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Toshiba satellite pro 420cdt problem

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by nisby 1 view

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I have the above mentioned laptop. It happens to have been formatted by mistake and the external ploppy drive is not working. Could someone assit me on how to boot from the cd as I am unable to access the bios.

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by sit0nmyfase

Unless your BIOS is set to boot from the cdrom you will have to access the BIOS. Why are you unable to? Im not sure about toshiba but most enter BIOS using the DEL or ESC key, if those dont work try some F keys. i know HP is F1. You will need to access the BIOS or your in real trouble.

by sgt_shultz

I visited the support section of www.toshiba.com to confirm that Toshiba is one of those laptops you need a floppy disk to enter setup. you can easily download and create one but guess we need to get that external floppy drive working. is it the kind that goes into the cdrom slot? is it a usb drive? tell us more about it and the reason you think it is not working. check out their website, it is great. it might have info on getting dos drivers for the usb external floppy, for example. or maybe the setup disk has them on it. it is worth trying. you can easily find support files for that system or here is the url, take out any spaces that creep in when i paste it:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soid=106115&moid=1073769756&BV_SessionID=@@@@1961811992.1067021061@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgadcjjmkfidgcgfkceghdgngdgli.0&ct=DL

by sgt_shultz

you did *try* a bootable cd, yes? maybe if you can discharge the cmos battery for a couple days it will return to the defaults and boot from cd then. how? i am not sure. visit their website. so many goodies are there. you will want to check it out.

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