Won't boot from Toshiba Recovery Media; Will boot from Win 8 builder DVD

Satellite L855-S5309, Windows 8, 64-bit
Created 2 sets of Windows 8 Recovery Media using Toshiba Recovery Media Creator. First set a year ago, created a new set yesterday.
The laptop will not boot to either set (DVD 1). The DVD is bootable in another machine. EUFI is grayed out.
Tried a Windows 8 DVD store bought. It booted from this DVD.
The big question: Why won't the Toshiba laptop see its own DVD it created for recovery?
Win 8 Repair DVD - boots from USB drive but won't see DVD files on drive. Is this the image?
Do I need to order the recovery media?
Darryl

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I have a Satellite P55-A5312 with pre-installed Windows 8 (upgraded to 8.1), Intel i5 processor and 6GB Ram. I created a set of DVD recovery media and a USB Flash (Toshiba brand 32GB) recovery drive. I set the boot order in BIOS to USB, then DVD, then HDD. Secure Boot is enabled.
Question I have is, how can I verify that the reovery media will boot if needed? If I power on the laptop, neither the DVD nor USB will boot and it goes directly to Windows, which kind of makes sense. If I then restart, the DVD recovery media will in fact boot, but the USB recovery media won't boot. Even if I restart with F12 and choose USB as the boot device, the USB media will not boot. The only way I can get the USB recovery media to boot is if I disable Secure Boot.
I find it hard to believe that USB recovery media will only work if Secure Boot is disabled. What am I doing wrong?
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Sure would be nice to know what the recovery media boot behavior is suppose to be with Secure Boot enabled...
With a little luck, Peter will stop by and let us know.
-Jerry

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We just received 2 - Toshiba Satallite L755-S5308 Laptops over the thanksgiving holiday from Best Buy and the first thing we normally do after powering up the laptops is to create our recovery disc sets to DVD's. However, both laptops are giving the same error message on both machines at the same point in the creation of the Recovery DVD Disc 4 when using the Toshiba Recovery Media Creator. Please See Eror Message Below:
Failed To Read The Following File.
D:\ZZImages\ZZImages\Preinst18.swm
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If you are getting this error message then you will not be able to restore your laptop factory software and operating system (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit)

You could create an image of the entire HDD onto another drive, but this can be a headache for a lot of users and would require specialized hardware and a HDD enclosure. As such, it's not a feasible solution.
Oh,come now. You can buy 'specialized hardware' -- an HDD enclosure -- from a widely known online computer store for $12.99 with free shipping, and a spare plain old Seagate 500 GB hard drive (nothing very special about it, except that it costs more since the flooding in Thailand) running at 7200 rpm from a different widely known online computer store for $99.99 (shipping extra). Seagate gives away its branded version of Acronis True image for free. It is not that hard to use. I believe the L755 has a 500 GB 5400 rpm hard disc drive, so this Seagate may make the laptop run faster under some conditions. Creating an image of the laptop HDD onto this 2nd HDD mounted in the enclosure may take hours, but consider the only other alternative, below:
Anyone who thinks that solution is not feasible can just wait until their one and only hard disc drive fails or develops a software problem. Without usable recovery discs, the machine must be dropped off or mailed to a service center. Compare the waiting and the expense to have someone else solve that kind of problem with the effort and expense of preventing it. If you don't mind being without your computer for a few days or weeks, go for the simple way.
By the way, even the best home-burned optical discs are prone to develop unexpected failures after they are created. I've never had a factory pressed optical disc properly stored develop a late failure. If these work out of the box, they work a couple of years later. The technologies behind a home-burned disc and a factory-pressed disc are different.
Getting back to my original point, should your 1st HDD fail, and should you have a 2nd HDD with the cloned image of the 1st HDD, your recovery takes as long as it takes to remove HDD #1, installed HDD #2, and reboot your laptop, involving about 5 minutes of your time and perhaps a small screwdriver. You can test whether or not your cloned backup works the same way, by installing HDD #2 and seeing if it works. If you only have a single HDD, there is no good way to test your recovery media, since they overwrite your original HDD.

