
I have tried to make 2nd set of recovery disk, but the application is not working.
error message comming "---- orisetenv/setenv.ini file missing.
Please anybody help how to resume the application's (Recovery Disk Creator) functionality?
Another question--- does not Toshiba have a online help facility apart from this forum? Forum is from user, can't we (Toshiba Users) get online help from Toshiba technical team directly?
If yes please send me the route to reach.

I also have a problem with the L500 Toshiba disk creation software.
I initially installed the 32 bit version of Windows 7. I created recovery disks. I then restored the 64 bit version of windows 7 from the partition.
Somehow I managed to break the Toshiba disk creation software: it starts, opens, lets me choose what option I would like, then the screen disappears and it seems like another screen will appear, but it doesnt. It is like a process tries to fire and then just gives up and dies. The same thing occurs when starting the Disk recovery creator.
So I re-restored the 64 bit version of W7 to see if that would fix my Toshiba Disk Creator disappearing after the first screen. And yes, that did fix the problem - until I opened the DVD drive drawer whilst the software tried to access the drive. Stupid, but true. So then I was back to square one.
So now I know how to re-create the error - by opening the DVD drive drawer mid-process, but I am not sure whether I feel like taking 3 hours to restore and re-install all my software to have this happen again.
I tried to uninstall (worked) and re-install (worked) the disk creation software (tc00091600g.exe) which seemed to work successfully, but nothing changed - the same problem persists.
It is as if not everything was uninstalled or there is some kind of corruption of a program or process not ending/starting when it should.
If I knew a re-restore would solve the problem permanantly, I would re-do it, but it seems there is something wrong with the software that cannot detect an open drive and cancel the current operation without corrupting the system.
I can read DVDs and CDs on the drive and will now try to install other software to burn disks, but my gripe is that I can no longer create restore disks.
If anybody has any quick fixes or suggestions, that would be appreciated. I feel like it is only a minor issue and would only take a slight tweak to fix it, but I just dont know what that is.

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