need some help

[ASSEMBLER]

i have someones laptop with a serious problem of not booting even in safe mode so the easiest thin would be to use the recovery disc only the disk drive does not work but it has a external drive but the laptop does not recognise this when trying to boot from cd rom as there would be no usb drivers.is there a way around this.

 

[wol-va-rine]

i have someones laptop with a serious problem of not booting even in safe mode so the easiest thin would be to use the recovery disc only the disk drive does not work but it has a external drive but the laptop does not recognise this when trying to boot from cd rom as there would be no usb drivers.is there a way around this.

there are laptop to desktop adapters that would allow you to connect it to a desktop and access it that way...

here you go...

 

[Raffaz]

The BIOS needs to have a boot from USB option, if it hasnt got it, then there might be a BIOS update.

 

[ASSEMBLER]

ive looked in bios it does not seem to give me the option

 

[Raffaz]

Check for an update then

 

[ASSEMBLER]

how would i be able to load the update

 

[Raffaz]

Have you got a floppy drive on there? If not then you might have to get a replacement CD drive. Or you might even be to do a network installation if you have a PXE compliant NIC (basically a NIC that you can boot from)

 

[joxley1990]

What laptop is it mate?

 

[ASSEMBLER]

its a packatd bell easynote ill get the exact model later.
is it possible to take the hard drive out and put into another laptop with a working cd rom just to check the hard drive.

 

[freestyler105]

its a packatd bell easynote ill get the exact model later.
is it possible to take the hard drive out and put into another laptop with a working cd rom just to check the hard drive.

Yeah, try that if it works. You might be able to get an adapter to put the hard drive in a regular desktop PC as well if needed.