Help! Corrupt 4th Product recovery Disc 4 for T43

[davidaker]

Can someone please help me out. My HDD crashed and am in process of replacing it and using R&R Discs to restore system. Problem is that I had started R&R and when I got to the 4th product disc, a message says its corrupted. Now the system is only expecting the 4th disc. Somehow the first part of disc (through number 3) is in memory and no matter what I do, it always expects the 4th disc to be next. Is there an ISO of the 4th disc out there that I can burn and try to see if it completes the install routine?
Any advise appreciated.

[richk]

There are different sets. First, Intel (1xxx models) vs. ATi (2xxx). Then they often update the sets or add suplemental disks.

[rbena]

Can someone please help me out. My HDD crashed and am in process of replacing it and using R&R Discs to restore system.

Are you doing the R&R on your existing HDD or on a new one?

For clearing the 'hanging' R&R installation, simply reformat the HDD.

Then obtain a set of Product Recovery disks, which will allow you to restore your system, and also in the future should HDD problems occur. You should be able to obtain a set by advertizing for these in the Marketplace on the TP forum.

[davidaker]

It's a new HDD, I will get another set of Recovery Discs and try again.
Thanks

[AmarT43]

It's a new HDD, I will get another set of Recovery Discs and try again.
Thanks

I had the same problem, no matter what i did, it just got stuck on the 4th Cd.
Managed to get a complete copy of the disks used by the IBM service center, they were kind enough to let me make a copy, If you need an image of the complete recovery disk set of 8 cd's let me know and i can ftp it to you.