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.
You can buy HP/Compaq/Sony/Toshiba/Dell/Acer/IBM/Gateway/etc etc System Recovery CD or DVD (also called System Restore discs) from this website http://www.digitalmedia-labs.com They have almost all brands for laptop and desktop models and they ship right away. I bought for my computer and arrived extremely fast and my computer is in new condition now, everything runs like new. They also have free shipping and very nice Customer service. I had a great experience. Good luck!
Sounds great, but we Win 7 is still running happily on the laptop, so we'll stick to that. It's a good site to know of though, re-install of windows machines isn't that rare unfortunately.
Thanks.