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    X205 won't Boot from CD/DVD

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by y2khardtop, Jan 2, 2008.

  1. y2khardtop

    y2khardtop Notebook Consultant

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    OK, so this was working last month, as I did several Restores before ultimately installing XP (again, booting from CD worked fine).

    Now, all of a sudden, I can't boot from a CD. I've moved the Cd drive to the top of the bios list, even disabling the hard drives, and it doesn't recognize my CD drive. My CD drive works fine in windows, but for some reason, it won't recognize my Cd drive upon boot.

    Anybody think of anything I'm missing, or is this a warranty issue?

    Thanks
     
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    y2khardtop Notebook Consultant

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    btw, I also tried holding down the "C" key while booting, as instructed with the recover CD's.

    I'm not trying to restore my system, but have some utilities that run from boot CD's.

    Thanks
     
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    sly m1530 owner!!!

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    clean it and try again
     
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    I've tried many bootable CD's...DBAN, Spinrite, UBCD, Ubuntu, and even the Toshiba restore CD's. It will not boot from them, but they work great once in Windows.

    I think I might have a flaky CD firmware, but I can't find a way to fix that.

    btw, I've cleaned and attempted to reboot all of them about 50 times.
     
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    Never mind, it was bad firmware. I did a firmware change, trying to get the HD-DVD working in XP, and appearantly it doesn't support boot functions. Found another TS-L802 firmware and got it working. The OEM toshiba firmware won't re-install, but this one is at least working.
     
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