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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: Jose on July 03, 2003, 08:47:29 PM

Title: Boot from PCMCIA
Post by: Jose on July 03, 2003, 08:47:29 PM

I have a Toshiba Portege 7100. I have lost my cd rom drive, I need to re-install Windows XP, Is there a way i can make my pcmcia port bootable so i can istall windows.....please help

Title: Boot from PCMCIA
Post by: Guest on July 04, 2003, 07:52:21 PM

I don't see a 7100 on their tech support site, but FWIW the path of least resistance is probably to remove the hard drive, buy a cheap laptop-to-desktop hard drive adapter, and manipulate your drive using a desktop system. When you redo the drive, you might want to create a small DOS partition with NTFSDOS, xxcopy and network card drivers. You can dual boot to it to fix problems when XP becomes unbootable and to transfer files for reinstallation.