Hi all, I recently bought a second-hand (read: children-abused) Toshiba Portege M400 tablet from my friend. It has been abused like it was damned by his 3 children, but it works well for netbook purposes.

The only truly broken feature is the broken, and thus removed, DVD drive. The WACOM screen/pen, card reader, biometrics, etc all work as they should. The tablet came with Windows Vista, and upon reception I wiped the drive and installed Windows 7 via PXE (long story, but it turns out Toshiba made the dumb move to disallow their customers to boot from normal external/USB drives or other devices). Contoh Proposal Seminar Kewirausahaan Pdf Writer more.

Now when I try to update the BIOS from within Windows 7, I get an error message saying that my operating system is not supported. By Googling a bit, I read that the BIOS updaters can only be run within a Toshiba-installed Windows installation such as XP or Vista.

This tablet didn't come with any recovery discs or a recovery partition. Is there any way to update the BIOS still, given that I don't have any means to use Toshiba's suggested methods? The BIOS updater comes with instructions (1) boot from DVD, (2) install from Windows, (3) boot from floppy. Only method 3 is left, and I doubt that this Toshiba will boot from my IBM USB floppy drive. I tried doing a search for this issue, but I couldn't find anything amongst the many irrelevant threads that came up. Apologies if I missed anything. Thanks, daver.

Hi alexmuw, Thanks for your post. I searched high and low for support, but I can find nothing more than a polite 'it's not going to work' from everybody. The reason being is that the Portege series of Toshiba computers are picky suckers - they don't allow you to boot off anything that isn't Toshiba recognized (very Apple-esque). Apparently there are a few external optical drives which Portege's will recognize, but it's not worth spending over $100 for (the tablet itself only cost me that much).