

My recommendation there would be to start by contacting the manufacturer and Losing your recovery media on the other hand is a tougher one to crack. So that’s the solution to the CD drive problem. If that happens to be a CD drive, then you’re as good as The BIOS on your machine, I’m sure, will let you boot from a USB, anĮxternal USB drive. It’s up to you if you want it to be just a reader or read/writer.īut the important thing is that this drive will let you use recovery media,įresh installation media, whatever it is you happen to have. My recommendation for most people who have a computer that has no opticalĭrive (some laptops and many netbooks) is to go out and get an external USBĬD/DVD drive. There are two problems here: one, the CD drive that you don’t have: So offhand I’d say, yes, that’s the right thing to do: reformat and Reformatting and reinstalling a computer with no CD or installation media. Answercast #4, I’ll walk through the problems and options available for
