Booting issue.
 

I have a Toshiba M200. The HD died when it was still under warranty so I took it to a service depot and they installed a new HD but could not install the OS from my CDs because they did not have the required equipment. The M200 has no internal optical drive and will not boot from most USB optical drives.

I managed to make a boot-able SD card. With this card I managed to get the computer to boot and install the O/S from the Toshiba disks.

This seamed to work fine except that now the laptop will only boot with the SD card. Not a major issue but I would prefer it if the computer would boot from the HD without first having to be kickstarted by the SD card.

Any suggestions?

Re: Booting issue.
 

Could very well be a boot order issue -- you can set this in the bios. Set your HD for first and give it a shot.

Re: Booting issue.
 

Not a boot order issue. I think it is a Master Boot Record issue.

I have tried to fix it using the XP floppy set and a USB floppy drive but that crashes before I get to the Recovery Council and no bootable optical drive is available so I can't use a copy of Windows XP to get to the Recovery Council.

Re: Booting issue.
 

you cant do anything until you get your OS loaded onto your HD. You need to load it on another computer or get an external DVD drive.

Re: Booting issue.
 

My O/S is on my HD. The SD card only starts the booting process. Then the computer boots off the HD.

I'm 99% sure that the issue is with the MBR. I just need to know if there is any way to fix that other then the Windows Recovery Council. I've been searching for a utility off and on for a while and just figured maybe someone here would know.