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Identical recovery problems with two different P205's

post #1 of 2
8/13/08 at 11:30am
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Hi Everyone,

I have run into identical problems with two almost identical machines. One is a P205-S6267 and the other is a P205-S6327. Both have had new hard drives installed.

When running the recovery on them, I get the same error message. The window is titled COPY FILE and says:

'Cannot read from the source file or disk.
PREINST3.SWM
Type: SWM file
Size: 624MB
Date modified: 3/1/2007 2:30 AM
Try Again Skip Cancel.'

I have tried different combinations of recovery disks from one machine to the next with no luck. I have run fdisk and formatted both drives manually and that had no effect. I have done some searching online but could not find any resolutions.

If anyone has any information, it will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for the time.

GeoGoGo
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post #2 of 2
8/14/08 at 10:58pm
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I did some additional searching and found a fix (well, work around). As advised, I made a copy of disk one of the recovery set. I started the recovery with the burned disk and it runs as normal.

Both systems performed identically; running the restore off the copy and switching to the original disk two. I just thought I'd pass this info along. Thank for the time guys.

GeoGoGo
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