[Eug-lug] hardware fix

[larry price]

booting from a USB drive should be fairly straightforward.

set usb as a boot device in the BIOS, insert a preloaded flash drive
and bobs your uncle

And setting up the flash drive is just a matter of installing to it from the CD.

If you really did fry your ide controller you won't be able to fix it
from software.

On Dec 20, 2007 1:07 PM, Peter Thurston <thurstop at gmail.com> wrote:
> My Toshiba A65 laptop hard drive failed and apparently took out the data
> connections on  the motherboard.  A new hard drive is not recognized in the
> BIOS.  Question: Does anyone know of a fix using Ubuntu, such as: 1) booting
> from CD with just enough Linux OS to mount the USB, then load and run Ubuntu
> off the flash drive, or, 2) get the machine to boot directly from USB?  Any
> other suggestions?
>
>  Peter
>
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