tablet problems!

bobsters22232 · 9th March 2009, 9:33 PM

Hey guys i have a tablet laptop ( toshiba portege 3500 )

and it doesnt have a cd/dvd. or floppy drive, i need to install windows on it as it is corrupt, how do i do this?, network or something?, i bought a 2.5" to 3.5" hdd addapter thinking i could plug the lappy hdd into my desktop and do it that way except that i cant becuase the adapter wasnt missing the 1 pin from the center of it so wouldnt plug into my ide cable from my desktop, any ideas how to get windows onto my tablet??????

thanx

SLATYE · 9th March 2009, 11:09 PM

A few options:

(1) Just cut the extra pin off the adaptor. It's not needed anyway. I cut the one off mine and it's fine. Alternatively you can find an IDE cable that doesn't have the pin blocked off.

(2) Get a USB CD drive. I've got a Latitude XT which faces the same sorts of problems (no internal optical drive). Using a USB CD drive to install Windows worked fine.

(3) If you copy the contents of the Windows CD onto a USB drive, that should work for installing Windows - but it might be very slow.

9th March 2009, 9:33 PM	#1
bobsters22232 (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10	tablet problems! Hey guys i have a tablet laptop ( toshiba portege 3500 ) and it doesnt have a cd/dvd. or floppy drive, i need to install windows on it as it is corrupt, how do i do this?, network or something?, i bought a 2.5" to 3.5" hdd addapter thinking i could plug the lappy hdd into my desktop and do it that way except that i cant becuase the adapter wasnt missing the 1 pin from the center of it so wouldnt plug into my ide cable from my desktop, any ideas how to get windows onto my tablet?????? thanx

9th March 2009, 11:09 PM	#2
SLATYE SLATYE, not SLAYTE Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canberra Posts: 21,039	A few options: (1) Just cut the extra pin off the adaptor. It's not needed anyway. I cut the one off mine and it's fine. Alternatively you can find an IDE cable that doesn't have the pin blocked off. (2) Get a USB CD drive. I've got a Latitude XT which faces the same sorts of problems (no internal optical drive). Using a USB CD drive to install Windows worked fine. (3) If you copy the contents of the Windows CD onto a USB drive, that should work for installing Windows - but it might be very slow. __________________ Main system: Pentium-D 805 \| 1GB (2x 512MB) PQI DDR400 \| Gigabyte 8I865GMK-775 \| Xtreama Radeon 9800Pro with Zalman ZM-80HP-D \| 320GB WD SATA HDD \| Antec SmartPower 2.0 500w Laptop: Compal EL80 \| C2D T7200 \| 320GB Fujistu HDD \| 2GB DDR2-667 \| GF Go 7600