Qosmio G20 - System recovery without CD Drive?

Hello Everyone.
I have Qosmio G20 and the internal DVD Drive is not working.
I have recovery DVD also, since DVD Drive is not working I am not able to boot with recovery DVD and do the recovery.
I do have external DVD Drive also but Qosmio doesnt support USB external drive for booting.
Is there any way to recovery my system without replacing my internal DVD Drive.
Regards
Karthik

Maybe if you start your notebook in DOS and load DOS driver for external device. With full access to external device maybe you will be able to start recovery procedure.
To be honest I don't understand why you don't want to replace optical disc drive. Qosmio G20 is so old and parts are not expensive anymore. Check eBay and you will find a lot of drivers for Toshiba notebooks.
Replace the drive and be happy. It is not so big investment.

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> I found the program "Toshiba Recovery Media Creator" that appears to create a "System Recovery."
> Would this be what I am looking for to create a backup of the computers OS and preinstalled software?
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This excerpt taken from HP manual for your computer.
On some models, you can perform a recovery from the partition on the hard drive from either the Start
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● Select Start > All Programs > Recovery Manager > Recovery Manager.
– or –
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Hello, fellow Toshiba users,
at first I apologize if this question has already been answered, but I failed to find existing answers to my problem.
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Identify your laptop model name, product number:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00033108
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Shut down the notebook. Tap away at the esc key as you start the notebook to enter the Start-up Menu. Select the Bios option ( usually f10 ) and under the Advanced or Diagnostic tab you should find the facility to run tests on both the Hard Drive and Memory. Post back with the details of any error messages.
Note: If the option to run these tests is not available in the Bios Menu, use the f2 diagnostic menu instead.
Can you also post back with the following details.
1. The full Model No. and Product No. of your notebook - see Here for a guide on locating this information.
2. The full version of the operating system you are using ( ie Windows 7 64bit ).
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Hey Guys,
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I need/want to factory reset my PC - its starting to run slow
I need to re-partition from my existing 4x partitions to just having 2
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Possibly as a result of upgrading the disk drives at time of purchase, I don't believe I have a hidden Recovery partition in order to do a System Recovery from the Hard Disk Drive - see image of my current partitions attached
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Do You agree that I DONT have a Recovery Partition - when looking at the partition image? I'm confused on this point coz people say its hidden!?
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WOW, thanks Macius for that great, full and thorough reply...cheers mate
I suspected I didn't have a recovery partition - so thanks for confirming it as I planned to risk it and try! I guess it doesn't really matter why, and it would be futile to go and blame the re-seller or Toshiba at this late stage in the game in hopes they would help...
Yeah, I just went to Microsoft Software Recovery hoping to download Win 7 OS and create a recovery disk but of course Microsoft would NOT allow it due to it being software that was pre-installed on the device blah blah blah (see error image)
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However before I proceed, I noted that it prompts for a "floppy" to create a recovery disc but as this model does not have this facility can the data be saved to CD. I did not want to get all through the procedure and find I could not finish it due to no floppy drive!
Or alternatively should I just use the product recovery DVD-Rom that came with the laptop in the event of a problem...not sure if this would hold the same data?
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Hello again
The recovery DVD and Tools & Utilities CD are two different things.
The recovery DVD that you got with your unit contains just an image. This image contains operating system, all necessary drivers, tools and different utilities. Like you know the Qosmio is pretty complicated unit and installation is not easy. Because of that Toshiba software department has created this image and on this way everybody (experienced and also non-experienced) users can be able to install the unit in very short time. If the unit is preinstalled with recovery CD it is not necessary to install any driver or other stuff.
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I hate recovery disks. Too many times they don't work and you are left high and dry.
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Description
CyberLink Recovery Discs utility resolves an issue where Recovery Discs sent from HP do not work on a new hard drive.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-80183-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
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Use the 25 character windows 7 product key to activate your installation.
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html
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Link to the W7 ISO file downloads is below. Download the applicable version of Windows 7 that is on your product key (Home Premium, Pro, or Ultimate).
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Scenario: I've installed a new (blank) hard drive on my 2008 HP Pavilion dv3500. I need to install the factory image on this new drive in the original HP machine.
1. I am booting from the recovery disks I made (F9 from system startup menu)
2. The first disk loads some files after which Recovery Manager opens up.
3. Without giving me any option other than to shut down, the Recovery Manager Wizard tells me:
"Recovery data is missing. Please use recovery media to restore the system."
Well, that's what I'm doing! - so why can't I click next have have the recovery manager install the factory image from the recovery disks I made?
4. Clicking "Finish" on wizard restarts the system
5. hitting ESC goes into Startup Menu again
6. F11 - System Recovery:
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Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
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Summary: neither booting from recovery disk nor directly calling "System Recover" with F11 initiate the system recovery process from the recovery disks when a new drive replaced the older, smaller one.
Anyone see a step I'm missing here?

Try booting with a utilty cd to delete any partitions, create 1 partition & format hdd. I have had good results with the free Partition Wizard .Download the Bootable CD iso here .Get ImgBurn here to burn the image to cd.
After all operations are done with PW, boot from the Recovery Disks and try again.
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