Portege R100 - recovery CD lost

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• Portege R100 recovery

  (Stupidly), I installed Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 and tried to format my second partition to NTFS instead of fat. He said he did not have access to the partition and would therefore be to format at startup.

  I reboot and it comes up with Paragon Boot Manager asking an A: floppy drive

  I tried the bios and I can't seem to leave this screen and start windows.

  I do not have a USB/PCIMIA from Toshiba DVD player, but I do not have a non-Toshiba which does not start the R100 of. I also ordered an external floppy drive, but it has not yet arrived.

  I have read that it does not start from other USB devices to a Toshiba DVD drive or a floppy drive.

  My plan is to get the floppy drive and using a method similar to this:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232
  boot from my DVD from Toshiba drive not uses the drivers on the floppy disk, and then reinstall windows

  Or buy a Converter 3.5 to 1.8, disconnect the drive system on my PC, connect the HARD R100 disc, install windows using this material, then replace the HARD drive in the R100.

  * Do I have other options? I prefer to keep my current install.*

  The reason why I was trying to format the HARD drive to NTFS partition has been a) extract a greater than 4 GB image file in order to install some hardware (it wouldn't fit on the other partition) and b) to try to merge the second partition with the primary (System) partition. If there is a way to recover the R100 without reinstalling windows, I always want it. If I reinstall windows, I'll just use the formatting on the XP installation disk tool to create a new single partition.

  This was possible?
  If he have messed up my MBR?
  If it's possible and it would not have messed up the MBR, how should I go about this?

  A friend of mine has successfully used a non-Toshiba floppy drive with his laptop Satellite. If you can get one, you can try to use it.

  I don't have any experience with this model of laptop, but you can try to use the startup disk and create two partitions on the HARD disk. Copy the I386 folder on the second partition and start installing the OS from there.

• Portege R100 install XP on the replacement drive

  Help, please

  My hard drive in my R100 went bad and I replaced it and it became a nightmare to install XP.

  I spent 2 days on this subject, and I can't break! I have the original Toshiba USB floppy drive that can be accessed by cell phone and a desktop USB external CD/DVD drive mounted in a USB chassis. It's the Sony DRU - 540A. I tried everything on this forum and it does not work.

  I copied the I386 folder in the C: / once I'd fdisk and formatted it and when windows was running from the CD it came to try to find the asms file. When I run the Portege R100 Recovery Bootdisk V1.1.zip he can see my Cd/DVD drive however the virtual D: it creates, causing the PC to freeze when I run Windows NT.

  Please help because it's pretty darn painful!

  Thanks Brendan

  Why would you copy the files from the CD to your HARD drive? To install an operating system, in your case Windows XP just boot from the CD and follow the instructions given by the installation routine.

  You can change the priority of booting into the BIOS settings, or by pressing the C key laptop start upward.

• How to get the CD from recovery for my Portege R100?

  Hello friend

  I have a problem here:
  can us or I somehow get a replacement recovery cd coz my uncle recovery cd is lost?
  My portege R100 unable connect to the Welcome screen the only thing is to reinstall using recovery cd coz, if I installed it using another cd (not the recovery cd) it always come BSOD:
  "* stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7978524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) he ' says that I have to check the virus problem is I can not connect to windows after the Welcome screen."

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can get the form from recovery CD Toshiba service partner in your country.

  Just FYI; the BSOD appears usually due to hardware malfunction or a serious software fault.

• PORTEGE R100 CD-ROM recovery problem

  Hi, I had a few problems of recovery PORTEGE R100. My problem is that when I try to reinstall the system with the recovery of the boot disk CD, it does not recognize the CD. The CD-ROM is not a TOSHIBA product. Is there any solution for this?

  Hello

  It will be interesting to know if your external CD is a USB or PCMCIA device.

  You must make a Windows startup disk and add drivers for your CD-ROM BACK drive and then you should be able to recover the machine with this CD.

• Portege R100 - burn my own recovery CD

  Hello
  I tried to reinstall Windows on my Portege R100 for weeks and finally discovered

  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

  It is said that if you have a CD player of UBS by Toshiba or something equivalent and appropriate recovery CD, you can boot from the recovery CD to reinstall Windows.
  But I have the recovery CD is not that one "appropriate". In this case, the above document suggests to download the bootimage for floppy drive, then

  "you can make your own CD for recovery bootable directly with this bootimage, if extract you it and use as (1, 44MB) floppy emulation in your Favorites, engraving software and combine it with data from the original CD."

  Can someone explain what this means? Once you unzip the bootimage file attached to the document, you will get a .exe file, which, when you click on, trying to put a bootable diskette. How can I use this .exe file to create a bootable CD?
  Thanks in advance.

