Using the Recovery Disk

Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite Model: A135-S4527. My computer has been crashing randomly, and I am looking to re-install the factory image. However, my DVD drive is broken, and thus, I cannot use the recovery disk directly. I tried to buy an external USB DVD drive, but the recovery disk does not seem to be able to work using the external DVD drive, When I try to re-install with the disk in the external DVD drive, it keeps asking me to insert a disk into the internal DVD drive (D, even though the internal drive does not work anymore. Does anyone know if there's any way I can reinstall the factory image with an external DVD drive, or other method? Thanks for the help!
-Henry

henry2304 wrote:
Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite Model: A135-S4527. My computer has been crashing randomly, and I am looking to re-install the factory image. However, my DVD drive is broken, and thus, I cannot use the recovery disk directly. I tried to buy an external USB DVD drive, but the recovery disk does not seem to be able to work using the external DVD drive, When I try to re-install with the disk in the external DVD drive, it keeps asking me to insert a disk into the internal DVD drive (D, even though the internal drive does not work anymore. Does anyone know if there's any way I can reinstall the factory image with an external DVD drive, or other method? Thanks for the help!
-Henry
The Toshiba recovery disk requires the internal CD/DVD drive. There isn't any workaround for that.
Sorry.

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