![]() Good morning,i have a problem with a toshiba satellite l20-132. If you choose USB something-or-other instead of Hard Disk, the machine will look for every kind of connected USB device except a partitioned flash stick, fail to find one, then boot from the default hard drive - which, unless you've gone into the BIOS settings and picked your USB stick as the top priority, will still be the internal HD.īut in the end, all you really need to know to understand fully what's going on here is that Toshiba laptops, especially the low-end ones, are Satan's spawn and that's all there is to it. 1-3 Insert bootable USB drive into computer and choose it to create password reset disk. For BIOSes that lump USB sticks in with hard drives, there will generally be an unobtrusive little + sign next to the Hard Disk option on that menu choose that option and you will typically get a choice of partitioned drives, typically including your USB stick if it was plugged in before power-up. Sometimes you can get lucky and find that your BIOS lets you hit some function key or other to bring up an explicit boot device selection menu (google your model number to find the appropriate key sequence). What you need to do to tame one of those horrors is make sure the USB stick is plugged in before you power up the machine and get into the BIOS settings, then tell it to boot from hard drive ( not "USB external drive", which actually refers to a USB-connected CD/DVD drive), then find the other setting that lets you set the boot priority within the available hard drives you'll find your USB stick listed amongst those. Step 2: In the Media Selection section, check the box next to the options you want. ![]() This is because they lump any USB stick that's been formatted with a partition table in with the hard drives. Step 1: In Windows 8/7, launch Toshiba Recovery Media Creator and click Yes to continue. Can you get a Linux bootable CD (Ubuntu is a good FREE release) from a friend or download and burn it to a CD on another computer Then you can use the F12 key to boot from the CD/DVD drive into Linux. I assume you have Windows XP installed on the Toshiba. ![]() Best answer: Some BIOSes let you pick something like "USB external drive" as a boot option but won't boot from a USB stick if you do that. There is really no such thing as a boot disk for Windows.
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