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recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 10:19 am
by FA7289
Looks like I have a dead CD drive on a CF-30. Can the Panasonic recovery CD data be transferred to USB stick, for boot?

Thanks Again, Steve C

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:42 pm
by Shawn
No one has made it work so far for any of the dvd based recovery disks.
It will boot and then stall. It it hardcoded to read from the optical drive.
I am sure some quick editing of some configuration file would cure it.
But I am a hardware guy and I lack the software skills

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:44 pm
by Shawn
Maybe if someone would boot the standard windows recovery and then point it to the wim file from the dvd.

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:53 pm
by User32
Shawn wrote:No one has made it work so far for any of the dvd based recovery disks.
It will boot and then stall. It it hardcoded to read from the optical drive.
I am sure some quick editing of some configuration file would cure it.
But I am a hardware guy and I lack the software skills
Send me a ISO that has been copied sector by sector from the CD, I think I know a way.

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 7:47 pm
by ADOR
Do you have any other toughbooks with a dvd drive?

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 9:13 am
by Shawn
User32 wrote: Send me a ISO that has been copied sector by sector from the CD, I think I know a way.
Give me an address and I can mail the dvd to you.

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:23 am
by FA7289
Shawn wrote:
User32 wrote: Send me a ISO that has been copied sector by sector from the CD, I think I know a way.
Give me an address and I can mail the dvd to you.
Thanks Shaun, I have the panasonic recovery CD. I though it would
be nice to have a USB recovery stick. No big deal, i will just put a good drive in it, temporarily.

Thanks to all for the response,

Steve Carlisle

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:32 pm
by Shawn
I swapped a blu ray into the optical caddy for my CF31 and CF 52

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:15 pm
by FA7289
Shawn wrote:I swapped a blu ray into the optical caddy for my CF31 and CF 52
Shaun, how'd ya do dat?

Steve

Re: recovery CD to USB stick

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:08 pm
by Shawn
Pulled out the dead dvd from the plastic caddy. 4 screws.
I will find photos and post them.