Portege 7020CT DVD problem

Hello,
I have a Portege 7020CT with a docking station. The docking station contains a floppy drive, ethernet connection and DVD/CD-ROM drive. I don't have any recovery CD for this machine. Recently I had to reinstall Windows 98 SE using a standard Microsoft CD, but since then I can't play DVDs on it anymore. I can read CDs with no problems. I think I may need a driver for the hardware DVD decoder but this isn't available for download from Toshiba. Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi Dan,
you are right, there is a DVD hardware decoder inside but thisi only responsible for playing movie DVDs!
Please look if you own a Toshiba Tools & Utilities CD which contains a html file with the installation order! Please use this order to get a stable OS! Then it should be able to read DVDs again!
Bye Campino

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it has no cd or floppy drive. win98 is installed but without drivers for the modem. the infra-red can locate other computers, but is not able to connect.
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Pressing the <esc> button on power up takes you to the BIOS settings.
Installing the drivers could be difficult. I have a 7010CT and there's no option to boot from USB (just floppy - hard disk - cdrom - lan). I don't think Windows98 supports USB sticks without extra drivers. I upgraded from Windows98 to Windows2000 by using an external PCMCIA cdrom and starting the installer from Windows98. Maybe you could try a PCMCIA network card of try to find a floppy disk for the Portege.

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Hello,
This is my last ditch attempt to try and get some sort of fix for my Portege 7200.
I will try and explain the best I can, so here goes.
I had a dual boot system (Linux & Win98), did not want Linux anymore so formated HD and re-installed Win98.
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bye

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