I have a toshiba m200 tablet. It comes with no cd rom drive. \nI had to change the harddrive and now i cannot recover the system due to the fact that i have no cdrom.\n\nI have the factory system restore cd. What possible ways can i get to run a system restore cd onto my laptop?
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There is no easy way to do it.\n\nThe only way I can think of would be to create a bootable network floppy disk to give you DOS access to the network, then you can map a drive to another PC and run the windows XP installation from there... Network install. It will work but you'll have to use a full version of XP.
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Then you need to get one.\n\nCall your computer's manufacturing company and ask them to send you one. Its better to spend $10 on a recovery disk rather than spend $200 on a Windows CD. If you tell them you need a recovery disk for your computer, then they will sell you one.\n\nOtherwise, you will have to try and make a recovery disk on your own , but its a tedious process and its best to just invest in a recovery disk instead.
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Stick the disk in \n\nturn on the computer press f12\n\ngo to boot from cd \n\npress key quickly \n\nand it will take you through a reinstall just dont press repair. \n\nmake sure you put in your drivers disk afterwards otherwise things wont work
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The CD you lost very well may have had Net MD Simple Burner and a Net MD Driver. Contact Sony about a replacement CD or just download the program and driver from \nhttp://www.gooduse.com/netmd.html \nIf you have any compatibility issues, you'll need to obtain the CD.\nI hope i've been of assistance
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Honestly if you are trying to fix your computer, reformatting it will only wipe the data off of the hard drive, there is a lot more to fixing the PC than formatting the hard drive.\nIf you want to 'fix' the laptop by wiping it out and installing XP fresh, then the best way is to boot from the XP CD you got with the laptop. Some laptop don't ship with CDs now, you have to make them (using a utility included with the OS), buy them from the company, or access a hidden partition containing the discs (usually pressing F6 before the windows boot screen)
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I'm surprised the company you bought the PC from didn't a include a recovery CD.  But as soon as put PC on is there is an option to do a system recovery?
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Sorry but gateways last I checked dont store recovery information on the machines hard drive\n\nYou will need to contact gateway for another restore CD
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First you should check that its actually the CD ROM drive that is bad and not the actual CD.  Have you tried using other CD's in the drive?\n\nThen I would unplug the power from your system open up the box and ensure that the power cord and bus are still firmly connected (unlikely that they are become disconnected but you might as well check)\n\nIf none of those did the trick, then I would purchase a new one.  They are super easy to install.
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My experience with the restore disk that comes from the manufacture is that the disk will essentially reformat your hard drive.  Requiring your to reload all the custom software that you had installed.
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Right click on my computer --> manage\n\nGo to disk management and post back and let me know if it sees the hard drive.\n\nDo you have any thing on the hard drive ( I know you said it as new ) but if you have any data on there and you wipe it, you will obviously lose it.\n\nAnyway if not then just format it in disk management and it should then appear in windows.\n\nIf thats not the case then please post back with more specific info , ie motherboard make and model.\n\nIf you need help with getting that info post back as well.
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just reformat everything.  the windows o/s you have should boot automatically from your CD-ROM.  there are free utilities from majorgeeks.com to retrieve your lost data, even if you've reformatted the drive(s).  good luck, you're NOT an idiot.  everyone has had their computer woes.  how'd your Vista go?
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Try restarting your computer. If the drive is removable, try taking it out and putting it in. Try going to device manager and making sure there are drivers installed for it. You can do this by going to start, right click on my computer, click properties, click hardware tab, then click the device manager button. Look for anything with an ! or ? icon. If there is one on the CD/DVD drive then it's a driver problem, easily fixed. I'd tell you where to get the driver if I knew the model of your computer.\n\nAnd if none of these work, it may be the drive fried or got disconnected from the board.
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2002 not that old. You can buy a cd-rom drive somewhere online from a computer store. Replacing is a child's play, just slide out the old one and insert the new one. Having an external drive kind of defeats the purpose of a laptop. If you familiar with eBay, there are several item for sale, ranging from refurbished to new. This is a refurbished DVD/CD-RW drive ending in 6 hours: http://cgi.ebay.com/DVD-CD-RW-COMBO-Drive-DELL-INSPIRON-1100-1150-5100-5150_W0QQitemZ130046271653QQihZ003QQcategoryZ64474QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\nThis is a new one (much more expensive- about $100 - but still):\nhttp://cgi.ebay.com/8X-DVD-RW-Burner-Drive-Dell-Inspiron-5100-5150-5160_W0QQitemZ200046119016QQihZ010QQcategoryZ64474QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\n\nGood luck
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Unless they are close to the same model a restore CD most likely won't work since the hardware in each computer is bound to be different.  \n\nIf you have a restore partition I've never heard of someone being able to turn one into a working CD, they aren't really set up for that.
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Go to the device manager by right clicking My Computer and select "Manage", then on the pane on the left in the list find and click on "Device Manager", then in the window on the right look for DVD/CD Drives or somethin like that and click the "+" sign to expand.\n\n  If there is a question mark next to the device (the drive your having trouble with) then that means something is wrong, in any case I would sugest downloading and installing new drivers. You can search for the latest driver for your device on the manufacturers web site of your device, download the right driver and save to the C drive or desktop (just to make it simple), double click your device in the device manager window, then click the "Drivers" tab, then click the "Update Drivers" button, select the "No, not this time" radio button and click "Next". then select the "Install from a list or spacific location(Advanced)"  radio button and click next, then go to where you saved the driver you doenloaded from the manufacturers web site and double click the driver (make sure it unzipped if it came in a .ZIP file), and hopefully that will help.\n\n If that didnt work then it may not be plugged in securley or the Drive is bad and will need to be returned to the store you bought it from. GOOD LUCK!
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1. Well, what you wanna do is save all the time. If you're working in a document, save every so often.\n\n2. Not ALL data, but most. Some computers (with Windows XP) have ways to recover data from the RAM. Any data on the harddrive will be recoverable though.\n\n3. A date recovery attempt will occur when data is lost.\n\n4. Couldn't tell you how much it would cost to recover data, but anywhere from $50 - $100 maybe.\n\n5. Try to repair the hardware, so it becomes functioning again.\n\n6. Not usually.\n\n7. Usually the best option is to recover from a CD, not the internet, but internet MAY work.