Portege R100 - burn my own recovery CD

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• Cannot retrieve the Portege R100 by using the recovery CD

  I replaced the HARD drive on my R100 not having the original. Thank you to help on the forum, I managed to solve a CDROM with a PCMCIA connector.

  I got through the recovery screen and choose option 1 - retrieve the entire disk. He got a disc of part way through 1 when he did not play a file. I then ran it again, but the selected option 2 - Toshiba Recovery utility and it started and then failed with the error - "cannot open TOSH_REC. COMMITTED AN ERROR."

  Where else?

  Thank you

  Ian

  Hello

  Have you replaced it with all new HARD drive? It's very strange question and if the HARD drive is nine something like that shouldn't happen. You have the FDD to check the HDD with FDISC? Please use the floppy drive and boot the disk to check the new HARD drive.

  Somehow, I feel that there is something wrong with this new HARD drive.

• Portege R100 - recovery CD lost

  Hi... There's a year ago, I had installed a vista transformation pack on my portege r100, but when I uninstalled it, I was still left with icons and displays pop-up ads and other stuff from the Pack... Also, I've lost some features like system restore lately... all this has added to my frustration and I need to reinstall windows XP pro again... But I lost the CD of toshiba recovery... I have a separate bootable XP installation CD although and want to install on my portege

  I have a few questions:
  1. I have an external USB CD RW/DVD Rom Combo from Toshiba. Do I need any other than a bootable XP Pro installation CD?
  2. can I use the serial number of the COA under my portege?
  3. can I use the recovery CD to my friend toshiba instead?

  I would appreciate any kind of help on your part, thank you.

  Post edited by: audguy

  Hello

  > 1. I have an external USB CD RW/DVD Rom Combo from Toshiba. Do I need something other than a bootable XP Pro installation CD?

  You usually have a compatible CD/DVD of PCMCIA drive in order to boot from a floppy disk for Win XP.
  But I met some people here in the forum who have tried to reinstall Win XP without using a CD/DVD drive.
  Check these discussions:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums//thread.jspa?MessageID=155632

  > 2. Can I use the serial number of the COA under my portege?
  I doubt that this serial number work in relationship with other Windows operating systems. This serial key belongs to the Win operating system on the recovery disk. It s version an OEM and cannot be used with the other Win XP.

  > 3. Can I use the recovery CD from Toshiba to my friend?
  You must use the recovery disk that was specially designed for the Portege R100. If your friend is the owner of the Portege R100 even then the recovery disk should work on your Portege R100.
  The point is that the recovery disc contains drivers, tools and other software that has been developed only for some notebook series. If you want to use the recovery disk that does not contain drivers for Portege R100 then you could damage it the hardware or an error...

  Greetings

• Portege R100 will not start up CD

  I have a r100 and has now no OS and worse still it used to boot from external cd please can someone advise me how can I reload windows xp and have my computer back

  Hello

  What external hard drive that you are using?
  I read in this forum of Toshiba that not all external drives are compatible.
  You need a support if you want to boot from the CD!

  You know the knowledge base of Toshiba?
  I studied at this page and found this article:

  Portege R100 taken care of recovery disks
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

• PORTEGE R100 CD-ROM recovery problem

  Hi, I had a few problems of recovery PORTEGE R100. My problem is that when I try to reinstall the system with the recovery of the boot disk CD, it does not recognize the CD. The CD-ROM is not a TOSHIBA product. Is there any solution for this?

  Hello

  It will be interesting to know if your external CD is a USB or PCMCIA device.

  You must make a Windows startup disk and add drivers for your CD-ROM BACK drive and then you should be able to recover the machine with this CD.

• How to get the CD from recovery for my Portege R100?

  Hello friend

  I have a problem here:
  can us or I somehow get a replacement recovery cd coz my uncle recovery cd is lost?
  My portege R100 unable connect to the Welcome screen the only thing is to reinstall using recovery cd coz, if I installed it using another cd (not the recovery cd) it always come BSOD:
  "* stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7978524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) he ' says that I have to check the virus problem is I can not connect to windows after the Welcome screen."

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can get the form from recovery CD Toshiba service partner in your country.

  Just FYI; the BSOD appears usually due to hardware malfunction or a serious software fault.

• Portege R100: question of recovery - disk partitioning error

  My old portege r100 doesn't quite work.
  I tried using the recovery CD product, but during the resumption of the process the following message apears:
  Drive partitioning error!

