Are you saying it won't boot a usb hard drive now? USB hard drive enclosures are pretty cheap. Most newer machines have a BIOS option to allow booting from USB so that might solve your problem until you can get all the data off the old drive.
Regards, Jim Darrough From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Thurston Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Eug-lug] hardware fix My Toshiba A65 laptop hard drive failed and apparently took out the data connections on the motherboard. A new hard drive is not recognized in the BIOS. Question: Does anyone know of a fix using Ubuntu, such as: 1) booting from CD with just enough Linux OS to mount the USB, then load and run Ubuntu off the flash drive, or, 2) get the machine to boot directly from USB? Any other suggestions? Peter
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