Portege Z930 - impossible to boot from the external USB CD/DVD drive

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• Portege Z930-118 does not recognize the external USB CD/DVD drive

  My new Z930-118, with windows 7 64 bit home, does not recognize the external CD/DVD drive when I plug it into the USB port.

  The CD/DVD device does not even appear at all in Device Manager.

  The reader is a SE-S084 Samsun and works well on another laptop.

  I already checked for the "upper_filter", "lower_filter" with the regedit, but entries are not there, so no help.

  Hello
  I m not very well how to help you.

  I found some information about this WEIRD disc and it seems that he didn't need an external power supply. Its USB bus powered so I guess around 500mA power since it is the default value provided by a USB 2.0 port.

  I don t think that there is a problem of missing software. It is a plug n play device so you need to connect it to the USB port and the system should automatically recognise.

  From my point of view of the few you try to connect the external USB ODD two ports to aid a * Y * Cableusb.
  I think the reader needs more power provided by a single USB port.

• NB100 will not boot from the XP CD in the external USB CD/DVD drive

  I try to install XP Home in my NB100
  The netbook still refuses to boot from the XP CD. It's just not more
  Returns the current operating system (Ubuntu) or give the error "Could not find NTLDR" dreaded.
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  If I connect this external hard drive on my computer Windows 7, (another Toshiba
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  Can anyone throw any light on what is happening on Earth on?

  Hello

  There are various reasons why this error message:
  In most cases this error because the laptop is trying to boot from a HARD drive or flash drive that is not configured correctly. Maybe the drive is not bootable or not compatible.

  It would also be possible that some sectors on the HARD disk, HARD drive failures are corrupt or BIOS is damaged. NTLDR error messages may also appear if the master boot record is damaged.

  In your case I recommend that you format the first HARD drive before booting from the hard drive CD7DVD external using Win XP CD.

  By the way: you must add SATA driver to CD Win XP using nLite.
  The SATA driver is placed on the European driver Toshiba page in the Intel Storage Manager

  The SATA driver is needed to recognize the HDD by Win XP!

• 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 - boot from the external HARD drive

  I have a Portege R100 and the HARD drive has failed. I installed a new HARD drive and I have the Toshiba recovery disks. I tried to boot from a generic USB CD-ROM but the laptop did not recognize.

  I have a disk of Toshiba USB drive it does not recognize and I have a restore disc but I don't know how from there. Do I have to buy a CD external Toshiba and if so, which?
  Any useful suggestions?

  Hello

  Boot from the external USB CD/DVD drive is not possible.
  You will also be able to boot from USB HDD!

  If you want to boot from the CD, you must use a compatible PCMCIA cards (16-bit and 32-bit Cardbus) CD/DVD drive.

  For more information, see this article from Toshiba:
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

  and this other thread:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=97343𗰿
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=8991&MessageID=31246

  Good bye

• Portege 3480: is it impossible to boot from a key-USB-cd?

  I would like to install win 2000 on my portege 3480. However, I have a lot of difficulty getting to boot from external cd readers. I tried with a Cd Player and a LiteOn DVD drive iomega. None of them works. The two drives are connected via the USB port. I read somewhere that we can start using pcmcia on the 3480 cd players - can that really be true?

  Hope someone can help out me.

  Thank you

  Steffen - Denmark

  Yes, it's true
  Generally it is not possible to boot from the external USB CD/DVD drive.
  You need a compatible PCMCIA reader and supported.

  Please check other messages of the forum in this category:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=18540
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=18417

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  So I searched high and low, and I don't know if the Toshiba Satillite are able to start an operating system on an external hard drive. I discovered that there are portable computers that can do but their BIOS must beable to do. If Toshiba laptops can do those who can?

  Hello

  As far as I know it of not possible to boot from the external USB HDD.
  I found several postings on similar themes and it seems that it is only possible to boot from the external USB FDD, HDD, ODD and LAN are sometimes also PCMCIA card.

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  Hello

  You can boot from the external USB CD drive, but you need a supported drive.
  Please also check this topic on the forum:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=944&MessageID=2086#2086

  Good bye

• Of failure, white screen MacBook Pro HARD drive try to boot from the external HARD drive

  Hello

  I have a 2008 Macbook Pro which is having some problems, I was able to fix them, but eventually the hard drive failed. I know that because at startup until it would have a white screen Uni (no logo) and you can hear a clicking on in the lower left corner. I thought initially it was a memory problem, but after opening and verification of memory, it's clearly the hard drive.

  I solved this problem temporarily (until I can replace the HARD disk) by installing El captain on an external HARD disc and start from that. Here's the twist, I couldn't he can begin to El captain, I tried CMD + R, CMD + OPT + R, CMD + OPT + R + P and now shift. Everything that's happened would be that clicks would cease to release the keys.

  I left the macbook on while I'm at work, when I got home it was on the screen to connect the external HARD drive.

  I accidentally closed the macbook yesterday and again once when I tried to log on, I could not and I left it on a white screen while I was sleeping. There is a possibility that he may have launched from the HARD drive when I get home, but if not, is there something that escapes me to force do this?

