Hi.

I have a Toshiba laptop that's a couple of years old. The CD drive is broken so I have an external one instead. Now I have to reinstall win XP, but I can't get it to boot from the external drive. In the BIOS, I can only choose Floppy, HDD and CD drive as boot devices, not an external USB device as I can on my other PC.

Any help will be appreiciated.

It does not have removeable media as an option? How old is the system?

couple of years old

What model is the Laptop Tomi?

lol - think it is 3 or 4 years old.

It is a Satelite 1410-614. It came with Win XP.

Hi,
folks!
The same problem. Sony PCG-FXA32 (6 years old, wish to set up for peer-to-peer connections only), a mechanical problem with cdrom, won't spin.
Have another notebook Sony PCG-GRX700, and an external dvdrom from LG.
Manage to load win98 boot floppy on my old notebook, get to A: prompt.
It won't recognize ext.dvdrom, connected through usb port.
May be, it's possible to load XP on it via my other notebook?
Any thoughts?
Appreciate.