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    P200-1EE Won't boot from CD/DVD

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by lesinlondon, Jan 14, 2008.

  1. lesinlondon

    lesinlondon Notebook Enthusiast

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    HI All, I posted this on the Toshiba site forums, with no reply as yet. I really need some help urgently with this. If anyone can help I'd be so grateful. Thanks!...........

    I am trying to boot from an Acronis True Image boot disc so I can install a previous saved True Image backup. I press F12 during boot but there is no CD/DVD drive listed.

    I have tried moving the CD drive to top in boot selection in F2, but it still won't boot from the drive.

    What can be wrong here? I tried a firmware update for the drive, but it's already up to date, so wouldn't install.

    Thanks for any help.

    Les
     
    lesinlondon, Jan 14, 2008
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    allan_huang Notebook Deity

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    Do you hear the disc spinning up?
    I think it might be broken unless you burned Acronis using the same DVD ROM
     
    allan_huang, Jan 14, 2008
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    lesinlondon Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi! No spinning up. The drive is listed in the bios, but not when F12 is selected. Strange. Well I burned an Acronis boot disc using the P200-1EE, but it doesn't work, rather the CD/DVD drive doesn't boot.

    I plugged an external hard drive in to USB which has the Acronis stuff on it. This is selectable in F12, but on booting displays a "missing operating system" message.
     
    lesinlondon, Jan 15, 2008
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    lesinlondon Notebook Enthusiast

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    sorry to be a pain, but can anyone help. I really need to get this put right. Thanks.
     
    lesinlondon, Jan 16, 2008
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