Toshiba satellite 2060CDS Boot Problem

[confus-ed]

It tries to boot always from hard disc which means that the cdrom is not start running.

Dependant on what's already set in bios, you may need to tell it to try & start from the cd first, not the hard drive ... if you feel confident change the boot order in bios to use cd only & turn any 'boot from other device' options off to force it to start with the recovery cd's ...

[cthierfelder]

Thanks for helping me.
Could you tell me (for dummies) how I can get into the bios. I tried it already but did not succeed (probably I use the wrong key at the wrong time??)

Kind regards
c

[confus-ed]

You are welcome.

I think on tosh lappies, to get to bios its f1, it might be 'del' though ... Try as soon as it comes on - press lots of times !!!

[Damned Angel]

to enter the bios, hold the esc key while booting. it will then give you the option of hitting f1 to enter the bios.

if you want to force a cd-rom boot without entering the bios, hold the "c" key while powering the unit on.

[confus-ed]

Thank you Damned Angel ... some more stuff to add to the trivia banks

[cthierfelder]

Hi you both,

Well, now I managed to get into the bios.
In the boot priority I can see the following order

CD-ROM->FDD-HDD

Which means, I guess, that the CD-rom should start the first, than floopy than hard disc.

The recover CD is starting when I see the "Toshiba in touch with tomorrow" screen but stops after some seconds. When I enter my pass word it starts again and stops again...

Than windows is starting ending up with an error message O6 2087:001D262. The only possibility is to restart and end up in the secure mode..

The second tip "starting with pressed C" is not working at all?

And now???
Any clue?
Kind regards
Chris

[Damned Angel]

starting while holding "c" may only work for the origional internal toshiba cd-rom drives. I have never tested an older unit with anything except for the cd-roms that came with the units.

as for the error, what is the full error message? Is windows already installed? have you already installed software/drivers?

The more info the better.