hi there, i am in dire need of some help, just purchased a toshiba m200 tablet and i was using a backup program to try and copy all my docs from another laptop over, and accidently chose to replace the "volume"... In so doing, a few of the windows files i think were deleted before I realized i had chosen the wrong option. Second mistake was in trying to use system restore to get back to original settings (assuming this would recover deleted files): wrong!

So, now when i try to boot up i get the following error messages:

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent
NTLDR is missing
Press Alt + Ctrl + Del to restart

I didn't choose to buy the toshiba external cd drive, and my megastor external cd drive isn't recognized when i try to boot from it.

Other than coughing up $500 for toshiba's external drive, is there anything that can be done to get up and running (to boot up)? Can i not use an SD card to boot or load the missing files, or boot from a network...? Is there no way to correct this system restore, or enter into safe mode?

I cannot understand how toshiba would make a machine that can only be restored with restore cds using ONLY its exhorbitantly priced external cd drive.

thanks,
mike

Error: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable.
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel® ROM

This means there isn't a bootable partition on any of the available devices. This message comes from the BIOS setting with the last option is Intel® UNDI PXE 2.0.

The NTLDR is missing states the following files are missing.

Ntldr
Ntdetect.com
Boot.ini
Ntbootdd.sys

You might try to boot off a Linux distribution (such as Knoppix) and then copy the files over to the Windows partition. Another option is to build your own bootable CD.

Good luck

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thanks for the reply, the problem with the creating a bootable cd idea is that it seems (and toshiba tech support has confirmed) that ONLY a toshiba external cd drive will work before i get into windows, so that means without that drive, i don't seem to have any option of booting from a cd... what options does that leave me??? :ermm:

Try the toshiba forums at Tabletpcbuzz.com. There are many drives <$150 that will boot the M200 and ways to make a boot SD card that will run different CD's. Although the boot card needs to be created before the problem.... I cant load Tabbuzz right now or I'd link you directly.

Linuxmon

Since this is the second time we've been asked then should compile a list of known drives.

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According to this site http://www.adebenham.com/laptop/toshiba_m200.html
you can boot off of a SD card if u name the floppy image $tosfd00.vfd