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no problem at all, This helps a great deal! THanks everyone

last time I turned the computer on the CMOS was erased, it didn't know what the time or date was, so I don;t think that was the problem. Thanks for al your help guys and gals, think I@ll have a crack at puttign linux on it at some point in a desktop computer.

I want to install Linux on it so that I can use linux on my laptop

clearing CMOS? I have no idea what that means. Other suggestions sound good cause there are similar laptops with similar problems, although I think that there are other unfixable errors on it as well.

should being the operative word. I've tried 6 laptop CDDs in there and none of them worked, not even the Toshiba one. They make them so that they aren't incompatible because they're fags.

I've tried to find matching CD drives but it appears the model of laptop I own doesn't seem to exist anywhere. I've tried regular Toshiba CDDs in there, to no avail.

It has no operating system and its CD drive is broken and you can no longer buy them (Toshiba satellite pro A10), and it does not have a USB option in the boot priority section. Is there any way to fix it, like sticking the laptop HDD in a main computer (I have the connector) and putting a OS...

you my friend are a genius. However, It says CD ROM LAN HDD and FDD, I think that means I'm screwed, right? It says that something called USB legacy emulation is enabled.

yes it is possible, I have a cable that does the job, but I've discovered I can't use it. You need a cable that goes from 44 pin to 40 pin, you can find them on ebay for peanuts, mine cost about £4 including delivery (I had a completely different problem)

Toshiba Satellite Pro A10. It doesn't go far it just goes to the initial "TOSHIBA" bootscreen with five selectable icons. None of them do anything, neither do any of the F buttons. it may be busted forever

it doesn't let me do anything, I turn it on and all it says is "missing operating system

sorry it might have them, I'm just not sure it would work. Are you sure it would?

surely it would need the drivers (which it doesn't have) in order to do so?

I'm kind of new to the scene, I've done some work in a computing firm, but entirely programming (Java/C#/SQL etc) but I know absolutely nothing about hardware. I have a laptop which died, so I deleted windows to try and put linux on. However apparently my CD drive was broken so this wasn't...