Keith Browning Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Hopefully one of youze guyz has done this. I want to wipe our Toughbook clean and restore our Toughbook with the factory recovery disks - we have all 3. Now, I am pretty handy with a computer but disk one has no exe files or autorun function. I also don't see any utility in the Programs listed... I tried F2 and looking in the set up menu but I didn't see anything. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted May 12, 2009 Author Share Posted May 12, 2009 Figured it out... hit F2 when booting up and change the boot sequence to start with the USB CD ROM and it loads. Now I have a new problem. Disk 3 has a corrupt file which halts the install at 90% and shuts the computer down. NOW I am fucked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlep Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 And here I was gonna ask you for a copy of those recovery disks ....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastendpowerstroke Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I'll look to see if I have mine tomorow. If I do I'll let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Actually.... hit F8 in the boot screen (the one before the first "splash" screen) but you need to have the DVD reader hooked up with disc one in place. Do you want a "disc 3"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 I asked to take it home so I could concentrate on this. I also contacted Panasonic Support. My error code is #1082 - image file is invalid or corrupt" According to them the HDD is most likely on it's way out with some bad clusters. Makes sense - the PC copies the data from the disks then simultaneously runs the set up. If it reads data that was written on a bad cluster the installation fails. Unfortunately there is no system/hardware diagnostics built into the BIOS like an IBM computer has or at least mine did. I guess running the Windows disk check function before performing recovery would have been good advice. Not like bad clusters can be repaired though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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