  MJ

  Hello

  On this Toshiba document described how you can preinstall your Portege R100 using original recovery (already delivered) media. As you can see you can use Toshiba external drives listed there and on this installation path is very easy because the designed Toshiba recovery image already contains the necessary driver for Toshiba external drives.

  If you n t have Toshiba drives but start other USB drives, you can retrieve the device using Toshiba drive.

  There is nothing on your recovery media burning on this document. As far as I know, you can do so by using some applications like Norton Ghost (I use it) and if you have an external hard drive. Application of Norton Ghost to make the recovery image on the HARD drive directly (I prefer this option and save the image on the D partition) or burn it to CD/DVD bootable.

• Portege R100: question of recovery - disk partitioning error

  My old portege r100 doesn't quite work.
  I tried using the recovery CD product, but during the resumption of the process the following message apears:
  Drive partitioning error!

  What it means?
  What can I do to overcome?

  Thanks in advance

  Yannis

  Hello

  It seems that HDD might not be partitioned correctly.
  Perhaps the HARD drive is not ok?

  Check if the HARD drive is recognized and listed in the BIOS.
  If the HARD drive is not listed, then the HARD drive is dead and must be replaced.

  If the HARD disk is listed, then there might be a problem with the HARD drive partition table
  You could test the HARD drive by using a tool called Drive Fitness Test.

  You can also try to format the HARD drive first. You could fix this HARD drive on another computer by using a USB HDD controller. This allows you to access the HARD disk and format this drive

• Configuration and closing the new disk for Portege R100

  I just set up a new 40 GB HDD in my Portege r100. I think I need to format the disk before that it will work. How to do this please? I downloaded and installed the latest version of the bios

  Hello

  If the HARD drive is already detected in Windows Explorer, right-click on it and select format. If this isn't the case, you can use programs like Partition Magic or even your recovery CD to do a first formatting. If you use the recovery CD, the OS will install again, so you have to format the HARD drive again with Explorer.

  Good bye

• Portege R100: Can't see dvd external drive

  I just installed a new internal 40 GB hard drive in my portege r100, I partitioned the drive and formatted. I also installed the latest version of the bios (I think it is 1.6) but I can not now install XP to dvd because the portege r100 do not see the dvd drive external usb which I think is a LITE-ON 8 x

  Any suggestions?

  Using the supplied with the machine recovery CD? Also the machine will only start on a TOSHIBA USB dvd player. If it is not made by Toshiba, you will not be able to boot from it. Sorry

• How to install the OS on Portege R100?

  I have a Portege R100 by the usual means. It has been formatted so it doesn t have something about that. I read there are three ways to install an operating system. PC with USB CD-rom card, I tried without success since the pc card is a 32-bit card.

  I ve tried to locate some computer dealers but they've all sent me away. Where can I buy (live in Trondheim, Norway) good CD with the specific pc card that would make me start the CD of Windows XP Home edition? Apparently Toshiba doesn't have a webshop with accessories. Is there another way to install Windows XP Home edition?
  Can I boot from a USB pin if I copy the CD of Windows XP Home edition for that?

  IM desperate please answer :)

  Lars cordially

  Hello, Lars

  If you want to use the original recovery media in this case, you must use external Toshiba card PC CD/DVD. The recovery image contains disk driver and because of this, the reader will be recognized correctly and start procedure will work automatically.

  If you want to use the own external device, you must use BACK pilot to first use and after use of the drive. On this forum, one user recommended to copy the contents of the full version of Microsoft on the second partition CD and after that start the installation from there.

  I didn t try so far and cannot give you more specific information how to proceed.

  Bye and good luck!

• Portege R100: No restore CD - is WinXP installation possible?

  Hello!

  I had recently a well used old Portege R100 with a Toshiba PCMCIA CD that comes with it. He unfortunately did not come with the recovery CD and the hard drive has been formatted to him!

  I tried to install WinXP Pro many times now come to the conclusion, sad every time - the computer starts successfully in Windows Setup, but after finishing to load all the files needed it crashes with a Stop (0x0000007B) error. After some research I realize it is because the default XP install disk not having not sufficient not all drivers for the R100 hardware found on the Toshiba Recovery CD.

  Does anyone know if it is possible to install from a standard Microsoft XP disk or is it the only way to use the Toshiba recovery disks?

  Or even the creation of my own recovery CD by adding the necessary drivers for a standard XP disk?

  Thank you very much!