  See you soon

  Usually start up to a blank screen without the Apple Logo, may report one of the following:

  • Hardware failure
  • Boot drive is not recognized as valid and updated updated
  • OS X essential software is missing, hurt moved or renamed or corrupt
  • A firmware update is necessary

  No matter who, in order to boot from an external drive "bootable", you would normally hold down the Option key until you get a screen that offers a number of devices to try to boot from.

  Alternatively, you can try holding down the C key to try to boot from the external drive.

  If none of these startup options work, then the bootable disc or the USB port on your MacBook Pro can be the question.

  Since you have a Mac pre-2013, if you hold down the D key while booting, the built-in Apple Hardware Test should start up.  This can help to identify hardware problems.

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  While booting, the computer tries to boot from the external drive and nothing happens.

  In order to get the machine to start, I have to unplug the drive hard Ext., which is a waste of time.

  I would like to back up on the drive internally the computer c:

  Is there a way I can stop trying to boot from the external drive?

  At the start of the pc, open the BIOS, usually output tab, search (priority boot device), set C: 1st, 2nd or 3rd external

  Save and exit. Also, more need of HDs to put in shape before using it, most come in a "raw" State the mfg

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  I'm tryin to get my my satellite A30-414 to boot from the floppy USB drive and enter the dos mode, but all I get is a black screen (without a slider, of course!), and then the windows XP login page directly. Can you tell me if this model has a boot device menu shortcut keyboard?

  Also, I may be permanently changed some configurations of starting (to know by pressing F12 at startup, then press F2 to try later) with my attempts to get the machine to boot from the floppy drive: now even when the floppy drive is not connected, I get this black screen awkward and then, after a few seconds, the logon windows page. How do I access the Setup menu and check?

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Hello

  You can access the start menu by pressing the F2 key during the boot process. This will take you in the "setup" menu where you can change the order of selection of boot device as well as the other BIOS settings permanently.

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• Portege Z930 - can't boot from USB

  Hello

  I recently got a brand new z930 Portege with Windows 8 is installed. I tried to install a Ubuntu Linux on the HARD drive, then:

  (1) I made a bootable USB pen drive (a liveUSB) with the OS Ubunto.
  (2) change the boot order in the BIOS of my Portege so that the USB memory is the first option.
  (3) initialized the computer with the bootable USB key connected to the USB 3.0 port.

  .. .but he initialized from the HARD disk.

  Then, I also tried directly from the start (by pressing F12 to boot) menu with the connected USB live and, when, in the start menu I chose my bootable pen drive (which has been detected) as a source of start-up.

  ... but it continues to boot from the HARD drive.

  I've proved that my USB bootable pen was trully bootable: it worked perfectly in my old 720 s HP-Compaq. And the USB 3.0 port seems to work correctly.

  I tried several times to boot from my liveUSB after some changes in the configuration of the BIOS, but was unsuccessful allwas.

  I don't really know which is the problem or what else I can do to solve it.
  Can anyone help?
  Thank you!

  Hello

  The point is that your laptop supports the new UEFI BIOS.
  This BIOS is designed for the Windows 8 operating system, and it supports certain essential requirements to win 8.
  Thus, it contains start secure option.
  This secure boot should be disabled if you want to start from another source.

  Recommend also BIOS UEFI MSC mode mode switching

• Boot from the external drive via eSATA

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  I have an external drive which I'm currently starting as a USB device.  The outside also has an eSATA port that I want to be able to boot from. However, when I go into the bios boot area to choose the boot order, there is no option to start using eSATA, USB only.  The Port of the computer's eSATA/USB port.
  This is so my question, how can I get the bios boot option to be able to select an eSATA?
  Thanks for the help

  From what I can find, HP didn't include the option to boot from the port eSATA on this computer.

  Many others have asked about this on the HP forum.

  I would check with HP support, however, since it is the BIOS that must support this function.

  Windows cannot change it.

  See this thread.

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/notebook-operating-systems-e-g-Windows-8-and-software/booting-from-eSATA-HDD/TD-p/140211

• Dell Latitude 10 ST2e compressed can not boot from an external USB optical drive

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  The BIOS has no setting for it. It will boot from a flash drive. I would like to boot from my CD of 2013 Acronis Recovery Console.  Anyone have any success to boot from a CD/DVD USB drive?

  Yes, there is a way to do this.

  I just did this to install Windows 10 from a DVD on a tablet of 10 Latitude by following these steps:
  (Note: my version of BIOS is A08)

  1. turn off the 10 latitude power.
  2. attach a USB hub to the USB slot unique on the side of the tablet.
  3. fix a keyboard and an external USB CD drive to the USB hub.
  4. now press the button down on the side of the Tablet and simultaneously press the power button for 5 seconds (until see you the screen light up, but will be weak against black unlit).
  5. When you see the Dell logo, start typing on the F12 key (the lower right corner shows the option press the F12 key to choose single startup options)
  6. now start choosing appear with many options to choose from, including my CD/DVD drive.

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