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    Recovery issues on two P205's

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by GeoGoGo, Aug 13, 2008.

  1. GeoGoGo

    GeoGoGo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Everyone,

    I have run into identical problems with two almost identical machines. One is a P205-S6267 and the other is a P205-S6327. Both have had new hard drives installed.

    When running the recovery on them, I get the same error message. The window is titled COPY FILE and says

    'Cannot read from the source file or disk.

    PREINST3.SWM
    Type: SWM file
    Size: 624MB
    Date modified: 3/1/2007 2:30 AM

    Try Again Skip Cancel.'

    I have tried different combinations of recovery disks from one machine to the next with no luck. I have run fdisk and formatted both drives manually and that had no effect. I have done some searching online but could not find any resolutions.

    If anyone has any information, it will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for the time.

    GeoGoGo
     
    GeoGoGo, Aug 13, 2008
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  2. allan_huang

    allan_huang Notebook Deity

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    Are you doing this off the HDD or the DVD's?
     
    allan_huang, Aug 13, 2008
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    SHAWNEEK Notebook Enthusiast

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    If it is from a CD/DVD, it could be due to bad media... or scratched media.. Call tosh Cust service and see if you can get it replaced...
     
    SHAWNEEK, Aug 14, 2008
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    I did some additional searching and found a fix (well, work around). As advised, I made a copy of disk one of the recovery set. I started the recovery with the burned disk and it runs as normal.

    Both systems performed identically; running the restore off the copy and switching to the original disk two. I just thought I'd pass this info along. Thank for the time and info guys.

    GeoGoGo
     
    GeoGoGo, Aug 14, 2008
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