Satellite C50-A-19T problem with TOSHIBA Recovery Media Creator

When i try to make Recovery dvd with TOSHIBA Recovery Media Creator the burning fails.
I have Satellite C50-A-19T with TSSTcorpCDDVDW_SU-208DB_T cd/dvd-rw unit.
During burning process i get an error that say that is impossible read the file D:\ZZImages\ZZImages\install29.swm (the .swm file in error change with different attempts).
I marked the option to verify dvd after burning.
I tried a few times: i try make a single dvd (requires 3 dvd for complete recovery).
i try 2 times with verbatim dvd+r the fist try failed, the second succeeded with the same kind of support.
i try make dvd numb. 2. for two time with dvd-r and dvd +r support and it failed again.
On windows error report i find this error:
and this alert:
+ODD Firmware Update to fix problems with the Toshiba Recovery CD creator+
I see this solution by upgrading firmware for different models of cd/dvd-rw units
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB9C02RP0000R01.htm
but not about the model I have.
i have:
TOSHIBA Recovery Media Creator version: 3.1.02.55065006
windows 8.1 x64.
there is a solution?
is a known problem?
thanks
Elena

> I don't have a free usb drive to test the usb mode.
I would recommend you to purchase an separate USB memory stick and to create the such recovery USB flash memory media.
Please check also this different procedure described in this Toshiba HowTO
[How to create a USB recovery media flash drive from recovery ISO images- or discs (DVDs)|http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD4103KB0000R01.htm]
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Dual boot Windows from Toshiba Recovery CD

Is it possible to dual boot Windows from a Toshiba Recovery CD?
I have a Satellite A45-S120 with a Toshiba Windows XP Recovery CD.
I have XP installed on one partition. I partitioned the hard drive using GParted, and installed Linux on several partitions. I want to install XP on a 2nd partition, so I can dual boot 2 versions of Windows from the same hard drive.
When I go to install Windows, the Toshiba Recovery CD says the entire hard drive will be deleted. Is this the case, or will it only reformat a partition? I went into GParted and was able to change the first Windows XP ntfs partition to hidden, and now successfully can not boot Windows from the Grub Boot Manager. However, I worry that if GParted can see the partition, then the Toshiba Recovery CD might be able to. In addition, the Linux ext partitions could not be set to hidden. Will the Toshiba Recovery CD overwrite all the partitions, or can it maybe only install itself on the one ntfs partition available?
I read at http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/193560-install-xp-toshiba-recovery-disk-d.html that there may be a way possible, any advice?
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I want to install XP on a 2nd partition,
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-Jerry

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HT4718 if i boot from the recovery disk, will my files be erased?

Cannot load OS.

No, they won't. But, if you can't boot because the hard drive is bad, then you may have already lost your files.
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Satellite A300-20P - How to restore from Toshiba recovery?

Hi ..
my friend has this laptop: Satellite A300-20P.
I'm not sure what he did, but he installed Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit, then 32-bit again. The whole thing messed up.
Anyway, he didnt make a recovery disk for his laptop (damn thing). Now, becasue I have a Toshiba laptop too I know that there is Recovery on the Harddisk on the D partition (not the windows partition). I tried to use "Repair Windows" booting Windows, when I try to restore the whole PC from a backup media it says " No backup media found", now I'm not sure if the recovery sector still available or not, because the Windows cant boot. So is there away to find the recovery media?
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Hi
To be honest Im confused at the moment because first you wrote about a problem of your friends notebook and you wrote something about your own notebook where you try repair Windows.
So I dont understand what you mean exactly.
But fact is you have two possibilities to restore factory settings:
1)Use the Toshiba HDD recovery option. You can start it if you go in advanced boot menu (F8) and select Repair my computer. Then follow the screen instructions.
The first partition of the HDD will be wiped and you get factory settings back.
2)Use the Toshiba recovery disk. Its very similar to HDD recovery option but whole HDD will be wiped (all files will be deleted). After this you have factory settings back, too.
So thats all what you can do to restore the factory settings. If the HDD recovery option not work and you dont have a recovery disk you have to order a new one from Toshiba directly.
Alternative you can use a Microsoft disk to install Windows and then download and install all drivers and tools from Toshiba website step by step.

How to lauch Win XP Recovery Console from M30x recovery media?