  Marko

  Hello Marko

  As far as I know the image of recovery for this unit contains the driver for the outdoor unit and installation with recovery media is very easy. I didn t try to install Microsoft WXP but if your device has a drive HARD with two partitions try to copy the CD of Windows XP Home edition on the second partition and start the installation from there.

• Portege R100 does not start

  Can someone help me please. My Portege R100 does not start, when I turn the following text appears: in touch with tomorrow toshiba. After a few seconds a black screen with a blinking cursor on the left side of the screen.

  Thank you very much

  Hi Rehana,

  The Toshiba screen you will see first is the initial start screen is displayed while loading the BIOS. Once the BIOS has completed its process of loading, the system tries to boot the operating system and it is at this point that you have found the black screen with the blinking cursor in the upper left.

  Unfortunately, this indicates usually that the laptop can not load the operating system from the hard drive, or because the hard disk itself has not the contents have been damaged somehow.

  You might try to charge your laptop in 'safe' mode (press F8 during the initial loading of the BIOS) or you can try to boot your laptop from a bootable CD/DVD and hard drive.

  Finally, you can try to re - install your OS from the recovery CD.

  Kind regards

• Portege R100, PXE - boot problem - E61:Media Test failure, check cable

  My portege r100 4004GAH original hard drive has had some problems recently, so I decided to replace it with a bigger 4006GAH. Specifications, it seemed that it would be appropriate.

  So I tried to install standard windows top. Unfortunately as I soon discovered that didn't work and lead to BSOD. I looked online and remembered that I had in fact to use the recovery of three discs. Fortunately for me I still had the freshly sealed and I've also owned a combined remarkable Targus CD drive supported. If in the three discs are gone. All seemed well and after that the last drive ended, I was asked to remove the disc. The laptop has rebooted and then gave me the

  PXE - E61:Media Test failure, check cable
  PXE - M0F: Exit Intel PXE ROM
  Insert system disk
  Press a key to continue...

  I thought it might be in the order of start, but verified that and it seemed right. HD was first. I also changed the order and the same error came.
  I thought while another component of my laptop may be broken. So I put my old hard drive in. It started fine.
  The next thought that the new hard drive was defective.

  Fortunately, this is not the case. Because when I used the recovery disks not only heard disk hard turns to the top, but the hard drives were detected and recovery installation displays the correct memory size.

  I'm completely stumped on hat w what is the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

  It is not easy to say what the problem is but you said the Portege started fine with the old HDD. So I think that there is something wrong with the new.

  In your case I test the HARD drive with a special tool like Drive Fitness Test. Download the CD image, burn it to a CD and boot from it. Then you can test the HARD drive.
  On the same site is a user's guide if you want to know more.
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT

  In addition I am interested in what you have the same problem with a Microsoft installation disc if you have one.
  So try if your HARD disk has no errors.

• Portege R100 - how to install after Exchange of HARD drive?

  Hello world
  I'm new to this forum and I want to know exactly where I'm wrong. I have this portege r100 laptop and the hard drive gave a few days ago. Because I am a novice when it comes to computers, I left the laptop with an engineer, that I found on Kijiji.
  Unfortunately, the engineer could not load any operating system on it. I go through this forum and loads found useful answers, but alas, still the same problem.
  Could someone guide me in the right direction. I would be really grateful that I have exams coming next week and really need the laptop.

  I don't have any CD-ROM compatiable only an external floppy drive.
  I tried to install using the windows startup disk (x 6 downloaded from the microsoft Web site), but after the 6 disc it asks me 3 options.

  1. press ENTER to install
  2. recovery console option of
  Output 3.F3

  When I press on enter is not superimposed my cd rom which I figured out is not compatiable. If I leave the connected cd rom it says unmountable boot disk. It gives me a bsod. Is there another way, I could install the operating system using only the FDD.
  I'd appreciate it really all the help of the experienced members of this forum.
  Thank you.

  First of all, you can not use any external CD/DVD drive... you must use a compatible and recommended by Toshiba.

  Secondly, I you could try to connect the HARD drive to another computer using the USB caddy.
  Then copy the i386 to the HARD disk folder.
  Then, you can run the winnt.exe file to start the Setup program.

  Once configuration is complete plug the HDD to the Portege and tries to start
  It is only theory, but maybe it won't work

• Portege R100 will not start up CD

  I have a r100 and has now no OS and worse still it used to boot from external cd please can someone advise me how can I reload windows xp and have my computer back

  Hello

  What external hard drive that you are using?
  I read in this forum of Toshiba that not all external drives are compatible.
  You need a support if you want to boot from the CD!

  You know the knowledge base of Toshiba?
  I studied at this page and found this article:

  Portege R100 taken care of recovery disks
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm