Thread: *Which* external drives will boot Toshiba Portege 3500?
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Old 12-04-2008, 05:53 AM
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Re: *Which* external drives will boot Toshiba Portege 3500?
I was able to boot to CD using a LiteOn External CD /DVC (Model DX-20A4PU-06).

What I had to do was first read from the CD using another computer - this spun up the disk. Then I was able to boot to CD using the BIOS option. If I dind't spin up the disk it wouldn't even try and the Portege would fail to boot.

I hope that helps :)
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Old 12-04-2008, 05:53 AM