Portege R100 USB2 CD-RW/DVD-Rom - Bootable?

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• Portege R100 - installation operating system 16-bit bootable CD-Rom PCMCIA

  Hi all

  I was wondering if one of you boffin can advice on a very frustrating problem I am experiencing.

  I'm trying to re - install the recovery CD on a Portege R100, so far without success.

  I have learned that I need (ed) a cdrom of 16-bit pcm bootable to do the job - after getting a 16 bit pcm [LG] bootable disk I found that seems not be recognized at startup, choose to boot from the pcm does nothing, it loads just of the HARD drive and I am at a loss on how to move forward.

  I talked to Toshiba and Freecom, both advising all 16-bit pcm bootable CD-ROM should do the trick, they confirm that they are no longer manufacturing or selling these devices and both suggest I source one of it like eBay... someone at - it ideas?

  Hello

  If you start Windows, the drive will be then recognized?
  Have you tried to change the boot priority in the BIOS?

  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

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  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

• Portege M400 Tablet product Recovery DVD-ROM

  Where can I get a set of recovery discs to DVD-ROM for my Portege M400 Tablet products please?

  Hello

  Usually, you can order the recovery disk using this page:
  https://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

  But this page provides a recovery only for the most recent disk series laptop.
  I'm not very well if you'll be able to order the recovery disk because of the age of the M400 m

  Anyway, the other possibility would be the ASP. You can contact your authorized service partner and could ask this disc

  In the worst case, you can use a clean Windows disc and Toshiba drivers are downloadable from the page of the driver.

• Portege R100: Problems with CD/DVD Lacie USB 2.0 drive

  Hello everyone, this is my first post here.
  I'll most likely be a regular here I come to buy a R100.

  I am having trouble with an external hard drive that I bought especially for the R100,
  It's a Lacie CD / DVD burner, model number: 300819EK.

  This unit can be powered by AC or by using the two usb ports.
  I use two usb ports.

  The R100 recognizes the Lacie, and in the Device Manager list, the drive is then
  in the list, but he is listed as a drive of Toshiba.
  I'm assuming that this disc of Toshiba external hard drive, you could buy for use
  with the R100.

  The Lacie drive works, but it seems preloaded the R100 CD / DVD
  pilots are contradictory in some way and is made using the player very touched and don't miss.
  He often gets 20% about a facility, then crashes.

  Is there a spare driver I can download that I can replace the toshiba
  drivers with?

  As if by having the Lacie 100% functional means there is obviously a
  How to overcome the problems.

  Hope you girls and guys can shed some light on this for me.
  Thank you.

  Hello, Larry

  You will be very happy if someone will be able to give you some explanations in this regard. I can tell you more: the fact is that this model is created and tested to work with Toshiba compatible external devices. Because of this, Toshiba built in all the necessary drivers in the operating system preinstalled. It should help the installation and also drive fast and quick recognition.

  This does not mean that you MUST use discs from Toshiba. Of course you can use what you want, but the only problem can be when you try to install the OS. Toshiba recovery image contains drivers for Toshiba drives and recovery procedure will work without any problem because the external sides will be immediately recognized.

  I recommend to visit the Lacie support page and check if you can find some driver it. Toshiba has nothing to do with it, if you use a third party product.

  Often, he gets 20% approximately of a plant then crashes sorry but I t did not understand what you mean with it and what you mean with 20%. Second part of your ad is very confusing and I really don t know what you mean.

  Good bye

• Portege 400: CD/DVD-ROM does not recognize the CD more

  Hello

  I have a portege 4000 with a CD/DVD-ROM SD-C2502 drive.
  It accepts allright DVD but can't read CD (both data and music) more. The error message indicates the data format is not supported by windows, or there is a formatting error. Things has been OK until I recently installed PowerDVD on my PC.
  I uninstalled PowerDVD, but nothing has changed. What can I do?

  see you soon
  Ernst

  Hello

  1, you can set the default BIOS with BIOS loading and the Home key settings!

  2, check if, www.toshiba-europe.com/storage, an update of the firmware of your player is available!
  And then try to do, maybe it will help!

  Otherwise, I think your drive is broken and the failure can only be fixed with a replacement!
  Sorry!

• 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.

• Can what external CD/DVD-Rom I use on Portege 3500

  Does anyone know what are the criteria for an external CD ROm for a Portege 3550? There are 3 units recommended in the forum that could restart the Toshiba Reinstall the Portege 3500 drives, 2 Targus and Toshiba 1.

  This seems very limited. In particular the 2793008 of Toshiba will do the job? No USB unit is recommended and it seems it takes a 16-bit interface - not a 32-bit.

  Can someone clarify please?

  Hello

  I don t think that it will be able to boot from USB key because the BIOS doesn t it supports.
  If you want to retrieve from the CardBus PCMCIA adapter you will need a special disc boot that allows the start of the PC 16-bit PCMCIA card.

