Recovery Console OEM

[gderreck]

I have a Toshiba Satellite M40 laptop with XP home.
However, the machine came with a proprietary recovery cd.
I want to access the recovery console. I've been all over
the net trying to find a solution. No luck. What I did
find out was that I could: buy a retail copy of XP(duh),
or download the startup diskettes from microsoft(don't
have a floppy drive). The recovery cd from toshiba will
only recover the machine to the out of box state. That is
not an option. Just want to run the fixmbr command. Can
anyone tell me my options? Toshiba does not support
anything other than full recovery(actually, they don't
support much of anything). Now, can I download the
diskette images, and make a bootable cd that will get me
into the recovery console? If not, is there another
solution? Thanks in advance.

 

[Ron Martell]

I have a Toshiba Satellite M40 laptop with XP home.
However, the machine came with a proprietary recovery cd.
I want to access the recovery console. I've been all over
the net trying to find a solution. No luck. What I did
find out was that I could: buy a retail copy of XP(duh),
or download the startup diskettes from microsoft(don't
have a floppy drive). The recovery cd from toshiba will
only recover the machine to the out of box state. That is
not an option. Just want to run the fixmbr command. Can
anyone tell me my options? Toshiba does not support
anything other than full recovery(actually, they don't
support much of anything). Now, can I download the
diskette images, and make a bootable cd that will get me
into the recovery console? If not, is there another
solution? Thanks in advance.

Try using Bart's PE Builder from http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ to
create a bootable CD. Note - I am not sure if your Toshiba "system
recovery" CD will work for this but it is worth trying.

Once booted with the Bart's CD you can open a Command Prompt window
and run the recovery console commands.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

 

[Bob Harris]

Consider buying (or borrowing) a USB floppy drive. Most PCs that have no
floppy can be booted from a USB device, floppy or even a pen drive.
However, you will likely have to change a few BIOS settings to (1) allow
booting from a specific USB device class, and (2) to boot from USB before
attempting to boot from the hard drive.

Plan B: Use any XP CDROM to run the recovery console, since product
activation is not used for the recovery console.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the replies. Maybe the floppy would be the
best bet. Toshiba recovery cd is rigid...no options. One
more thought on this. Toshiba has a utility that can
create a bootable SD memory card. Would I be able to copy
all floppies onto the SD card and use it to get into
recovery? Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----


Try using Bart's PE Builder from

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ to

 

[gderreck]

Thanks for the replies. Maybe the floppy would be the
best bet. Toshiba recovery cd is rigid...no options. One
more thought on this. Toshiba has a utility that can
create a bootable SD memory card. Would I be able to copy
all floppies onto the SD card and use it to get into
recovery? Thanks again.

 

[raulfalco]

I have a Toshiba Satellite M40 laptop with XP home.
However, the machine came with a proprietary recovery cd.
I want to access the recovery console. I’ve been all over
the net trying to find a solution. No luck. What I did
find out was that I could: buy a retail copy of XP(duh),
or download the startup diskettes from microsoft(don’t
have a floppy drive). The recovery cd from toshiba will
only recover the machine to the out of box state. That is
not an option. Just want to run the fixmbr command. Can
anyone tell me my options? Toshiba does not support
anything other than full recovery(actually, they don’t
support much of anything). Now, can I download the
diskette images, and make a bootable cd that will get me
into the recovery console? If not, is there another
solution? Thanks in advance.

same problem..how did you resolved it?

Raul