Hello,

I don't know if I need to start a new thread as it relates to what has
been discussed here.

I have a Toshiba Portege 3480 and a Sony pcga-cd51 CD-Rom drive, and
want to put XP on this machine, but I can't find a way to get the
machine to recognise the CD-Rom under a DOS Boot Floppy.

Can someone out there help as I have to get this completed by the
weekend as a favor to a friend.


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The Toshiba BIOS is a little different here. You should be able to boot
from your CD/DVD drive on an M200 by holding down the F12 key while
switching the tablet PC on. You can then use the cursor keys to select the
boot device - had to look this up in the manual myself first time I needed
this!

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"Morituri" <Morituri.12k70w@news.mobileminds.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I don't know if I need to start a new thread as it relates to what has
> been discussed here.
>
> I have a Toshiba Portege 3480 and a Sony pcga-cd51 CD-Rom drive, and
> want to put XP on this machine, but I can't find a way to get the
> machine to recognise the CD-Rom under a DOS Boot Floppy.
>
> Can someone out there help as I have to get this completed by the
> weekend as a favor to a friend.
>
>
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Is the M200 more forgiving than the 3500? 3500 has the same options,
but it won't boot from the CD/DVD unless it's the PCMCIA version.
Though a couple people have mentioned that a couple other ones worked
for them (one model of a sony and a lite-on model) for USB, but nobody
else ever duplicated it.

I'm ready to pick up another tablet, have a company who wants to pay
me a good chunk to do some work on their network. So the first thing
to come out of that is a tablet, once I decide which one.

John



On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:48:45 +0100, "Nick Lennox [MSFT]"
<nlennox@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

>The Toshiba BIOS is a little different here. You should be able to boot
>from your CD/DVD drive on an M200 by holding down the F12 key while
>switching the tablet PC on. You can then use the cursor keys to select the
>boot device - had to look this up in the manual myself first time I needed
>this!

JDTHREE [MVP] wrote:
> Is the M200 more forgiving than the 3500? 3500 has the same options,
> but it won't boot from the CD/DVD unless it's the PCMCIA version.
> Though a couple people have mentioned that a couple other ones worked
> for them (one model of a sony and a lite-on model) for USB, but nobody
> else ever duplicated it.
>
> I'm ready to pick up another tablet, have a company who wants to pay
> me a good chunk to do some work on their network. So the first thing
> to come out of that is a tablet, once I decide which one.
>
> John

Yes, I believe the m200 is more forgiving than the 3500 for boot drives. I
think it ships with a Toshiba usb cdrom drive which is bootable by hitting U
key upon boot. You should of course verify this before purchasing one. I
have a 3500 and instead of purchasing a pc card bootable cdrom, I use my
backpack cdrom drive with a pccard and cable I already have. Good luck!

>
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:48:45 +0100, "Nick Lennox [MSFT]"
> <nlennox@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> The Toshiba BIOS is a little different here. You should be able to
>> boot from your CD/DVD drive on an M200 by holding down the F12 key
>> while switching the tablet PC on. You can then use the cursor keys
>> to select the boot device - had to look this up in the manual myself
>> first time I needed this!

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dear all
i am still in problem to boot from cd/dvd. After pressed the F12 button, its show me the boot sequence, when i select cd/dvd option, there no result display, its boot only hdd. is there any suggestion? Pls help me in solve the problem.
Thankx

Muhammad Jamil

Here is Toshiba's support article on how to boot:
http://askiris.toshiba.com/ToshibaSu...%200%205618811
(the URL is from http through and including 18811)
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"jamil" <jamil@bismillah.com.pk> wrote in message
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> dear all
> i am still in problem to boot from cd/dvd. After pressed the F12
> button, its show me the boot sequence, when i select cd/dvd option,
> there no result display, its boot only hdd. is there any suggestion?
> Pls help me in solve the problem.
> Thankx
>
> Muhammad Jamil
>
>
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