Im trying to copy a recovery cd and tranfer it to a notebook

When you restore your system back to the new factory settings, it will wipe your hard drive clean and do a fresh install of the operating system with the original factory setting.

To start this process, unplug all extra devices from your computer

(printers, external hard drives, etc.) as these can interfere with the system restore.

Starting with Windows XP, most systems with issued a system recovery disk in case of any problems with the factory installation.

Check the documentation and disks that came with your computer to determine if you have one of these system disks.

If you do have a copy of this disk, place it in your CD/DVD drive and restart your computer.

If you do NOT have a copy of this disc, skip to step 3 for further instructions.

Once you restart your computer, a screen will appear with the words.

Press Any Key to Boot From CD. Once you press a key, a screen will come up containing instructions to format your hard drive and restore the original factory settings.

Follow the on-screen prompts to finish the installation.

Once the restore is complete, remove your Recovery CD from the disk drive so that your computer does not try to boot from the CD again.

Restart your computer to complete the restore.

3. If you do not have a System Restore disk, then your computer should have a recovery partition on your hard drive, separate from the main partition of the disk.

Unplug all external devices and restart your computer.

When the loading screen comes on with the Windows logo, press Alt+F10 together five times.

This will bring up the system restore menu.

Follow the on-screen prompts to restore your computer back to the factory settings

hope this helps

Dear Friend
Many times this error is caused when the computer is attempting to boot from a non-bootable floppy disk or CD-ROM. First verify that no floppy diskette or CD is in the computer, unless you are attempting to boot from a diskette.
If not then it seems that your windows boot file got corrupted. all you have to do is try using your notebooks recovery CD if you dont have a recovery CD then you have to use the windows installer CD
1 Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
2 When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
3 Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
4 Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter.
5 You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password.
6 Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter, which in this case is "e." This letter may be different on your computer.
copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

7 Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.

Thanks
Gagan Gupta
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im not an expert on laptops im into desktop mainly but some issue can be applied on both... did u try to use your recovery cd or dvd that came with it maybe its your windows that is damaged... or if u have a copy of windows try to install it freshly and see what happens from there... also if the recovery cd is an image of the Factory u will lose everything on the partition C: from what i know.

good luck

Go Into The Bios Change The Boot Status To Either Cd Or Usb Try To Boot up On That (Sounds like You Need a Copy Of operating System)What version need more Info !! Im here To Help Donald Deane MCSE,ASE,CPO

check the cd you are using for scratches, looks like a readom the cd error to me.
to solve:
copy cd using freeware program: imageburn,make an image of disk, burn it onto cd-r(your save-copy, legal)
try installing from copied version could work

else:
copy whole installation cd into sepearate folder and run installation from harddisk.

You don't need a recovery cd. You just need to remove the hard drive and insert it into an external drive caddy. Then it will become just like an external hard drive. You can browse the drive to copy over your new files and then use the drive for backing up your new files in the future.

Other way to restore ur notebook to factory default settings without recovery disks is

Acer: When you first turn on the laptop and see the Acer logo screen, hold the ALT key and press the F10 key (you need to do this before the Acer logo disappears).

U can make a new set of Recovery disk when ur OS is running u will see Acer Empowering Technology with e sign kindly select ERecovery in the options and then u can make full backup of ur OS thru it

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See How to Create/Use a Toshiba Recovery CD/DVD-ROM

and toshiba recovery cd - CD & Download Versions Available

Alternatively you can get a recovery cd contacting the retailer were you bought the computer, or contacting Toshiba.

Hello,

Here is a link with information on ordering recovery media. However, if you want to try to use the factory restore partition, go here.


If you haven't created the initial set of restore cd's you can try this. NOTE: This can only be done once.

Hope this helps. Please remember to rate this information.

Thanks

quickest is to copy all to CD let the computer do the rest