  What it means?
  What can I do to overcome?

  Thanks in advance

  Yannis

  Hello

  It seems that HDD might not be partitioned correctly.
  Perhaps the HARD drive is not ok?

  Check if the HARD drive is recognized and listed in the BIOS.
  If the HARD drive is not listed, then the HARD drive is dead and must be replaced.

  If the HARD disk is listed, then there might be a problem with the HARD drive partition table
  You could test the HARD drive by using a tool called Drive Fitness Test.

  You can also try to format the HARD drive first. You could fix this HARD drive on another computer by using a USB HDD controller. This allows you to access the HARD disk and format this drive

• Portege R100, PXE - boot problem - E61:Media Test failure, check cable

  My portege r100 4004GAH original hard drive has had some problems recently, so I decided to replace it with a bigger 4006GAH. Specifications, it seemed that it would be appropriate.

  So I tried to install standard windows top. Unfortunately as I soon discovered that didn't work and lead to BSOD. I looked online and remembered that I had in fact to use the recovery of three discs. Fortunately for me I still had the freshly sealed and I've also owned a combined remarkable Targus CD drive supported. If in the three discs are gone. All seemed well and after that the last drive ended, I was asked to remove the disc. The laptop has rebooted and then gave me the

  PXE - E61:Media Test failure, check cable
  PXE - M0F: Exit Intel PXE ROM
  Insert system disk
  Press a key to continue...

  I thought it might be in the order of start, but verified that and it seemed right. HD was first. I also changed the order and the same error came.
  I thought while another component of my laptop may be broken. So I put my old hard drive in. It started fine.
  The next thought that the new hard drive was defective.

  Fortunately, this is not the case. Because when I used the recovery disks not only heard disk hard turns to the top, but the hard drives were detected and recovery installation displays the correct memory size.

  I'm completely stumped on hat w what is the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

  It is not easy to say what the problem is but you said the Portege started fine with the old HDD. So I think that there is something wrong with the new.

  In your case I test the HARD drive with a special tool like Drive Fitness Test. Download the CD image, burn it to a CD and boot from it. Then you can test the HARD drive.
  On the same site is a user's guide if you want to know more.
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT

  In addition I am interested in what you have the same problem with a Microsoft installation disc if you have one.
  So try if your HARD disk has no errors.

• How to install the OS on Portege R100?

  I have a Portege R100 by the usual means. It has been formatted so it doesn t have something about that. I read there are three ways to install an operating system. PC with USB CD-rom card, I tried without success since the pc card is a 32-bit card.

  I ve tried to locate some computer dealers but they've all sent me away. Where can I buy (live in Trondheim, Norway) good CD with the specific pc card that would make me start the CD of Windows XP Home edition? Apparently Toshiba doesn't have a webshop with accessories. Is there another way to install Windows XP Home edition?
  Can I boot from a USB pin if I copy the CD of Windows XP Home edition for that?

  IM desperate please answer :)

  Lars cordially

  Hello, Lars

  If you want to use the original recovery media in this case, you must use external Toshiba card PC CD/DVD. The recovery image contains disk driver and because of this, the reader will be recognized correctly and start procedure will work automatically.

  If you want to use the own external device, you must use BACK pilot to first use and after use of the drive. On this forum, one user recommended to copy the contents of the full version of Microsoft on the second partition CD and after that start the installation from there.

  I didn t try so far and cannot give you more specific information how to proceed.

  Bye and good luck!

• Portege R100: No restore CD - is WinXP installation possible?

  Hello!

  I had recently a well used old Portege R100 with a Toshiba PCMCIA CD that comes with it. He unfortunately did not come with the recovery CD and the hard drive has been formatted to him!

  I tried to install WinXP Pro many times now come to the conclusion, sad every time - the computer starts successfully in Windows Setup, but after finishing to load all the files needed it crashes with a Stop (0x0000007B) error. After some research I realize it is because the default XP install disk not having not sufficient not all drivers for the R100 hardware found on the Toshiba Recovery CD.

  Does anyone know if it is possible to install from a standard Microsoft XP disk or is it the only way to use the Toshiba recovery disks?

  Or even the creation of my own recovery CD by adding the necessary drivers for a standard XP disk?

  Thank you very much!

  Marko

  Hello Marko

  As far as I know the image of recovery for this unit contains the driver for the outdoor unit and installation with recovery media is very easy. I didn t try to install Microsoft WXP but if your device has a drive HARD with two partitions try to copy the CD of Windows XP Home edition on the second partition and start the installation from there.