I'm getting an error message on startup to the effect that the windows\system32\config/system file is missing or corrupt. Obviously I can't startup! It also says to hit 'r' on the first screen of the recovery procedure- but such an option isn't ON the first screen of the recovery disk, and since there's a lot of crucial (and unbacked up- this thing belongs to my parents..) stuff on it, I can't risk accidentally going into reformat mode. Then again, it's been a long time since I've done this- is it possible to reinstall windows without documents being affected? Unfortunately we only have the OEM copy of XP, not a proper disk.

Unfortunately, the Toshiba recovery CD is not the same as a original Windows CD from the Microsoft.
The recovery CD contains only a ghost image files. If you will boot up from the Recovery CD the whole HDD will be erased.
If you have created a several partitions you can use a expert mode to install the OS on a single partition. Then only this partition will be deleted.
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UPDATE : Toshiba Recovery Wizard 'cannot read from source file or disk' error (satellite L500)

UPDATE 2: Phoned Toshiba tech support again, guided by techie to begin the recovery again. Just before phoning I was able to go into recovery options and view the drive setup and all the files that couldn't be read are on the CD so I've no idea why the error kept occuring, and neither did the techie. Fingers crossed it works this time but I'm not overly hopefully given that we've just done exactly the same as I did before. UPDATE 1: I got into the BIOS and reset everything back to defaults and yay, my toshiba recovery wizard now starts! :-D On the down side, when trying to do a factory default software / out of the box recovery I continually get error messages with regards to copying the files, for example
cannot read from source file or disk
7z.dll
Type application extension
size 585kb
date modified 7/14/2009 10.26pm
other read / copy errors include PREINST6.SWM, BOOT_32, BOOTPRIORITY, CHECKMAXPTSIZE, CHGBOOT, CPU, CPUCHECK, CREATEPARTITION, CTRLDRVINFO, DISKWIPE, DMI, DPINST32, EBLIB.DLL, ERRORDIALOG, EW3BOOTSEQ, FWLINK, FWLINK.SYS, GETHDDINFO, GETKEYSTATE, IMAGEX, INFILED, INITRECAREA, KRAIADAPI.DLL ..... at which point I decided to 'skip all' :-/
Any explanations as to what's going on and how I might be able to fix it would be very much appreciated! :-) Thank you!
I have a two and half year old satellite L500 with an Intel i-3 and 4 gigs of RAM, on which I was running Windows 7.
Admittedly it’s had rather a hard life (I ran some very demanding CAD / graphics software on it) but it had always performed well until just recently, when after suffering several BSOD (which had never happened before), the hard drive failed.
I partitioned and formatted a brand new hard drive (which is perfectly fine and functions normally when hooked up to another laptop with a SATA to USB cable) and obtained system recovery discs from Toshiba. Unfortunately, when I try and run the first disc, windows starts to load files but then generates an error screen with the message Error F3-F100-0003 and a request to turn the computer off.
When I use the windows Memory Diagnostic to get into the Windows Boot Manager Screen I get the following;
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware / software change might be the case.
To fix the problem
Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer
Choose your language settings and click ‘next’
Click ‘repair your computer’
File: \boot\memtest.exe
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
I can also use F8 on startup to get into the advanced boot options but selecting any of them simply results in the F3-F100-0003 error message. I’ve run a memory test using the UBCD, which tells me the memory is fine, and tried another hard drive (which also works perfectly well in another laptop) but no joy. On phoning Toshiba support the techie said my hard drive had failed, but as I say, both hard drives are perfectly fine / usable when hooked up to another laptop. I’m now completely stuck as to what the problem is and how I might resolve it – any advice / suggestions would be most gratefully received! Thank you in advance :-)

Satellite L655-S5096
Downloads here.
the second disc gives me the the "cannot read from source file or disk PREINST8.SWM"
My best guess is that the disc is not readable. Try copying it to another. Sometimes that works.
Otherwise, order new discs from Toshiba.
-Jerry

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Toshiba provides very little bloatware compared to a lot of manufacturers. Also like most other majour manufacturer's, Toshiba does not provide full install disks, just the ability to create recovery media. He cannot do a clean install unless he has access to media through other channels.
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