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WTBorrow: Internal CD drive for Toshiba Laptop Hari 07-31-2006
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Posted by Hari on July 31, 2006, 2:36 pm
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Hi, I am trying to reinstall windows on my toshiba 2805-s202 laptop, but
unfortunately the internal cd-rom drive will not read cds anymore. I do have
an external one, but there is no boot option in the bios for a usb device.
Therefore, I was wondering if anybody had an internal cd-rom drive that I
could borrow for use in my laptop for just a few hours for the purpose of
reinstalling windows. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you,
please contact hari@gatech.edu or call 6787702741.



Posted by Barry Watzman on July 31, 2006, 3:22 pm
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A better solution is to remove the hard drive from the laptop and
connect it to an IDE to USB adapter, then copy the I386 folder from the
CD to the hard drive (while the hard drive is connected to another
computer). Reinstall the hard drive in the 2805, reboot (possibly from
a floppy) and do the installation without needing the CD.


Hari wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to reinstall windows on my toshiba 2805-s202 laptop, but
> unfortunately the internal cd-rom drive will not read cds anymore. I do have
> an external one, but there is no boot option in the bios for a usb device.
> Therefore, I was wondering if anybody had an internal cd-rom drive that I
> could borrow for use in my laptop for just a few hours for the purpose of
> reinstalling windows. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you,
> please contact hari@gatech.edu or call 6787702741.
>
>

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