I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 435CDS laptop with no floppy drive and no spot to put one and I need to reformat the hard drive and reinstall an OS. It has a CD drive, but the bios only has options for booting from hard drive or floppy. The current OS (NT 4.0) has become corrupt and won't boot up. Please Help!

You need a boot device, either network, floppy, usb, cdrom or hard drive. If your bios doesn't support any of those because of your issues then you either need to get a floppy or remove the hard drive and move it to another machine. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

NT4 are not bootable CD's so having a CD Boot option is not needed. You can find second-hand floppy drives: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Toshiba-speci... You will also need the Setup Floppy Diskette Set.

Your computer originally came with a removable floppy drive. The same bay can hold a CDrom, which you evidently have. The CDrom does not appear to support CDR media, which is not surprising. Below are the formats supported. CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-Bridge (Photo-CD, Video-CD), CD-I, CD-I Ready, CD-G, Multisession (Photo-CD, CD-Plus) You have some sort of external floppy dive port. Look to see where it is. you may be able to jury rig something. Below are links to the specs and manual. http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/... http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/... http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...