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Tricking My Computer...Can You Help Me?
hey there everybody!
i need some help.
i got this small laptop computer from toshiba. like all computers it has the recovery program built on and i have to put them on somthing els. most computers you would burn it to a cd or dvd, but this computer dosn't have a cd/dvd rom drive. so it says i have to plug in a flash drive that is 8.7 gigs or bigger. i don't have one that big but i do have an external hard drive that is 1 TB. i made a partition on my HD for it, but the program won't acept it, it says it has to be a flash drive.
so my questions is...is there a way to make a computer think a partition on a external HD is a flash drive?
thanks for any help you can give,
Justin T. Southerland
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Permalink Reply by Gibson on -
just plug in the external hard drive (in this case i'm going to assume netbook or very small notebook)
Run a full system windows backup to it, this will basicly re create the whole thing + an image, if anything happens, it's easy fix.
You can make a recovery of the partition drive itself.
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Permalink Reply by Justin T. Southerland on -
i tried the formating thing and it didn't work, i tried both Fat32 and NTFS. also, the full system back up is not the problem. i have that covered. i just need to know if i can make my computer think a partition on an external HD is a flash drive.
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Permalink Reply by JT on -
Call Toshiba Support: # Computers: (800) 457-7777 (toll-free) or (949) 859-4273
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Permalink Reply by Justin T. Southerland on
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okay, i think everyone is not understanding the question.
can i make a partition on a HD be recognized by a computer as a flash-drive
answer yes or no followed by why...
sorry if i seem grumpy, i'm tired of hitting brick walls.
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Permalink Reply by Mad Max on -
Try and mount an image from the drive you wish to use as a virtual drive, it "should" then let you "burn" the contents to it. Why they didn't give you back up discs considering it has no optical drive is a total mystery. You'd think they'd put it on a specially mounted flash drive seeing as there's no other practical way of doing a format short of using an external drive.
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Permalink Reply by Justin T. Southerland on
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this sounds like it might work...where on my laptop's HD would i find the files i need to burn? it is a windows 7 OS. any ideas?
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Permalink Reply by jmh033089 on -
you have to reformat the Extral so that the computer will read it on boot up NTFS with the information data on there should be find I have done that before
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Permalink Reply by Justin T. Southerland on
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say what now?
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Permalink Reply by Michael on -
The hard drive is ALWAYS going to be a hard drive......it is not going to report from the hard drive that it is a Flash drive. The bios and hard drive controller would not allow that. Techbargains and Ben's bargains have flash drives for a 16G for 22$....I suggest that purchase....I know you already have hardware that can store your information BUT you can also add other nice utils your netbook/notebook will like. live CD for Linux ETC.....its easiest I would rather get the needed hardware for the job then fight with something else not meant to do what you are trying...
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Permalink Reply by Wandering I on -
they probably wont let you use an external drive because some system bios wont boot from an external drive, but damn near all now a days will boot from usb. But as far as I know there isn't a way to do what you want.
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