When it comes to installing a computer on a laptop, the easiest way is to directly insert the system CD into the optical drive, and then click one-click to install it. However, many computers do not have optical drives, so how to install the system? At this time, some friends said that you can directly use USB as a boot disk to install the system, but some computers do not recognize USB boot, so what should you do? What I want to talk about this time is this Toshiba R100 notebook , this computer neither has an optical drive nor does it recognize USB boot, so how to install the system? If you are interested, please read below.

How to install the system on Toshiba R100

I believe that many friends are using Toshiba laptops, such as those without optical drives, such as Toshiba R100, which not only does not have optical drives, but also does not recognize them. USB optical drive, only original factory or IBM optical drive can be used. Now I use the Toshiba R100 system that does not support USB boot and does not have a CD-ROM drive as an example to install the system from the network. (Most computers are suitable for this method only if they can be booted from the network)

Machine: Toshiba R100

Hardware requirements: A U disk (preferably a 1G one), a computer, a router, and two network cables

Software requirements: tftpd32 (required for LAN interconnection), usbBoot (used to format the U disk and It can be used as a boot disk. Other similar software can also be used. How to make a boot disk (you can see the help document of usbboot), ：

1. Use usbboot to make the USB disk a boot disk (note that you must select the HDD mode when selecting)

2. Copy the downloaded system to a USB flash drive (ifIf you don’t have a 1G USB flash drive, don’t download the full version of the system, otherwise it won’t be installed. My USB flash drive is 256M, and what I downloaded is Deepin’s streamlined version 5.8, which is only more than 200M)

< p>　3. Connect the computer (so that the computer with the tftp server installed and the computer you want to install the system on are in the same LAN)

　4. Set the tftp server: TFTPD32, first on another computer The above settings are as follows: the computer name is random; set the fixed IP to 192.168.1.202, subnet mask 255.255.255.0; start the tftpd32.exe file, select the dhcp label, Ip pool starting address is 192.168.1.200, Size of pool is 1, Mask is 255.255.255.0. Boot File is first set to NewWin98Boot.pxe, and then saved. Run the program

5. Now start the notebook, keep pressing the right direction key when the computer is turned on, and move the cursor to the second icon, which is the icon of the two computers. Then there will be a bar in the notebook that is trying to kill you. Haha, ignore it. At this time, you will see the progress of copying files on the tftp server, haha. . Wait a few seconds for the copy to be completed. At this time, the notebook enters the DOS interface 1WIN98 2USB.

6. We want to enter the U disk, so we choose 2. At this time, please be patient and wait, and then the optical drive may be read, select A, ignore it and wait for him to enter. It may be slower. , it will automatically enter the A disk after a while, which is a virtual disk. It contains many DOS commands. Copy XCOPY, partition FDISK, and format FORMAT commands all work.

7. At this time, you will enter other disks at the prompt of A: disk. Note that if you press D: and press Enter at this time, the disk you enter may not be your computer's disk, but yours. If the U disk does not enter the U disk, then try other drive letters E and F. Anyway, you need to enter the U disk

8. After entering the U disk, you can dir to view the files inside. There are a lot of files in it. As long as you run winnt.bat, the system installation will start. Click here.It can be said that we are done. The only thing left is to click on the next step and set up users.

Finally, let’s talk about a kind of mirror reply: it is similar to the above, which is to serve the winxp.gho file of more than 500~600 m from the ghost version of xp to the U disk. Your USB flash drive needs to be relatively large to use this.

Don’t copy the files on that system disk. Download SymantecGhost-v11, decompress it and copy the files inside to the USB flash drive.

The other steps are the same, except for step 7. Instead of running winnt.batl (because there is no such file at all haha), run the ghost program. After entering the U disk and issuing the dir command, you will see ghost.exe, ghost32.exe and other files. You can see them in the command prompt. Enter ghost and press Enter to run. At this time, ghost will run. This is to use GHOST11 to install the XP image file. Use GHOST to overwrite the XP GHO (that is, the large gho file you started copying to the U disk) file to the main file. Partition, after the Ghost main menu appears, use the cursor direction keys to move to the menu "Local-Partition-From Image", (go to the USB flash drive to find it) find the XP GHO program, and press Enter. Just wait.

Speaking of computers that neither have an optical drive nor support USB boot, there are very few, but Toshiba produces Since there is such a god-level computer among its products, it makes consumers feel embarrassed. If the system breaks down and needs to be reinstalled, do they have to take it to the after-sales department every time? Fortunately, some Internet experts have invented this method of using a network boot disk to reinstall the system, which solves this dilemma to a large extent. However, I would like to advise you not to buy this kind of computer without a CD-ROM drive. It will be troublesome to buy a computer that does not support USB booting.