Re: Recovery Console OEM

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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