Equium L20: How to use the recovery CD if the CD/DVD drive is faulty?

Hello

I have an Equium L20 at the mo and unfortunately the CD/DVD drive is damaged and is no longer works (I can't even open the drawer), and I can't start up.

Of course, I can't start the recovery CD is if there is another solution? I tried to create a bootable USB but I can't make it work, whenever I ask the bios to run it it runs as if it is a hard drive and says "operating system not found '. I reached the end of my train of thought so any help would be much appreciated!

Thank you

Tom

Hi Tom

You want to use your laptop with defective CD/DVD drive all the time? Why you don't want to trade the player and all your problems will be gone. The drive cannot be expensive and I am sure that you can exchange it only.

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