I have a toshiba p 3500 with no O/S on it. I ord

[sergi182]

I have a toshiba p 3500 with no O/S on it. I ordered recovery CD's from ebay and they arrived yesturday. Problem is, I need a bootable CD drive to recover my system, and I dont have one. Great!!

Now I'v been reading about how to do a network install nad I am at a very big lose. None of the instuctions make much sense to me and how would I create a bootable dos image if i dont have a floppy drive? any clarification with this network install would be appriciated.

Now I was thinking, is there any way to boot the CDs from the hard drive? Iv installed dos 7.1 on the HD and inserted it into the tablet. It boots to a comand prompt. But what ever file I run it asks for the cd to be inserted. for some reason my external cd drive is not reconized by dos so I can't boot from the drive.

Im at a very big lose as how to restore by tablet. please help.

[sergi182]

IDEA......
Could i put the hard drive from the toshiba in an external enclousure, format it and use ghose on another computer to reimage the drive with the ghost files from my restore cd's? just an idea.....

[sergi182]

Anyone have any ideas. Iv gained access to the ghost image and have extracted it to my hard drive. Now I have all the files that should be on the drive for the toshiba. how do I ghost this????? How would I boot into the ghost recovery program?

[WNewquay]

sergi182,

There have been several discussions over the years about accessing the ghost image. Try a ~Search (see left side of the screen). Look for "ghost" in the Toshiba forum.