Recovery Media Creation Problems

After canceling once becuase it seemed to be taking forever for the files to be extracted while trying to create the reocvery media, I tried again and gave it some more time. In the meanwhile, I saw an S Partition. Once the extracting finished, the S partition dissappeared (Or at least it wasn't visable) I made the boot CD, but the next step is to put in a DVD. It keeps on telling me that the "The disc in the recorder is not supported" But I've tried like 6 different types of DVDs....So I totally don't know what is going on...Has anyone else had this problem? or do you know what is going on?
Thanks! I am using an DP dvd 940 external burner. The CD boot disc was created just fine. I've tried both DVD-R and DVD+R.

 

Call tech support and see if they will just send you a recovery disk at no charge.

I had to try three times to get mine to work, and used DVD's only, not the one CD and 3 DVD's that it shows that one has to use. Others have used just dvd's only and burned just fine.

 

I used a Lite-On external DVD burner without a problem. I used 4 DVD's but don't remember if they were +R or -R. I am pretty sure the first boot disk could have been a CD as there was only 242 MB of data on it.

 

I used a Samsung external DVD recorder to burn my recover discs and they burned just fine, 1 CD and 3 DVDs.

However...they would not restore to a blank hard drive.

After burning the recovery discs, I removed the factory hard drive and put in an SSD I'd bought. Connected the DVD burner and inserted the boot CD and restarted the computer. Initially it booted just fine and started 'copying files' to install Windows.

The first time I tried it, when it asked for DVD #1 to be inserted I put it in the DVD burner but the system kept saying "incorrect DVD, please insert #1". Finally I gave up, turned the machine completely off and tried again.

This time it booted and started copying again. It switched to DVD #1 just fine this time, then DVD #2 was a success. However, when it got to DVD #3 it gave me the error again "incorrect DVD, please insert #3".

At this point I gave up and reinstalled Windows 7 Pro from a DVD to the SSD using the same DVD burner and it was completely successful. I then installed all the drivers and this thing is working great.

So, just because it created the recovery discs doesn't mean they're useable. If you have a spare 2.5" drive laying around, you might try reinstalling to it just to test them to make sure.

 

I dont understand why they dont just send us discs with the computer. Or make it a $3 option or something...so annoying...i need to get rid of the partition also...