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    Need help with booting a Toshiba Portege !!

    The problem is my m8 Portege R100 somehow got screwed up, it's missing some system files so explorer cannot start. Without explorer i cant replace the missing stuff so i though no big deal, just boot Knoppix from an external dvd-rom and fix it. But the lappy wont recognise the USB dvd-rom, and i dont have an external floppy either. After a bit of research it seems the Portege R100 is quite dodgy at USB support, but some people did manage to boot from an external drive (according to Google at least). So any suggestion of what can i do, is there a way to boot from USB devices ?

    P.S. I'm sure the boot priority is correct. It's CD->FDD->LAN->HDD
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    If it isn't listed in the bios, generally no Does the portege have an 'internal' bay for a CD drive? as i'm suprised CD is listed if it doesn't. Is that not an option?

    Can you see if it will recognise a USB mem stick? may get the files over that way, though my answer at work in this instance would be to take the HD out and plug it into a convertor and piggy back it on a regular PC's IDE channel to get data on/off it, or into a USB caddy, anything like that. 10 mins, jobs done.

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    if internal cd isnt there, you need a certain sort of external cd drive - it might be usb - my old portege had built in drivers for a range of pcmcia cd/dvd drives which was handy...

    otherwise, buy a hdd adapter, whip it out and stick it in your main pc
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    Maplin sell cables but they're a bit pricey (£4.99): http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=28724

    Could probably find the adapter itself cheaper elsewhere though.

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    Have you got the toshiba recovery discs.

    With my portege (diff model tho) if you hold down c while switching on it will boot from the cdrom, i've only ever done this from the tosh discs themselves but it might boot any CD.

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