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Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC recovery
Ken Dixon nsvmi...@bellsouth.net alt smokers cigars Joe LaVigne wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:03:28 -0400, Ken Dixon wrote: I'm looking for a Mac compatible external DVD drive/burner. Any suggestions? Ken in Miami Buy any of them, Ken. Damned near guaranteed that they all will work, with no extra drivers, using the

in lieu of swapping out hard drives
The recovery disk has instructions that tell me to use an external DVD drive (to perform the recovery) but isn't as specific as the website as to which DVD Thanks It'd likely be easier to pull the hard drive out and put that into a desktop system using an adapter or put the drive into a USB external housing and

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
I've used it with an external cd-rw and an external DVD drive, and not needed the external power cord. Adam Meyerowitz wrote: Hello, Today I purchased a usb 2.0 pcmcia card Using the external power for the pcmcia card just rubs me the wrong way. If I have to return one/both of these items I will!!!! Thanks! Adam.

external DVD drive recommendations?
You should see both the other machine's internal hard drive *and* the Tiger DVD, and then be able to select the Tiger DVD as your boot volume. If you do things this way, it shouldn't matter that the other machine is the wrong processor architecture, since you're basically just using it as an external DVD drive.

Acronis 7/XP Questions
In order for a MacBook Pro to install Leopard on an external drive (or another computer in Target mode), the target drive must be partitioned using the GUID (c) Copy the Leopard DVD onto a spare hard drive or partition (using Apple Partition Map), modify it to allow installation on a slower G4, and boot from it

How can I get a compatible version of Apple DVD Player?
Alex Nichol alexn.mvp...@ntlworld.delete.com microsoft public windowsxp general desert rose wrote: I connected the drive to my laptop through a USB cable but then a warning message popped that The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that The inbuilt burning of XP does not deal in burning DVD.

Far Cry 2 maybe November ??
Status Kuo Status...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows mediacenter I've been having an somewhat frequent issue using an external USB Two instances: Re-boot/Power Up - About 50% of the time, I can use the external DVD drive. On Wake-Up - about 20% of the time I can use the external DVD Drive.

Cannot detect external dvd drive from firewire???
For the Nth time, XBox360 does not include an HD-DVD drive. Those people who bought an XBox360 and who wanted HD movie playback could *optionally* go out and buy an *external drive* for that. Microsoft's HD-DVD troubles apparently go far beyond the XBox, though. Links please. Or just more lies justified with

IMOVIE ===> External DVD drive
Philo, why can't the poster back Vista up to an external hard drive using Acronis; delete ALL partitions, formatt, restore from backup, run startup repair, and it is done! He is not trying to change Drive letters; he is trying to MOVE Vista to the other partition from H: to C: All the apps that are installed

IMOVIE ===> External DVD drive
In principle, any of these models are able to run 10.4 (if installed from CD, or with help from another computer or an external DVD drive). 320 MB memory meets the minimum requirement, You could get around this by using an external hard drive in a Firewire enclosure, which can also be used to boot the computer.

Allan/Janice - A Question
Originally it didn't, since I'd disabled that behavior (I've been using VLC instead). But when I manually started DVD Player with a DVD inserted into the new drive, the first thing DVD Player did was to ask me to specify a region. This, of course, defeats the original rational for getting this external drive in the

Can I restore Windows 98 from an USB external CR-rom drive?
... i just recently bought a sony external DVD drive to watch movies and tv DVD shows on my computer. when i play DVDs through windows media player (namely, Futurama season 4), I dont have a problem using nero to watch my DVDs, i just prefer the interface of Windows. any help to remedy this problem is appriciated.

iDVD with external sony 500a
It's a bit worrying at first as it seems to assume you are transferring using a cable or a network, but if you work your way through you get the option to save Use a CD, DVD, external drive, whatever to save the files on. Then after installing Vista, use EasyTransfer to read the files from the disc or external

Using DVD Player on DVD driveless G3 iMac
The main drive (C drive) would not boot and he replaced it with a new drive. Having done that, he found he had an unused USB external a case into which he installed the old drive, Just like you can boot using a CD or DVD drive you can boot from a USB drive even a thumb drive if your system supports it ;-)

Wallstreet questions
Boogus.com> wrote: DJW wrote: John, The original post was because I could not boot using my hard drive C and the internal DVD was faulty (been that way for some time) so I wanted to know how to use the windows 98 install CD with an USB external CD_RW drive. Never could get it done that way.

Advice - Best way to transfer settings to a Vista Clean install.
The easiest way seemed to be to install it on my daughters computer using an external DVD drive through the USB port. I've recently brought a combo CD writer. Once fully installed on the hard drive using 2 gigs is the DVD disc needed in any way? Regards Brian "Greg Carter" <cypherg...@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi Brian,

Vaio Superslim notebooks incompatible with software CODECs?
Burn the CD, boot the computer from the CD (a BIOS setting may be required to make your CD/DVD drive your first bootable device). You'll be running Ubuntu on your computer If you have the external USB2 hard drive hooked up to your box, you'll be able to find it and deal with reformatting partitions to FAT32.

Using DVD Player on DVD driveless G3 iMac
I've been having an somewhat frequent issue using an external USB 2.0 DVD player and MCE 2005. System: Shuttle SS51G Case/MB P4 2.2, 1Gig ram LeadTek Two instances: Re-boot/Power Up - About 50% of the time, I can use the external DVD drive. On Wake-Up - about 20% of the time I can use the external DVD Drive.

Using DVD Player on DVD driveless G3 iMac
The drive format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) When I try to boot from the external cloned system (using Startup Disk in System Preferences) I am presented with the registration and set-up proceedure that you get when booting a new computer for the first time. I have tried cloning the DVD install disk to the other

Using Encarta 2004 DVD on a CD computer?
Carry the external drive around to each computer, and make an image (or use a DVD, like you said you would). I've not used TrueImage before, but I'll assume it is functionally similar to Ghost. Here's why this is simpler than using Vista's built in capabilities: When a computer goes down, if you had used Vista to