Gateway Systems Rescue discs

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rosede

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A friend of mine has a Gateway lapatop. The hard drive crashed and burned. I purchased a new drive and the rescue cd/dvd's. Unfortunately, I discovered that the dvd drive is also bad, so I can't install from the rescue cd/dvd's.

I do have an external hard drive. I was thinking that I could dump the rescue cd/dvd's to the hard drive and boot up on it and restore from there.

Anyone know if this can be done? I know that I can boot from an external drive, so that is not an option, but I don't know how to make the external drive bootable. How do I do that?

Thanks.

Daryl
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett-Packard SR5019UK
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 + 2.40GHz
    Motherboard
    M2N68-LA (Narra)
    Memory
    2.50GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia GeForce
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC888 Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" LCD Monitor
    Hard Drives
    160 Gb Usable Hard Drive
    Other Info
    HP G56 Laptop Win 7 64bit. 4Gb Ram DDR2's. Hitachi 450Gb Hard Drive. Pentium(R) Duel-Core CPU.
Hello Daryl and welcome to the forums :party:

You have a few choices here:

1. Buy a new CD/DVD drive
2. Make a bootable USB drive of the rescue CDs

I am going to explore option 2 as it is free (assuming you have a flash drive). Take a look at this link:

How To make Bootable USB

I know that it is for creating a Windows installation usb but apply this technique to your rescue cds

Tom
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Build #1
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 3770K @4.4GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
    Memory
    Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz Low Profile (White)
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 (2GB GDDR5)
    Sound Card
    Integrated on motherboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    23" LG LCD/LED IPS
    Screen Resolution
    1920*1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung EVO 128GB SSD
    Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm
    2x500GB Seagate FreeAgent 5400rpm
    PSU
    Corsair TX650W V2 (80+ Bronze)
    Case
    NZXT Phantom 410
    Cooling
    Corsair H100 Water Cooler, 1x140mm and 1x120mm stock fans
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Desktop 2000 Wireless Keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Desktop 2000 Wireless Mouse
    Internet Speed
    95 Mb/s Download 70 Mb/s Upload
Thank you, but that isn't what I'm looking for.

First off, I haven't been able to find a utility that will create the bootable usb from these particular rescue disks. All of the utilities that I've looked at only seem to work with regular Vista system disks. These rescue disks were provided by Gateway and are not configured the same. That was why I thought of going with an external hard drive.

Thanks.

Daryl
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett-Packard SR5019UK
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 + 2.40GHz
    Motherboard
    M2N68-LA (Narra)
    Memory
    2.50GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia GeForce
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC888 Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" LCD Monitor
    Hard Drives
    160 Gb Usable Hard Drive
    Other Info
    HP G56 Laptop Win 7 64bit. 4Gb Ram DDR2's. Hitachi 450Gb Hard Drive. Pentium(R) Duel-Core CPU.
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