  I found these drivers:
  Light Slimline CD-ROM 24 x, PX1052E-1NMD (16-bit PCCard)
  Slimline CD - RW 8 x / 8 x / 24 x CDRW, PX1054E-1NST (CardBus)
  Slimline DVD - ROM 8 x / 24 x, PX1053E-1NMD (CardBus)
  Slimline Combo, PX1055E-1NST (CardBus)

• Need of CD drive bootable compatible 16 bit for Portege R100

  Hi all.

  I have a protected R100 I need to run the recovery cd on.
  So far, I discovered that I need a CD bootable (usb not supported) 16-bit pcm.

  My problem/query is that I can't find anywhere to establish:

  (A) a device approved, favorite or compatible

  (B) the best place to do it.

  Would be very grateful for any info...

  Thanks in advance.

  Chris

  Hey dude

  I found something for you:
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

  It s a TSB Toshiba Portege R100 on sustained recovery disks.

  I hope I could help ;)

• How can I get a DVD ROM for Portege My drive

  I bought an external DVD Rom type Toshiba PA3246E and Realplayer says that I need the native driver for topay DVD movies. Anyone know where/what should I download.

  V

  Hello

  I hope that your player works properly with all the media you are using. This native driver is obviously not Toshiba stuff and Google all over the place and pick up some information about this.

  Sorry, but I didn t understand what DVD movies you want to watch.

  Good bye

• Re: Portege R100 - unable to boot from the CD USB player

  Hi all

  I use Portege R100.
  I am not able to boot from usb cd player and the cd player does also not xp, but all other usb devices work fine and cd usb player everything works fine on the other system.

  Can someone help me
  Thanks in advance

  Goutam

  > Thanks, but how do I boot from a cd rom usb drive? I don't have any usb floppy drive
  You need to first boot the bootable disc using a bootable diskette floppy drive!
  Then a driver would be loaded that allows you to boot from the CD/DVD drive

  Akuma explained already!

• Portege R100 - recovery CD lost

  Hi... There's a year ago, I had installed a vista transformation pack on my portege r100, but when I uninstalled it, I was still left with icons and displays pop-up ads and other stuff from the Pack... Also, I've lost some features like system restore lately... all this has added to my frustration and I need to reinstall windows XP pro again... But I lost the CD of toshiba recovery... I have a separate bootable XP installation CD although and want to install on my portege

  I have a few questions:
  1. I have an external USB CD RW/DVD Rom Combo from Toshiba. Do I need any other than a bootable XP Pro installation CD?
  2. can I use the serial number of the COA under my portege?
  3. can I use the recovery CD to my friend toshiba instead?

  I would appreciate any kind of help on your part, thank you.

  Post edited by: audguy

  Hello

  > 1. I have an external USB CD RW/DVD Rom Combo from Toshiba. Do I need something other than a bootable XP Pro installation CD?

  You usually have a compatible CD/DVD of PCMCIA drive in order to boot from a floppy disk for Win XP.
  But I met some people here in the forum who have tried to reinstall Win XP without using a CD/DVD drive.
  Check these discussions:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums//thread.jspa?MessageID=155632

  > 2. Can I use the serial number of the COA under my portege?
  I doubt that this serial number work in relationship with other Windows operating systems. This serial key belongs to the Win operating system on the recovery disk. It s version an OEM and cannot be used with the other Win XP.

  > 3. Can I use the recovery CD from Toshiba to my friend?
  You must use the recovery disk that was specially designed for the Portege R100. If your friend is the owner of the Portege R100 even then the recovery disk should work on your Portege R100.
  The point is that the recovery disc contains drivers, tools and other software that has been developed only for some notebook series. If you want to use the recovery disk that does not contain drivers for Portege R100 then you could damage it the hardware or an error...

  Greetings

• Portege R100: Recover the CD USB 2.0 drive?

  I need to reset my Portege R100 to factory settings, erasing the hard drive and remove all documents and programs. I don't have a Toshiba CD-ROM drive, only a CD/DVD of LaCie USB 2.0 drive. It worked with other laptops, but I can't get the R100 to start with it.

  Does anyone have a suggestion?

  Hi soren,.

  Maybe you know that you can start from the CD-ROM when you push the 'C' button for aprox. 3 seconds when you press the power button. But it's only for internal solutions.
  In your question, you could test whether it works when you push "U". 'U' stands for USB device!

  Hans Bye

• A few questions about the Portege R100 upgrade

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Portege R100 of America with 768 MB of RAM, 40 GB HDD, DVD-ROM on the PCMCIA card. I want to renew the Windows XP Pro Notebook by updating the material.

  -How can I update a larger HARD drive?
  -What RAM should I update?
  -Can I upgrade the processor?

  Thank you for your help.

  holger112

  Hello

  You cannot switch the processor!

  You can upgrade the HD, but because it is an interface 1.8 "HD with an ide (50 pin ATA) the best you can find is a 60 GB HD (Toshiba MK6006GAH 60 GB) you can find them on ebay for a reasonable price

  You can easily switch from memory with a module 1 GB pc2700-dimm ddr1 (like kingston or corsair) in replacement of the module of 512 MB to a maximum of 1.2 GB.

  You can buy them everywhere

  Also note:

  install XP on a R100 is not very easy, but you can find lots of information on this forum, as here:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232

  success

• 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!