mj

I have sold my Tosh Portege 7220 and am trying to do a factory fresh install.

ok, recovery CD in PCMCIA cd drive, set puter to restart......

The instructions tell me to press "C" as the puter's power button is pressed - nothing happens , the CD doesent even spin up.

It seems that the PC does not recognise the CD Dive untill W2K has started, as windows finishes booting the CD spins up.

Any suggestions - I havne got a clue how to get into the Bios to see what the boot sequence is - tried delete- no joy, F8 brings up the windows boot menu, the nearest I can get is the F2 boot drive menu. selecting various options in this does not seems to make any difference, the feckin thing still boots normally.

Any ideas?

*Sonic*

Have you tried 'booting' the laptop

seriously tho, what I used to do on my old Tosh, was to power it on, and keep pressing loads of keys, till I got the error 'keyboard error' f1 to resume f2 for setup

Alternatively you should be able to use the tsetup.exe which should get you into the Bios (if they still use this method)

Cheers

Steve

Rob Walker

Can't you boot off a boot disk floppy with cd-rom support and install from there?

Buckrogers

To get into the BIOS of most tosh laptops, press "Esc" just after power on.

mj

cheers people,

tbh I did a quick google straight after posting and found the info on the esc key.

I'll try it later .

ta muchly.

mj

Right, this is getting on my **** now

I have got into the bios and selected the Boot sequence as CDROM,FDD,HDD.

It will still not boot from the PCMCIA drive with the recoverey disk, I can though get it to Boot from the W2K boot disks I have made ( waste of Time though , right at the death I get a message CD.Sys corrupt or something.)the floppys wre a bit old though.

I can't help but think there is a problem with the cd drive no being recognised until windows has loaded -



any suggestions?

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

I think you'll find that the PCMCIA CD-Rom drive is not bootable.

Although, have you tried pressing 'D' on bootup ?

Buckrogers

I dont think changing the boot sequence in the bios will have any effect on the PCMCIA cdrom drive.

Also, standard boot disks made by the Operating System are unlikely to contain DOS drivers needed for the PCMCIA cdrom.

You need a boot disk that contains the drivers for the pcmcia cdrom drive.

I would look and find something, but dont have the time right now.
Couple of links for you though:

http://www.bootdisk.com/

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/

Good luck!

Buckrogers

DJ Dunk (got it right this time! )

On Tosh laptops, its "C" to boot from cdrom.

mj

I have tried pressing c as the machine boots with no joy.

Buckrogers

I think pressing "c" will only work with in built cdrom.

Did u manage to get anything from those links?

mj

no such look, its all double japanese to me - I am googling as we speak.

cheers,

mike.

mj

sod it,

I let the pc boot up and then reinstalled from a normal 2k disk - miles easier - just putting in the drivers from the recoverey cd now.