Making recovery disks

I got my L500-128 today and am trying to burn the recovery disks. The first time the first disk took 5-10 minutes but the second disk stalled half way through. After half an hour I cancelled and rebooted. When I took out the disk it was nearly full.

I'm now trying again and the status bar of the second disk has been half filled for nearly 2 hours now. I called Toshiba and he advice me to wait a while and if the status hasn't advance at five pm I should abort. Then I can choose what to do: 1. reinstall windows from the hard drive 2. bring it back to the computer shop 3. order the disks from Toshiba and the request the money back for them.

I don't think the disks are the problem because I'm not getting any error messages and both times the first disk didn't have any problems.

I have no idea how long it should/can take to burn recovery disks and how long I should keep it running.

Any advice is welcome.

 

Never mind. Recovery files turned out to have problems: reïnstalling made it go into a loop of booting and then, after windows was started, giving a screen telling me that it was setting up windows, restarting and starting the whole thing again.

According to a very nice Toshiba helpdesk person they consider this a DOA and I could trade it in for a new one at the store. The store tells me Toshiba is wrong and are going to "repair" it. As long as I get good recovery files I'm fine with it, but I suspect they will just install Windows for me. Tomorrow I'm going to call Toshiba to see what they can do, since they registered my notebook as a possible DOA.

Except for the faulty files it is a really nice notebook. Very quiet, good screen, keyboard and overall feel.