Satellite L300-29U hangs at waiting for ODD to become ready

I sell Toshiba's.
I always make recovery dics for my customers. I do it on Philips DVD's.
Now I have tried Windows 7 on one positively and tried to recover to vista again before selling the laptop.
The problem is that when I try to recover, the system hangs at "waiting for ODD to become ready "
I tried several things,
-formatting the harddisk
-removing the partition
-windows vista oem CD (installs fine, so does 7) etc etc.
I have another laptop in stock so I used the recovery discs of that one, result is that it hangs at the same point.
Now I tried to restore the other laptop (same model) and there the recovery dvd hangs at the same point.
I think there is an programming error in the recovery dvd program.
Greets,
Vincent
Holland

Not a chance.
Toshiba is sending out an update for the imaging program because they found out it did not work themselves.
Now just wait for the helpdesk to send out free copies for the people who burnt themselves faulty rescue dvd's?

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