Qosmio G20: Possible boot from a USB device?

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  Portege A100 seems to be developed solely for the Australian market.
  As you say it is a model number Portege A100 PPA10A - 0002L listed on the Australian page of Toshiba Portege A100 PPA10A-0002LP belongs to the same series which is PPA10A
  So in my opinion, the BIOS should work too.

  Anyway, I doubt that the BIOS update will add boot options.

  Usually the BIOS supports booting from CD/DVD drive, drive HARD, LAN and USB FDD.
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  I doubt you'd be able to boot from USB WEIRD since this Portege A100 supports an internal CD/DVD drive.

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  Hello all you people support for this forum:

  I have a Qosmio G20 purchased at the Canada a couple of years back. I lost my recovery DVD (original copy) but I have an ISO image burned on my backup drive. I burned the image on another DVD and I tried to recover from this DVD. Unfortunately, my computer does not this DVD.

  The BIOS is set to boot from the CD first. I tried to start other systems with this DVD and it starts as a result. I also tried to boot from other CD of the OS for example XP Professional. All of these discs are not the original disks. They are made from the original ISO image.

  I wonder if the Qosmio DVD only reads the original disks or is there something wrong with my G20.
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  Hey dude ;)

  Don't you think you'll encounter here of support persons?
  This is a user forum and you will encounter only Toshiba laptops users who are trying to help other users.
  I thought I should clarify this first ;)

  Now to you deliver
  The CD/DVD drive is able to read many CDs and DVDS. But of course, it can happen that some burned CD or DVD cannot be read.
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  I have a desktop PC and different CDs/DVDs from different manufacturers are not totally compatible
  I have tested a lot of CD and DVD, and finally I spent in a TDK.
  It seems that these media are better suited to my CD/DVD drive.

  Maybe you should try to boot from another bootable CD/DVD to check if the readers is not a malfunction. ?:|

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