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I'm in a very difficult situation and would appreicate some tips on
how to resolve this.
Toshiba notebook warranty has expired last year.
Using WinXP home.
Bought new 80G H.D. today to replace original 30G.
Can't install WinXP on it! Can hardly do anything!
First (with the help of Toshiba) I needed to update the DMI before the
notebook would even see the recovery disks.
Started the recovery process. The 80 G h.d. was formatted first (with
no option to make partitions). I got as far as the second of three CD
disks when a file read error occurred and the whole recovery process
was aborted.
"Application Error 437
Cannot read from file"
Computer re-booted spontaneously.
Tried the recovery several times and the same file read error occurs
at different times (sometimes on first disk, sometimes on second).
A legitimate Windows user is completely stymied. A simple hardware
upgrade and I'm screwed.
Any suggestions to get this working?
Thanks very much!
Eric
I'm in a very difficult situation and would appreicate some tips on
how to resolve this.
Toshiba notebook warranty has expired last year.
Using WinXP home.
Bought new 80G H.D. today to replace original 30G.
Can't install WinXP on it! Can hardly do anything!
First (with the help of Toshiba) I needed to update the DMI before the
notebook would even see the recovery disks.
Started the recovery process. The 80 G h.d. was formatted first (with
no option to make partitions). I got as far as the second of three CD
disks when a file read error occurred and the whole recovery process
was aborted.
"Application Error 437
Cannot read from file"
Computer re-booted spontaneously.
Tried the recovery several times and the same file read error occurs
at different times (sometimes on first disk, sometimes on second).
A legitimate Windows user is completely stymied. A simple hardware
upgrade and I'm screwed.
Any suggestions to get this working?
Thanks very much!
Eric