I usually paid for an used Toshiba Portege 3010 laptop. It has no cd drive, as well as usually an outmost floppy drive. It came with windows xp as well as installed with junk, so we reformatted the hoop in sequence to have the purify implement of windows. Problem right away is which the mechanism won’t commend the outmost CD expostulate I’ve got it bending up to (an iomega, USB). Since we can’t entrance the CD, we can’t reinstall windows. I’ve outlayed dual days perplexing to repair this, attempted large things as well as am right away so undone I’m nearby tears! Please someone assistance me. Please!
metallhd62:
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reformatted the disk how? with the external cd drive? how did you do that, from the Windows CD? If so, the drive may not be able to communicate with the machine, UNLESS . . .
you may be able to set the BIOS to recognize a USB drive as a boot device
take a look here too:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=55820edb-5039-4955-bcb7-4fed408ea73f&DisplayLang=en
The Iomega drive should have come with a utility disk that you should be able to get support in real mode. If it’s on a CD you may have to use another computer to make the floppy disk.
I’m surpised Windows XP was even on a notebook computer without a CD/DVD drive. It must be a pretty old computer with very limited resources, so I’m wondering how well it’s going to run or what you are going to be able to do with it.
I looked up your hardware specs and it looks like your notebook barely meets the system requirements to install Windows XP, which means it’s going to run slow and sluggish and you won’t be able to install or run very much else on it. I’m including links to your system specs and the requirements of Windows XP.
I have included a link to the support / download area in case you don’t have the utilities.