Thank you for uploading it 😀 I'll have to try it out on my 70CT

I wonder if there's any release notes saying which CD driver it has to use. This page says that these CD drives are supported: "EXP
Traveler, Trantor or BusToaster SCSI". Looking at a picture of the traveler, I've got a similar one in a different colour so I might have a go with my selection of PCMCIA CD drives to see which one works.

I think this might cover your problem too, you might need to edit the recovery disk? https://support.dynabook.com/support/viewCont … ontentId=108441

Great. Please let me know how it goes.

It was a while back I tried to use the disks, and I don't remember the drive model or details. I did follow, or tried to follow the instruction at that link.
The drive worked automatically in Windows 95, but I never got DOS to see it.

Could you possibly re-image the recovery floppy? It's missing the autoexec so I don't know how to initiate the recovery

Thermalwrong wrote on 2020-12-14, 01:10:

Could you possibly re-image the recovery floppy? It's missing the autoexec so I don't know how to initiate the recovery

Oh. Maybe that file was hidden or something.
I can make a proper image on one of my older PCs. What's a good program to use?

On my Windows 98 laptop that I use for imaging floppies, the one I used previously was rawwritewin

Ok. I imaged the two floppies I have. Looks like they're different versions of the same thing.
I've added then to the Internet Archive page:
https://archive.org/download/toshiba-libretto … 281-6-94%29.img
https://archive.org/download/toshiba-libretto … 289-3-97%29.img

Thanks for adding those 😀

I still couldn't make sense of it though or get it to detect the CD-rom in DOS, so I tried your other suggested method of just unzipping the files and doing the restore using a USB hard drive adapter. Which worked out great, just requires:

1. Install disk in libretto or another laptop (if you don't have the libretto's floppy drive)
2. Boot from Windows 95 boot disk and use FDISK to clear disk & create primary partition
3. Reboot and "format /s c:" to put Windows 95 dos onto the hard drive. Then reboot and check it boots correctly.
4. Connect disk to PC and copy in the contents from both extracted .zip files
5. Reinstall disk, boot into fresh Toshiba 50CT/70CT Windows 95
6. Enter OEM Windows key when prompted

It's a proper pre-load with all the Toshiba utilities, the libretto quick access bar and sound drivers etc

Awesome! Good work, and thank you for testing.
I wonder what it takes to get the CDROM loaded in DOS. Oh well.

I didn't know about that "format /s" trick. Hopefully these files and your instructions will get some Librettos running like new again.

Thank you! My 70CT running OEM Win 95 now!

steberg wrote on 2022-06-13, 18:44:

Thank you! My 70CT running OEM Win 95 now!

Great! Thanks for letting me know. I'm glad we could help.

Skidlz wrote on 2020-12-07, 14:39:

I managed to get the recovery disks for a Toshiba Libretto 70CT, and I uploaded them to the internet archive : https://archive.o […]
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I managed to get the recovery disks for a Toshiba Libretto 70CT, and I uploaded them to the internet archive : https://archive.org/details/toshiba-libretto- … ore-cd-contents
I just copied the files instead of messing with ISOs. I don't think they have fancy bootable sectors or anything, because you have to boot from floppy before using them.
I have a PCMCIA CD drive, but I can't get my Toshiba to read from it during the recovery process. I'd appreciate it if someone could test these files on their drive.

I found that there's a hard drive disk image (of sorts) in two encrypted ZIP files. I was able to run "John the Ripper" on them, and the passwords are included.
I suspect you can copy these to a drive, run fdisk /mbr, and boot it. There's probably more to it though.

Anyway, just wanted to get these files out there.

Sorry to necro this thread, but I’ve spent some time finding different methods of restoring with different drives that work without any adjustment. There were instructions from Dynabook’s website that tell you how to alter the files installed from the floppy so that it just loads your drive.

If you can get your hands on certain models of the EXP Traveler external CD-ROM drives, they tend to work even if they aren’t the 820. I’ve gotten it to work with a 2020 and another that was much later that was an 8x/4x/32x CD-RW. I even managed to locate and buy a Bus Toaster PC Card that will work with it from Noteworthy, but the ones you do find from New Media don’t seem to work or load.

I can’t find a Trantor that works yet. I’m still looking for one.

I did upload a successful recovery image to the archive project in a WinImage .IMA file that you can easily copy over to a bootable CF card or SD card if you don’t care about doing a traditional restore.