I recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite Pro T110 loaded with Windows 7 Professional and was very surprised how fragile the system recovery process was:

1) There is no DVD media with Windows 7 recovery.
2) During the install process you MUST follow all standard options (no extra partitions) if you want to be able to use the recovery partition on the hard drive every again.
3) Using a third-party partition imaging solution to take a snapshot of the drive is a pointless exercise - you will probably not be able to recover it to a state where it can be used.

Personally, I feel that there needs to be a big red piece of paper (or even better, a set of recovery disks) in the box which says something like the following:

If you want to be able to recover the factory default state you MUST follow this process:
1) Install using standard options - DO NOT CREATE ANY ADDITIONAL PARTITIONS
2) Be prepared to wait hours for the system configuration process to complete properly
3) DO NOT connect a network connection during this process
4) Do not touch the keyboard or touch pad unless specifically directed to do so
5) Be prepared for the computer to go through numerous reboot cycles
6) Once complete, the FIRST thing you should do is get a USB DVD drive and use the utility program provided to create a set of recovery disks.
7) DO create a system repair disk - this may be a CD

During my installation process I created a D partition (to allow image backup), then managed to lock off the touchpad and then ended up with a totally dead machine after attempting a system recovery which came up with error F3-F100-0004. Thanks to help from Marcus at Toshiba, Brisbane I was able to obtain a set of recovery disks and get it up and running.

Hope this is of help to someone else and that Toshiba can improve the reliability and stability of the recovery process.