Author Topic: Toshiba Satellite a40 won't boot from disk? (Read 5900 times)

comda · « **on:** July 17, 2010, 03:44:21 PM »

Ok so I have this Toshiba laptop and when it boots i hit F1 , F2 and it doesn't go into the bios so i can make it boot from cd to reinstall the OS any ideas? The win 98 toshiba I have does the same thing

Geek-9pm · « **Reply #1 on:** July 17, 2010, 06:05:23 PM »

Here is a very simple diagnostic.
Remove the HDD.
Power up with Windows CD in drive.
What happens? Does the CD start?

comda · « **Reply #2 on:** July 17, 2010, 07:04:49 PM »

yes it enters setup. meaning the dvd is the second boot device. Which i want to make first but can't access the bios

comda · « **Reply #3 on:** July 17, 2010, 07:06:31 PM »

it's just that i recieved this second hand an didn't get the recovery disk or the portable floppy usb drive. so i downloaded the drivers from toshiba and want to install win xp home

patio · « **Reply #4 on:** July 17, 2010, 08:58:17 PM »

There's probably a hidden Recovery partition on there to restore the machine back to Day One status...
I'd spend some time looking up the procedure on the Toshiba site...

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