External Cdrom boot

[dcleas]

My Problem-

I can not seem to find a way to boot my Toshiba Portege 3110CT off an
external CD-Rom drive. I have tryed every way i know of to get this
thing to boot but i have nothing to show for it. I do have both a
floppy and cdrom drive that are external. Does anyone have any idea on
a boot disk I can find online and or any information that can help me
with
this problem? Thanks.

Dee

 

[Newt Ownsquare]

1.What exactly have you tried?

2. What are you wanting to bootup from/to?

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Hope this helps,
Newt
Lat: 39° 59' 12" N, Long: 75° 24' 2" W


| My Problem-
|
| I can not seem to find a way to boot my Toshiba Portege 3110CT off an
| external CD-Rom drive. I have tryed every way i know of to get this
| thing to boot but i have nothing to show for it. I do have both a
| floppy and cdrom drive that are external. Does anyone have any idea on
| a boot disk I can find online and or any information that can help me
| with
| this problem? Thanks.
|
| Dee
|

 

[dcleas]

I have tried booting from Bootdisks I found on Bootdisk.com. 2000, 98
and 95. I am trying to get it to boot of a external cdrom but, I can
not find the right external cdrom drives that will work in dos.

 

[John John]

Can you not boot the laptop at all? Is there not a diskette or CD-ROM
on the laptop? What exactly are you trying to do? Booting a computer
is a BIOS function and unless the BIOS supports what you are trying to
do you'll get nowhere with this. How is the CDROM attached to the laptop?

John

 

[Newt Ownsquare]

It's still not clear what you're trying to do.

If the problem is that you cannot access either the floppy drive or the CD-ROM
drive during the startup sequence, check your user's manual for help with this.
It's probably a setting in the BIOS that needs configuration.

FWIW, if you use Windows 95/98 boot disks on an NT system, you can't see the
drive or its files (assuming it's formatted as NTFS). If you use the four
Windows 2000 setup disks, this will ask for the Win2K installation CD at the end
of its routine and is only meant as a workaround for computers that cannot
startup from the CD-ROM drive itself. In either case, you won't bootup an
existing installation, you'll only be able to repair a system at best.

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Hope this helps,
Newt
Lat: 39° 59' 12" N, Long: 75° 24' 2" W


| I have tried booting from Bootdisks I found on Bootdisk.com. 2000, 98
| and 95. I am trying to get it to boot of a external cdrom but, I can
| not find the right external cdrom drives that will work in dos.
|