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Dell recovery will not work in a Toshiba Laptop. Just make sure the boot order is set to CD/DVD driver first that will automatically start the CD/DVD driver when disc is loaded.
Okay, shut down your laptop, turn it up side down, remove laptop battery, remove Cd drive by first unscrewing the CD drive's screw before removing/detaching the Cd drive from the computer.
Turn on your computer without the Cd/drive, allow computer to boot, after a while, shut down computer, fix in back the CD drive and turn the system back on.
By now the system should read the CD drive. If it does not, then I'm afraid some this is wrong with the Drive, but I'm sure it should work.
Not possible at all. To install XP or Vista again, you need a CD/DVD drive working.
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Contact Aspire(or local technician) if they can ship a XP/Vista pre-installed Hard-disk.
Let’s determine if your CD-ROM drive or your Operating System Software ( ie...Windows XP) is the problem. You will need a bootable CD, you can use your “Dell Resource” CD or any other bootable CD disk. Power on the laptop and tap the F12 key to get to the “Boot Selection Menu”. Insert the DELL “Resource CD” into the CD-ROM drive. Select “Boot from CD/DVD drive” from the selection menu. If the laptop boots from the CD drive then you Operating System Software is the problem. If the laptop won’t boot from CD then your CD-ROM is defective and needs to be replaced.
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It could be that the burner has gone out in the drive, this is a common problem. Before you go and replace the drive, it could just be a simple driver glitch, try uninstalling the drivers for the CD drive from the device manager, then reboot. The machine will find the drive and reinstall the drivers. If this doesn't work then you can replace the drive.
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