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Factory Recovery CD/Floppy
Name: Toshibaguy Date: March 27, 2007 at 09:40:52 Pacific OS: Win95 CPU/Ram: 128MB Product: Toshiba Infinia 7200
Comment:
I have an Toshiba Infinia 7200 multimeidia machine. I recently lost the the harddrive. I installed a new HD and attempted to run the factory recovery cd to restore the system to factoy specs. I get a "wrong machine" message. I've been told that my recovery cd may be corruted. Need to get a working copy of this software.
Name: orbital Date: March 27, 2007 at 12:03:13 Pacific
Reply:
Usually the hard drive has a hidden partition which is used in conjunction with the Toshiba Recovery CD. That is the problem with OEM PC's you do not get an O/S Disk........
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Response Number 2
Name: Toshibaguy Date: March 27, 2007 at 12:19:14 Pacific
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This system was built in 1996. No special partitions. The recovery cd was the ultimate backup.
Toshibaguy
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Response Number 3
Name: Derek Date: March 27, 2007 at 13:46:48 Pacific
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The message (if that's exactly what it says) does fit nicely with what orbital suggested.
Whatever, if you can't get a replacement CD from Toshiba then you need to search eBay (or somewhere) for a full W95 CD.
Sometimes copying faulty CD's works (surprisingly). Stick around, someone might have one that could be sent to you but I don't fancy your chances too much.
DerekW
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Response Number 4
Name: orbital Date: March 27, 2007 at 14:07:55 Pacific
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If in the UK let me know, still have a few W95 CD's...........
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Response Number 5
Name: Toshibaguy Date: April 7, 2007 at 22:43:15 Pacific
Reply:
Orbital,
Toshiba no longer supports this product build. Even a registered service center contacted Toshiba about this error. Toshiba said that the need for a DMI file on the motherboard is not needed (1996), yet I get this message for a process developed for a much newer machine. I need the original specially programmed recovery cd and floppy sent with each machine at purchase. I susspect though that I may get the same results. I'm also looking for a Win98 First Edition cd. The Toshiba web site lists a procedure to run all of the software using Win98. Any suggestions?
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