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| Thread ID: 31493 | 2003-03-23 21:38:00 | recovery disc & external cdrom drive | sajanes (3434) | Press F1 |
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| 130365 | 2003-03-23 21:38:00 | I have inherited a Toshiba Satellite Laptop that was reformatted by its previous owner. I have a recovery disk, but the CD/DVD Drive in the laptop does not work. I plan to replace this but would like to reintall the operating system in the meantime for internet use etc. If I can get hold of an external drive how can I load the recovery disk from there? if so how do I get the computer recognise the new drive? Laptop is approx 2years old, running Me, 6Gig hard drive, 128 Mb RAM d Celeron processor (not sure of grunt). Would appreciate comments/help |
sajanes (3434) | ||
| 130366 | 2003-03-23 22:30:00 | cdrom normally is not bootable externally. they need to be internally. maybe u install dos parition HDD wif a bootdisk. install like a basic windows system from discs. then u copy that cd onto the 2nd partition. wipe c: use bootdisk to boot and run setup off D: not entirely sure if recovery CD it can be run without booting thou... alternatively u can use a normal windows cd copy to d: and run setup off the HDD. Rayonline |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 130367 | 2003-03-24 04:10:00 | If it is only two years old, wouldn't it still be under the Toshiba 3 year warranty? My 2year old second-hand Portege still has a year of warranty to run. Or did 3 year warranties only apply to certain models, in which case I got lucky. :8} Also, my (external) CD rom drive doesn't need drivers and relies on the OS. I wonder if you could boot with a floppy that provided CD access and run recovery from there with a borrowed CD-rom if yours is also external. Failing that could you boot with a floppy providing network access and run the recovery CD on another computer? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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