At 09:55 PM 1/16/2006, Diane Poremsky typed:
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.
For a minute I thought is was you with the Dell but it's your D-I-L
with unfortunately the results being the same because of the
proprietary Dell. The external DVD drive with my Dell L400 is also
proprietary but IDE. Fortunately I have a external DVD burner that is
both USB & 1394 just to get around these sorts of issues but I doubt
that I would've taken that on a trip with me tho.
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.)
Have any idea what caused you to lose the 2 partitions ? Agreed one
doesn't want to run Windows Setup any more than they have to.
Hopefully your trip was a success otherwise.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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