Originally Posted by leecarrot

I came across this post after searching Google to find a way to make my SD card bootable. I feel more relieved now...this is the only working method for me so far after trying a few things before, i.e., the Toshiba SD Boot Utility I downloaded will only work with Toshiba's.

At least, now I can boot to Windows again even though my gentoo linux installation failed. Otherwise, it just got stuck on the Grub loading stage 1.5...Error 15. It didn't do anything afterwards.

Basically, I copied the $tosfd00.vfd to my SD card, then inserted it to the SD slot of my Portege m200 and rebooted. I ran fdisk /mbr and after rebooting again, I could see my Windows XP again. Now, I can move on and try to install gentoo linux again despite many failures already.

The whole thing has been a good learning experience, especially because the Toshiba Portege won't boot from the LiteOn USB cdrom I have. It forced me to do everything from hard drive, even though with some consequences....Well, I have to admit that it made me terrified just by thinking that the computer was totally dead. But I'm glad that your work has saved my computer from being unbootable at all...It is such great work. Even though I study computer science, but there is so much that I still don't know and still have to google, heheh...Moreover, I almost went ahead to purchase an external floppy drive or cdrom drive, which I was not even sure will work. Now, I don't need to anymore :)

Again, thanks very much for creating the m200 boot disk.

Regards,
leecarrot