Hi there,
Can anyone help? I have a Panasonic CF-71 Toughbook which I bought secondhand. It works OK but some of the utilities that were on it as new have been lost. I'm trying to get a copy of the original restore disk(s) that came with it. I'm not sure if it's a Mk2 or Mk3 but it has a 300MHz Pentium 2, 64 MB RAM and about 6 GB HD space. Any help will be apreciated and I'm willing to pay for the copies. Thanks
Robert

Hi there Ive got 6 of these units and I am going to build a restore disk but I am missing the store partition on my 6 and haven't yet been able to find a program to put a patition there that will fake out the bios to beileve the original partition is still there. let me know I have all the drivers and utilities, also the latest bios flash utility

I have a problem with my CF 71 which needs the restore disk to fix it. It's a 266 P2 6Gb machine.
Any help would be much appreciated. TIA.

Hello,
I've been working with CF71's for several years and have yet to need a restore disk. You can easily find and use phdisk.exe to create a new hibernation partition. I think version 4 or something like that? I do suggest disabling Windoze APM however.
Panasonic has the touchpad, video, sound drivers available for the "different" versions of CF71's. There are several model CF71's and if the label is worn off the bottom it can be tricky finding what model you really have but everything I need is available.
It's tougher to install OS without a floppy cable but it can be done.

"It's tougher to install OS without a floppy cable but it can be done."
Can you point me in the direction of instructions and necessary software for doing so? I recently bought a used CF-71 from the county and the hard drive is wiped.
Thanks

My CF-71 boots from CD, but the easiest way to do an install on any laptop that is uncooperative is to slave the drive into a desktop, install, sysprep (if using 2K or XP) and reinstall the drive in the laptop.
BE CAREFUL with the expensive CF-71 hard drive cable and caddy assembly!

Even without a floppy, you should be able to reinstall an OS.
In the BIOS set the option to boot from cd, and you should be able to install from cd.

I just picked up one of these CF-71 Toughbooks and other than the battery needing replaced it seems ok hardware wise. My dilemma is that the machine was re imaged with win 2000 and I'm trying to reload WIN 98 which seems to proceed fine till I go to restart from the hard drive. I get a fatal exception 06 0007 0000000017 I think those are the right numbers. I've found this can be a memory issue. Does anyone know if there are memory blocks that should be disabled for some reason? Any help would be nice. Even if someone has a rescue disk they want to lend/sell me. Mike

Can anyone help me get a battery for my 71 toughbook