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    Problem with install OS on Toshiba Portege 2000

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by lesterix, Aug 31, 2004.

  1. lesterix

    lesterix Newbie

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    Anybody know which USB CD ROM drive is bootable on Toshiba Portege 2000 notebook computer. I would like to use my recovery disk for reinstall OS on my HD. Have PCMCIA card CD drive but wont work on formatted HD, tried use 6 floppy disk for instal windows XP,[ :(!] but after installation on 6th disk windows is shot down. Any help will be appreciate.
     
    lesterix, Aug 31, 2004
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  2. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    The PCMCIA CDROM's should work fine in your system. You just need a bootable floppy disk with the correct drivers on it for it to work. For these older units, I don't know if you can boot off a bootable XP disc. I think the way the Toshiba recovery CD's work, is that they boot off a floppy and then starts the rest of the restore on CD. I guess you can try something like that as well. Make a Win98 bootable floppy with the PCMCIA CD-Rom drivers setup properly. Bootup and then put the XP CD into the drive and run SETUP from the cd root, it should start the process, but the only issue is after the system restarts, it won't be able to find the CD-ROM anymore.

    One final thing you can try, copy all the XP files into a folder in the HDD, go through the same steps as above, but now when it can't find the CD, point it to the folder with the XP files on you HDD.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Sep 1, 2004
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  3. lesterix

    lesterix Newbie

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    Finally I found the right CD drive which is bootable on Toshiba Portege 2000 laptop, this drive is PORT Noteworthy Model# NW24xCD, I bought this drive on Ebay for $61 and successfully installed OS from Portege recovery disk, no more hassle, thanks Lord.[ :D]
     
    lesterix, Sep 21, 2004
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