My Portege 3505 laptop cannot go to Windows after fail in splitting partition by partition magic. I tried to boot from USB drive but it doesn’t recognize the USB. It happen the same with external Toshiba DVD Rom which connect to the laptop by a cardbus card. I tried to boot by a floppy disk, it was OK but didn’t recognize the USB or DVD ROM( I used a software of HP to boot from floppy disk and can use CDROM). Please help me to make my laptop recognize the USB or DVD ROM on DOS!!!
Not sure if you can see the USB drive or external DVD drive in DOS on this model, but you have to be able to boot from the external DVD drive.
In order to reinstall the operating system using the external DVD dive you have to follow these steps:
1. Connect the external DVD drive to the laptop through the PC card slot.
2. Open up the DVD drive and insert the recovery disc or a generic Windows XP disc.
3. Turn on the laptop and press F12 as soon as Toshiba logo appears on the screen. Select the DVD drive from the boot menu.
I don’t know why you want to see the external USB device or DVD drive in DOS, but if you are trying to recover personal data from the hard drive you can use the following methods.
1. Easy one. You can use external USB enclosure for laptop hard drives. Remove the hard drive from the laptop, install it into the enclosure, connect this enclosure to another computer via USB port. Access the hard drive through My Computer and backup the data.
2. Difficult one. Boot the laptop from Knoppix CD - live Linux CD with GUI interface. Connect an external hard drive or flash drive (has to be formatted with FAT32) to the laptop using the USB port, this device should be detected by Knoppix. Transfer all data from the laptop to the external drive. I believe before you can write to an external drive in Knoppix you have to set this drive to be writable.
October 28th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Thank you very much for reply!
October 30th, 2007 at 12:19 am
sorry i need to ask a question i didnt no where else to post this i need help bad some please
i made a big mistake i have a toshiba tecra a3 laptop i formated the hard drive before realising i didnt get a recovery cd with my laptop when i bought it
therefore i didnt create a recovery disk now im stuck i need a recovery disk and i dont no how to get one is there any way i can get one from someone or download one or something or is that illeagal??
I NEED HELP PLEASE
October 30th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Shaun,
You can call Toshiba and purchase the recovery disc from them. It shouldn’t be very expensive. One of my customer was able to get it for about $40.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 am
I’m having a problem similar to the original poster, I recently had to replace the internal DVD-RAM drive in my Toshiba Satellite M45 S355. I replaced it with an Optiarc drive (Model number: AD-7540A) that I got from a Sony external slim drive, but now I can’t boot from the internal drive. Is there anything I can do about this?
Thanks in advance,
Don