Home of Peter Haza » Hardware http://blog.peterhaza.no Opinions on most things Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:36:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Corrupt Toshiba recovery disc http://blog.peterhaza.no/corrupt-toshiba-recovery-disc/ http://blog.peterhaza.no/corrupt-toshiba-recovery-disc/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:59:24 +0000 Peter Haza http://blog.peterhaza.no/corrupt-toshiba-recovery-disc/ Yesterday I bought my girlfriend a used Toshiba A200 laptop. It was only a couple of months old, looked nice and shiny, and had no scratches. But when I was going to re-install the machine using the recovery discs from Toshiba, I couldn’t get past formatting the hdd.

The error that occured, in a console window, was:

Error : Could not open WIN file D:\05006XSP.swm!
ERROR : RecoWMAInfo.exe did not run poperly!

Long story short, I ended up installing the windows 7 beta. We had some experience with Vista since I own a copy, and we figured we might aswell try something that worked well, and wasn’t old(XP).

It worked amazingly well with the laptop. The only driver I had to get was the one for the built-in camera. Since Win7 uses the same driver model as Vista, the Vista driver from the Toshbiba support page worked very well.

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