• Various installation with the Portege R100 and Windows XP issues

  Hello

  I recently bought a used Portege R100. It came without OS and I wanted to install XP SP2.

  I know that restorations only work with PCMCIA readers adapted, but the HARD drive is formatted, so there is no recovery possible I guess.
  Here are my problems:
  -with my very old Freecom PCMCIA CD player the Windows installation CD is recognized, and it starts to load the XP drivers until he wants to start copying files installiation--> then I get the blue screen of Windows with the error 00 x 7 (virus or driver)
  -the same thing happens with my former W2k Pro installation disc.
  -With the even more ancient W98SE, strange things are happening too: installation seems to work fine, but when it comes to start with W98SE, for the first time, the system hangs up with pixelgarbage.
  -Make the 6 Bootdisks with makeboot doesn't work anymore.
  -J' also tried MS-DOS! And guess what! It worked! Loading the Freecom drivers and copy of Windows I386 folder on my hard drive with the volkov Commander (something similar to NortonCommander) worked too! So I got hav files on my drive but after running Windows NT in the i386 folder, the system hangs after some time, when it starts to copy the files to a temporary folder.

  So I tried almost everything I know. at this moment I am download knoppix to try it.

  I ran Memtest86 and 9 Diskmanager to test the RAM and HARD drive, finished two withut errors, so the priority of main parts in the installation process seems to work. Maybe it's that my IDE controller is broken?
  I have no idea, WHY does he not move windows!

  Help is hot!

  Thank you

  Christian
  Does

  It should work out that way, run you own your HD first in Fat32format - file-system, otherwise it won't work!
  Don't forget to use "smartdrive' in your BACK-commissioning, otherwise it will take a lot of time, even the 'freeze' is possible.

  See also: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232

• Optical USB mouse problem with Portege R100 on windows XP

  We have three laptops Toshiba Portege R100 currently giving problems with mouse optical usb from Toshiba.

  When starting the laptop, that the mouse is not recognized by windows. Before and after will be identified in the mouse will not respond while Burns led.

  The mouse will be recognized after re - plug in the USB port.

  We have updated versions of bios to the latest version. (1.4)

  Another mouse (USB optical) works OK without problem.

  We have removed the drivers and reinstalled by windows plug-and-play process, but it does not work.

  Is this a known issue?

  Thanks in advance

  Hello
  would it be possible that the USB mouse has high power consumption?

  As far as I know, there are a load of maximum intensity for each USB Port.

  Do you know how much power (intensity) needs to this mouse?

  Good bye

• Configuration and closing the new disk for Portege R100

  I just set up a new 40 GB HDD in my Portege r100. I think I need to format the disk before that it will work. How to do this please? I downloaded and installed the latest version of the bios

  Hello

  If the HARD drive is already detected in Windows Explorer, right-click on it and select format. If this isn't the case, you can use programs like Partition Magic or even your recovery CD to do a first formatting. If you use the recovery CD, the OS will install again, so you have to format the HARD drive again with Explorer.

  Good bye

• Portege R100: Can't see dvd external drive

  I just installed a new internal 40 GB hard drive in my portege r100, I partitioned the drive and formatted. I also installed the latest version of the bios (I think it is 1.6) but I can not now install XP to dvd because the portege r100 do not see the dvd drive external usb which I think is a LITE-ON 8 x

  Any suggestions?

  Using the supplied with the machine recovery CD? Also the machine will only start on a TOSHIBA USB dvd player. If it is not made by Toshiba, you will not be able to boot from it. Sorry

• Portege R100 does not start

  Can someone help me please. My Portege R100 does not start, when I turn the following text appears: in touch with tomorrow toshiba. After a few seconds a black screen with a blinking cursor on the left side of the screen.

  Thank you very much

  Hi Rehana,

  The Toshiba screen you will see first is the initial start screen is displayed while loading the BIOS. Once the BIOS has completed its process of loading, the system tries to boot the operating system and it is at this point that you have found the black screen with the blinking cursor in the upper left.

  Unfortunately, this indicates usually that the laptop can not load the operating system from the hard drive, or because the hard disk itself has not the contents have been damaged somehow.

  You might try to charge your laptop in 'safe' mode (press F8 during the initial loading of the BIOS) or you can try to boot your laptop from a bootable CD/DVD and hard drive.

  Finally, you can try to re - install your OS from the recovery CD.

  Kind regards