Posts by rok7751

I have a Toshiba Laptop computer with a bad system board and would like to salvage the optical drive and use it as an external drive on my PC. can this be done using some adapter connector to connect the drive to the USB port on the PC...

Thank You Very Much !!

My Toshiba Laptop has an apparent damaged motherboard. Is there any way to recover my data ? I was thinking of selling it on Ebay for the Parts but need to clear the personal info first.Could the HD be somehow connected to another...

Here we go again! i didn't manage to come up with a Linux Disk but finally found the original sony system recovery disk. i then booted from it and it's in the process of restoring the original win98 OS. this would seem to show that the...

i'm borrowing a linux disk today and will try to boot from it. will advise on it. Thanks !!

i have a ten year old Sony Laptop w/ win98 OS. haven't run it in years and just recently started it up. the battery is long dead but it runs ok on AC it booted up and everything worked. i used the floppy and cd rom drives extensively...

computer has started to shut down just minutes after windows boot and will not restart for at least 15 minutes only to crash again. if i go just into dos it will stay on all day but as soon as boot up starts it shuts down.. i did a...