Satellite A660 - Cannot install Win 7 using external DVD drive

Hello!
Not so long time ago I asked for help with reinstalling win 7 on my laptop.
The only option was actually to order recovery dvd what I did. Today it arrived.
Problem is or was that some of CDs or DVDs couldn't be read for some reason.
Now it doesn't want to boot from cd it says drive failed.
So what I did I pluged my spare external DVD drive and it booted from that.
However just after few seconds it tells me to set "1st recovery media" and opens the disc in laptop. Tried to insert the disc - nothing, like its not inserted, tried to disable laptops cd - nothing please help

> somehow it feels very strange that company like toshiba doesn't let people too recover it computers using external drives
Sorry kamil but this is not fully correct.
I can remember times when Toshiba released some notebook series without internal ODD (optical disk drive). It was able to recover such notebook using external ODD and recovery disk or recovery USB flash memory stick.
In your case the notebook boots up from the recovery disk because it appears a message saying please insert 1st recovery media and click continue. This means that data could be read from the recovery disk but obviously this is a wrong recovery disk or there is a problem with the inserted disk.
I found interesting document how to create a USB recovery media flash drive from recovery ISO images- or discs (DVDs)
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD4103KB0000R01.htm
But if the recovery dvd isnt OK, then this method will not function.
In such case you would need to use a Microsoft installation disk or you could order a new recovery disk from Arvato service.

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