Boot External CD ROM Satelite M45 s265

HI, pls help me ! is their a way to boot a external CDrom into my laptop. because my cdrom was damage/broken.
there is no usb boot in bios. pls help me so i can reformat my laptop.
thanks,
eumir

Only external Firewire and some SCSI drives are able to boot Mac OS X. USB also would be extremely slow being 1.1 even if it could work.

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If you have a spare 32 or 64GB usb flashdrive, then you can put an incredible number of versions of Linux and troubleshooting utilities on it.
The economy of scale with usb flashdrive has gotten to the point where a 16 GB usb flashdrive is less expensive that DVD recordable media. Check out the prices at NewEgg.
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To reply to two first-time posts, following a thread of slightly different
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You should open a new thread containing your own questions and
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or any services you may have had performed by their agents; so
you may have to call Support or Sales support if your question is
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If you bought a product at retail, you probably have to take it back
to the point of sale, and discuss the matter there; or call ahead to
the store (or if Apple online, their main number in web page header)
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