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Thank you so much, I won't get a chance to use my friend's computer until Monday and I will report back then, I really appreciate all the help.

Hi, sorry for any confusion. I Have three physical recovery cd's and nothing on the hard drive. I need to know the correct procedure to copy these recovery cd's correctly to dvd's or if necessary onto the hard drive. Thank you for your help.

Thank you dbminter, The three usb ports on the laptop haven't worked for a few years, again a common fault with this machine, I was using a pcmcia card with usb ports but this is not recognized and being a legacy free machine I cant change the bios. I tied to burn the first of three cd's using a cradle connecting the hard drive to a friends laptop and using the builder in imgburn but half way through it said it couldn't recognize a file, not sure but I think it was a cab file. If you could advise if it would be possible to burn all three cd's to the hard drive using a cradle and would this work and if so what is the correct way to transfer the recovery cd's using imburn, Thanks again.

I have formatted my Toshiba 5005-s504 laptop. The cd drive is only capable of reading dvd's and the three original Toshiba recovery discs are on cd's which the drive can't recognize. I need to transfer the recovery cd's to dvd's and have tried a few times unsuccessfully. This model had a common fault of the cd drive failing and only then able to read dvd's. This is also a legacy free machine where there is no option for bios settings, I'd be very grateful for any solution.