wtb cf-28 cd drive caddy HELP! BSOD!

I have the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death and only a usb cd drive for my cf-28.
I have been unsuccessful at getting it to boot and use the win xp pro disk to fix my situation, I have the floppy drive and have heard you can find programs to use the floppy to boot the usb cd, but have been unable to find these so far.
any help would be much appreciated.

 

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You will need another computer to build the boot disk and a cd copy of windows xp to create the boot floppy.

Keep fighting the good fight!

 

thanks, tucker100, but no joy still, that worked in as far as it booted to the floppy, but then could not identify my usb cd drive. Nor did it see my hard drive, which is odd. I have bought a cd drive with caddy on e-bay last night, and am confident that will solve it, just trying to do what I can.
if I try to start in recovery, it says "cannot find ntldr" so may have other issues, from what I have read, booting from cd may be able to recover this.
worse case, i will reinstall winbloze, or possibly linux, never tried that yet.

 

Once you get the Panasonic CD/DVD drive and put it in the MP pocket you will be fine. CF-28s do not nativily boot from the USB port and some have had success and some have not.

 

ntldr is the NT Loader file used to start windows on your machine. Most likely what has happened is the machine you created the boot disk from was too far different than your laptop. Sometimes you can just copy the ntldr from another machine onto the boot disk and it will work just fine, sometimes not. Stick with your patience on waiting for your MBCDROM and that should work just fine. Im a little concerned though that it didn't see a HD; hopefully with the MBCDROM this won't be an issue. Keep us informed...

 

it boots normally and sees the hard drive fine windows splash screen with progress catipillar running back n forth ... till it reaches a certain point in the boot process and kicks me to the bluescreen. I had a google redirect virus and installed adaware to git rid of that, seemed fine for a couple days, then poof!

waiting...I hate waiting....good time to look over wife's TB...hate the rubber keyboard btw keeps dropping letters if you don't hit them just right.

 

Ouch, yep, a xp repair should held you out there, although I'm with doobi, I wonder why you can't see the hard drive, a really simple thing to check if you are using say, a mk1 hdd caddy in something other in a mk1 the caddy is thinner than the others and a decent drop onto a table or something will disconnect it from the mobo and you need to reconnect it.

 

not the case here, have taken out, disassembled, reassembled the hard drive caddy, admired engineering and simplicity of design (marshmallow foam, who'da thunk it?) opened the case to, umm access basic input output stuff. (understand proprietary issues) which led me to wonder how many times the average TB owner takes his/her TB apart in the first year, which I suspect is where most mods, fixes, & customizing takes place?

 

For those who are familiar with the unit I say 2-3 times but for noob maybe 10.5 times or maybe more, then you'll become an expert. Lol



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Finally got it back in operation, the cd drive works great, was just the ticket.
Had a nasty virus that got by AVG, had to download Malwarebytes to get rid of it. (was hiding in my registry) I highly recommend the program, seemed to work well, now on to modding my cf-28. Am thinking 7200 rpm drive, big as I can afford, new wifi (have stock one currently) and GPS with super duper active antenna. All thanks to late night browsing many pages of what people have already done. Thank you to all who have offered help and advice while I was trying to get my TB back from the dead.