Re: Recovery Console OEM

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Thanks for the replies. Maybe the floppy would be the
best bet. Toshiba recovery cd is rigid...no options. One
more thought on this. Toshiba has a utility that can
create a bootable SD memory card. Would I be able to copy
all floppies onto the SD card and use it to get into
recovery? Thanks again.

>-----Original Message-----
>Consider buying (or borrowing) a USB floppy drive. Most
PCs that have no
>floppy can be booted from a USB device, floppy or even a
pen drive.
>However, you will likely have to change a few BIOS
settings to (1) allow
>booting from a specific USB device class, and (2) to
boot from USB before
>attempting to boot from the hard drive.
>
>Plan B: Use any XP CDROM to run the recovery console,
since product
>activation is not used for the recovery console.
>
>"gderreck" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message
>news:12d601c53549$bd67ac20$a501280a@xxxxxxxxxx
>>I have a Toshiba Satellite M40 laptop with XP home.
>> However, the machine came with a proprietary recovery
cd.
>> I want to access the recovery console. I've been all
over
>> the net trying to find a solution. No luck. What I did
>> find out was that I could: buy a retail copy of XP
(duh),
>> or download the startup diskettes from microsoft(don't
>> have a floppy drive). The recovery cd from toshiba will
>> only recover the machine to the out of box state. That
is
>> not an option. Just want to run the fixmbr command. Can
>> anyone tell me my options? Toshiba does not support
>> anything other than full recovery(actually, they don't
>> support much of anything). Now, can I download the
>> diskette images, and make a bootable cd that will get
me
>> into the recovery console? If not, is there another
>> solution? Thanks in advance.
>
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