Portege R100: Recover from USB2.0 CD drive?

I need to reset my Portege R100 to the factory settings, erasing the hard disk and removing all documents and programs. I don't have a Toshiba CD-ROM drive, only a LaCie CD/DVD USB 2.0 drive. This has worked with other notebooks, but I can't get the R100 to boot off it.
Does anyone have a suggestion???

Hi soren,
maybe you know that you could boot from CD-ROM when you are pushing the "C" key for aprox. 3 secs when you push the power button. But this is only for internal solutions.
In your issue you could test if it works when you are pushing "U" key. "U" stands for USB device!
Bye Hans

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