Trying to do a restore on Portege M200

Hi
Anyone got any ideas on how to do a restore from a toshiba restore dvd without an optical or fdd drive?????????
I've been trying to do it via a PXE as described here
http://home.allegiance.tv/~joem298/
but since i don't have a floppy drive i've use set up the PXE via the instructions from here
http://blog.ryantadams.com/2008/02/01/how-to-boot-from-the-network-pxe-boot-with-tftp-and-windows-pe/
but every time i run the install.bat i get these errors
'XMSDSK' is not recognised as an internal or exteranl command, operable program or batch file.
'PREDATA.BAT' is not recognised as an internal or exteranl command, operable program or batch file.
'TGHOST' is not recognised as an internal or exteranl command, operable program or batch file.
this is getting really really annoying.
Isn't there a simple way of doing a restore without an opitcal drive or a fdd??
Can't it be done from the sd card or a usb drive??
Anyone??????

I am trying to do the same thing from the following link: http://home.allegiance.tv/~joem298/
The problem is, when I launch "install.bat" I'm getting an error that states:
*"ERROR: install.bat is not a cabinet file"*
I can't figure this out. I downloaded the bat file from that guess site directly and placed it in the \Base directory with the other files. I don't have the SD card option available and booting to the network is my only resort.
Very frustrating!!

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