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    WTB Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 MK5 Restore Disks

    Discussion in 'ToughBook Buy Sell and Trade Forum' started by Scooterboy1000, Feb 9, 2011.

  1. Scooterboy1000

    Scooterboy1000 Notebook Enthusiast

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    CF-29 MK5 Model # CF-29NAQGZBM. I am looking for all 3 restore disks. Every problem I have will be solved.
     
    Scooterboy1000, Feb 9, 2011
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  2. mogrady

    mogrady Newbie

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    Scoot,

    I purchased off eBay a disc containing CF-29 Manuals/Drivers/BIOS from;

    ECB Direct Sales and Trading
    173 Paulsboro Road
    Swedesboro, New Jersey 08085

    I think it was 5 bucks plus postage.

    And you can probably get the needed drivers etc.off the Panasonic Support site also.

    For an alternative you might try some Linux Live CD's. I have used the following distros on my CF-29 and they work fine; Puppy Linux 5.2, Lubuntu 10.10, and Linux Mint 10 LXDE. No driver issues, got onto the WWW painlessly, and things worked well including battery usage even having to use the CD-ROM to load and run the distros.

    Good luck. Michael
     
    mogrady, Feb 20, 2011
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  3. toughasnails

    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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    Them CD's on fleabay are a ripoff, in 7 minutes I could (and have) download all the stuff you got from panasonic web site.

    He is looking for the disks that contain the OS...XP. With these 3 disks you can load the XP and the drivers in about 25 minutes.

    Scooterboy1000 I will send you a PM on the disks :)
     
    toughasnails, Feb 21, 2011
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