Portege M200: Booting from SD to external hard drive

"M200 Recovery using Floppy or SD Card
Posted: 15-Aug-2005 10:36
I am posting this in the hope it will help others seeking to use the recovery CD/DVD but without a bootable CD drive. I would like to acknowledge the Toshiba forum of TabletPCBuzz.com
http://tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12414
for the inspiration of how it was done.
1. You will need a floppy drive or an SD card plus any type of CD drive. If your M200 is not working properly you will also need access to another computer to prepare the floppy disk.
2. You will need to download some software: IsoBuster
http://www.isobuster.com/
and WinImage
http://www.winimage.com/
or similar programs.
3. Put the Recovery CD into any computer and run IsoBuster. Click on Bootable CD on the left and then on the right you should see an .img file of size 1.41MB on the right. On my CD it's called Arnes Boot Record.img. Right click on it and extract the file. Close IsoBuster
4. Open WinImage and then File/Open this .img file. This will be your boot floppy with all the CD drivers you need. In Disk, ensure Use Floppy A: is ticked then Disk/Write Disk. Close WinImage
5. Connect floppy and CD drives to your M200, and boot up from the floppy. It will take some time to find the CD but it will and you will eventually get the recovery screen.
That's it! If don't have a floppy drive but have an SD card and a working M200 then Toshiba's SD card program will put the .img file onto the SD card and you can then boot from there.
There is a good chance this method will work for other Toshiba notebooks but I can't check this"
(author stephem)
This works!
What i would like to know is, is it possible to somehow boot of the SD and instead of the CD drive it finds my external ide to USB hard drive and boots off of the windows on that?
Thanks.

Hi there
I hope after long time you will end your problem. The compatible ODDs for your Portege M200 are:
1) Toshiba, PA3352E-SCD2, USB2.0 CD-RW/DVD-Rom Drive
2) Toshiba, PA3402E-1DV2, Rev.501, USB2.0 DVD Super Multi Drive,
3) Toshiba, PX1055E-1NST, (Freecom drive), with a PC Card (16bit), Cable II, PCMCIA,
4) Toshiba, PX1055E-1NST, (Freecom drive), with a CardBus, Cable II, CARD BUS
When you install recovery image be sure that external device has enough power supply. I recommend you to use AC power supply adapter for external ODD (if available).
I have also found info you can use:
a) Toshiba, PA3352E-SCD2, USB2.0 CD-RW/DVD-Rom Drive
b) Toshiba, PA3402E-1DV2, USB2.0 DVD Super Multi Drive
I hope you will find out which one is the best for you.
Good luck!

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