Not sure i follow - i have a toshiba with an external drive - my daughter in
law has a dell laptop. We (son and i) hoped to use her external cd to boot
my laptop - but hers won't work on non-dells.
Anyway, i'm home now - where i have access to the toshiba external cd rom.
It's worse than i thought. C and D partitions are damaged and are seen as
all free space in windows setup. C's not a big deal (it's the windows
partiton), but D does have some unbacked up files on it. E appears fine.
When i put the drive in a USB case and plug it into the desktop, the desktop
can't see any of the drives. Windows setup takes *forever* (long enough for
me to start it and get in the shower and it is still loading files 10 min
after I get out of the shower.)
On 1/16/06, Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At 09:09 AM 1/16/2006, Diane Poremsky typed:
> >the only external cdrom available was for a dell and they use two usb
> ports
> >- one for power - and the two are stacked together (not on a Y cable) so
> it
> >only works on dells. :( we discovered this after i downloaded winxp from
> >msdn and burned a cd to attempt a repair.
>
> I assume that it has bluetooth &/or 802.11g wireless so you could do
> some backups albeit slowly but how are you suppose to do a repair or
> image backups ? You mean you're suppose to buy a Dell external cdrom
> for the thing ? Yikes !
>
>
>
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> Diane Poremsky
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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