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General Category => Boot Managers => Topic started by: paisley on August 27, 2010, 11:18:13 AM

Title: Toshiba M200 boot from CD?
Post by: paisley on August 27, 2010, 11:18:13 AM
Hi Elmar,

you are a genius in getting the M200 to boot from USB :)- congratulations!

Can we push the envelope and also get the M200 to boot from a normal USB CD drive (in addition to the officially supported ones) so that one can (re)instal windows from the CD drive?

Thanks for your great work!

Greetings,
Paisley
Title: Re: Toshiba M200 boot from CD?
Post by: walterav on August 27, 2010, 13:26:20 PM
Quote from: paisley on August 27, 2010, 11:18:13 AM
Hi Elmar,

you are a genius in getting the M200 to boot from USB :)- congratulations!

Can we push the envelope and also get the M200 to boot from a normal USB CD drive (in addition to the officially supported ones) so that one can (re)instal windows from the CD drive?

Thanks for your great work!

Greetings,
Paisley

Try making a Windows USB stick installer, and boot it with plop.

examples:
http://wintoflash.com/home/en/
http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool
Title: Re: Toshiba M200 boot from CD?
Post by: paisley on August 27, 2010, 13:55:28 PM
That is one idea, but still booting from CD ability would be great!
Title: Re: Toshiba M200 boot from CD?
Post by: Elmar on August 27, 2010, 14:26:17 PM
Quote from: paisley on August 27, 2010, 13:55:28 PM
That is one idea, but still booting from CD ability would be great!

i know, but usb cd booting is still delayed. there are some strange things and i need more time to fix it.
Title: Re: Toshiba M200 boot from CD?
Post by: paisley on August 27, 2010, 16:10:47 PM
Oh good, so I will be looking forward to it!

Thank you very much - this is great news.