I realize I brand myself as a dodo, but here goes. In trying to fix a driver problem with cd/dvd drive on my Qosmio G25 (running XP MCE), I went into my windows/system32/drivers directory and indiscriminately moved out a bunch of drivers I thought were only related to the cd/dvd drive. Turned the system off and voila, no boot.
Turns out Toshiba or Microsoft or someone has a bit of a snafu with these machines running serial ata hard drives anyway, requiring a bit of gymnastics to load the serial ata drivers when installing XP. See Tech Support Bulletin # 98081855:
http://askiris.toshiba.com/ToshibaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1192841xml&sliceId=&dialogID=4836553&stateId=0%200%205138698
Using the Recovery Disks that came with the system, I think I can re-install XP, but of course I lose all my data. All I really need to do is somehow boot the system, load the serial ata drivers, get in there and put the drivers back I moved in the first place, and I should be good to go. Problem is, I don’t know exactly how to do that, and I think one failed trial and error effort is enough on this problem.
Any help out there?
Jeff
By the way, I am armed with a remote floppy drive and a bunch of blank floppies and CDs to implement the solution. I just need the how-to.
