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I have a Satellite 3005-S303 that came with WinME preinstalled and an
accompanying Recovery CD that worked on the one occasion I had to use
it. I subsequently installed the free update to WinXP Home.
Later the machine suffered a motherboard failure (replaced under
automatic free extended warranty thanks to Visa), but Windows has since
become so messed up that a normal "repair" does not work, so I intended
to start from scratch, reinstalling WinME from the Recovery CD, then
upgrading to XP and applying all the latest fixes. (Yes, I *could*
simply install XP from scratch, but I would lose the Toshiba-supplied
machine-specific add-ons, such as the on-screen volume control "bar
graph" and "Plus!")
The problem is that when I try to reinstall from the Recovery CD, I get
the "Wrong Machine!" messsage.
What is the Recovery CD looking for? A particular Volume Serial No. on
the disk? (I have repartitoned and reformatted the drive, so that will
have changed.) A particular BIOS revision? (I even tried going back from
ver. 2.40 to ver. 2.10, which came out just before my machine was built.
That didn't work either.)
Any ideas?
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MB
Whether you vote Democrat or Republican in November, the country will
still be run from boardrooms in the USA and elsewhere, not by your
elected representatives.
I have a Satellite 3005-S303 that came with WinME preinstalled and an
accompanying Recovery CD that worked on the one occasion I had to use
it. I subsequently installed the free update to WinXP Home.
Later the machine suffered a motherboard failure (replaced under
automatic free extended warranty thanks to Visa), but Windows has since
become so messed up that a normal "repair" does not work, so I intended
to start from scratch, reinstalling WinME from the Recovery CD, then
upgrading to XP and applying all the latest fixes. (Yes, I *could*
simply install XP from scratch, but I would lose the Toshiba-supplied
machine-specific add-ons, such as the on-screen volume control "bar
graph" and "Plus!")
The problem is that when I try to reinstall from the Recovery CD, I get
the "Wrong Machine!" messsage.
What is the Recovery CD looking for? A particular Volume Serial No. on
the disk? (I have repartitoned and reformatted the drive, so that will
have changed.) A particular BIOS revision? (I even tried going back from
ver. 2.40 to ver. 2.10, which came out just before my machine was built.
That didn't work either.)
Any ideas?
--
MB
Whether you vote Democrat or Republican in November, the country will
still be run from boardrooms in the USA and elsewhere, not by your
elected representatives.