Naldinho
March 28th 07, 03:06 AM
I have a Toshiba M200. It has been an awful computer spending way more time
getting repaired then in use.
The latest problem was that the harddrive died. Toshiba replaced the
harddrive for me but their authorized repair centre returned the computer to
me with no O/S.
I do have a set of recovery disks from Toshiba but the computer has no
internal optical drive and it will only boot from a short list of external
USB optical drives which no local Toshiba repair centre has nor do any of
them even sell these drives should I wish to buy one which I don't
I did manage to get the recovery disks to work. I extracted the
bootimage.img file and put it on a floppy then booted from a USB floppy drive
and that loaded the drivers that set the recovery going.
The only problem is the recovery seems to have gone wrong. All the files are
on C: but if I try to boot I get a no system disk error message.
But I made a boot disk using XXClone and if I boot off the floppy and then
choose XXClone: (Target Volume) [D:0,p:1]/windows as my O/S the system boots
fine off C: and I get the Tablet Windows XP splash screen etc.
If I reboot though I get non-system disk. So basically my computer has a
complete restore and is working fine except I have to always have this USB
floppy drive with me to boot it. Once it gets going it is fine until I turn
it off.
Any ideas on what is wrong with this computer and how to fix it?
getting repaired then in use.
The latest problem was that the harddrive died. Toshiba replaced the
harddrive for me but their authorized repair centre returned the computer to
me with no O/S.
I do have a set of recovery disks from Toshiba but the computer has no
internal optical drive and it will only boot from a short list of external
USB optical drives which no local Toshiba repair centre has nor do any of
them even sell these drives should I wish to buy one which I don't
I did manage to get the recovery disks to work. I extracted the
bootimage.img file and put it on a floppy then booted from a USB floppy drive
and that loaded the drivers that set the recovery going.
The only problem is the recovery seems to have gone wrong. All the files are
on C: but if I try to boot I get a no system disk error message.
But I made a boot disk using XXClone and if I boot off the floppy and then
choose XXClone: (Target Volume) [D:0,p:1]/windows as my O/S the system boots
fine off C: and I get the Tablet Windows XP splash screen etc.
If I reboot though I get non-system disk. So basically my computer has a
complete restore and is working fine except I have to always have this USB
floppy drive with me to boot it. Once it gets going it is fine until I turn
it off.
Any ideas on what is wrong with this computer and how to fix it?