Portege 3440CT HDD Upgrade

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• Re: Portege 3440CT - starting problems

  I received a Portege 3440CT by a former colleague. It works under Windows 2000. She has not used in more than 5 years and can't remember what the password was. I tried to log in as administrator with a blank password, but the password has not been left white (grr) so basically I can't cross the password prompt.

  Shouldn't be a problem - there are a lot of Internet password recovery tools. I did a disk using this one here: http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ intending to boot from the disk - there is a brand USB Toshiba external floppy drive.

  HOWEVER: the Portege stubbornly refuses to do. The boot order is set to try the FDD before all other options; I manually told to boot from diskettes; There is no ignoring me and Win2K boot from the hard drive. Would be very grateful for any ideas!

  I do not have:
  a reader of CD or DVD for laptop;
  a network connection or internet on it, as far as I know;
  disk recovery or installation of Windows;
  anyway to start Windows without knowing the password.

  I have:
  USB flash drives / external hard disk drives;
  The installer of Ubuntu (although on a CD, so useless without a CD player?);
  other computers.

  Wipe the hard drive is a solution I'd be happy to see if anyone can advise me on how to do it - there is nothing important about the laptop that should be retrieved.

  Hi abi278,
  first of all: what do you think?

  -install a new os on this machine?
  -use the operating system installed?

  get rid of the operating system administrator password:
  -install the drive in another system and run norhdahls supertool > read each line which is given! It is able to check the registry to another hard drive as the boot device.
  -make an installation of xp on another machine, sysprep this installation and change drive hard back
  -install the drive in another system and make it bootable with back, copy the source files for the system of desires and run the installation after you reinstall hard drive to your ct 3440

  Maybe you need a special player to install...

  BTW: nordahls disc resets passwords * inside * your operating system - read the manual of this powerful tool.

• Installation of Win2k on Portege 3440CT

  I just hand over a (damaged) Portege 3440CT without a hard drive. I have no external drives, but I am trying to install an operating system. I can boot in DOS, if I format a hard drive to make it bootable (I used a Toshiba non bootable USB utility or by placing it in a machine DOS from a floppy).

  If I put the installation of Win2K disk files and run I386\winnt.exe installation begins, copies the files to the hard drive (no matter whether they are in the same partition) and restart ' to continue installation', except that it isn't. He just restsrts and is there with a flashing _.

  Am I missing something? Did I try already worked? Any suggestions?

  Neil

  PS. the damage is one of the hinges, I want to make a picture frame.

  Hello, Neil

  I'm glad to hear that you have installed W2K on this laptop old but nice. Thanks for the comments. If you have time, maybe you explain in detail how you did that. In my view, it may be useful for other people who have that old model laptop.

  I assume that you have created two partitions on the HARD drive, copied the I386 folder on the second and from there begins the process facilities. Am I right about that?

• Portege 3440CT: how to format HARD drive

  Hi all

  After suffering a little frustration, I decided to use the wealth of knowledge and experience which is available on the support forum.

  I have a Portege 3440CT which has been delivered to my friend a few years ago, by a company she worked at the time. When the company replaced the laptop, we were allowed to keep the old, we use very occasionally. Unfortunately, the laptop has recently experienced a failure total and irrecoverable from the original hard drive, which was not a huge setback because there was no essential data there.

  In any case, I have from a compatible spare hard drive - a Hitachi 30 GB ATA-5 / IDE 2.5 "9.5 mm 4200 RPM, Pt not ' DK23CA-30F - and mounted, but as the hard disk is not formatted the laptop does not see it is there. As I said earlier, the laptop was provided by the employer, so we are not in possession of any recovery disks Toshiba or Windows that may have been provided, the laptop was originally running Windows 98 Second edition, and the sticker detailing the product key is always on the underside.

  I approached one of the suppliers of services of Toshiba for help and they directed me to Toshiba.
  Toshiba says that the laptop is no longer supported so they directed me to a service provider, I went around in circles.

  My question is, if I bought a copy of Windows 98 SE, or Windows XP and installed on the external floppy drive, which would also include a facility to format the hard drive? I think that in Windows 98 Second edition, there was a function of FDISK. I was able to access the pages of the BIOS after looking through advice given here, I can change the order of boot with no problems

  What I request, essentially, is that now, I have installed a new hard drive, what do I do next?

  > My question is, if I bought a copy of Windows 98 SE, or Windows XP and installed on the external floppy drive, which would also include a facility to format the hard drive?

  Yes, definitely Yes! The installation of Win98or of other versions of Windows like W2K or XP provides an option to format the HARD drive before installing the operating system.
  Simply boot from the bootable CD to get this feature.

• Update BIOS on Portege 3440CT.

  Hello!

  I have a Portege 3440CT with version 1.50 of bios.

  This version does not support large HARD drive so I thought I would update to the BIOS. (I do not know if the version 1.60 don't either, does anyone know?)

  When I try to run the program to update the bios on win2000, he says: 'Initial error', someone knows what is the cause?

  BIOS is downloaded from the Web Toshibas website.

  I have no floppy or CD-rom available.
  Have you tried the update on win98 and also in the BACK and he says ' this not available in v86 mode utility!

  Is it possible to place the BIOS on a small hard drive and boot from that?

  Ideas, anyone?

  Sorry CyB, but I really don't understand you. If you see the Toshiba support page you will find two updates to the BIOS. Two of them must be done using the floppy drive. So now I'm wondering why you try to do it under operating system running. Sorry, but this is really ridiculous.

  Toshiba offer two different BIOS updates. One is TRAD (must be done with the FDD) and WIN (can be done under WXP or now Vista). For old models of laptops there is no version of WIN.

  Is it possible to place the BIOS on a small hard drive and boot from that?

  As far as I know something like this is not possible and you can check eBay and get the FDD. You can get it for little money. It's really cheap.

• Portege 3440CT: update my O.S.

  I have a Toshiba - Portege 3440CT. My operating system is Windows 98, distributed by Toshiba. Now I need an update for my O.S. and I am looking for Windows 2000 or more. I need a help.
  Thank you

  Hi Octavian,

  You are very lucky. You re Portege 3440CT are supported for Windows 2000.
  The best way to install the new OS is to use the original recovery CD Toshiba. If you do not have one you need to install all of the individual drivers.

  On the next page, you can find the necessary drivers:

  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU

  Good bye

• Can't connect CD-ROM (portege 3440CT)

  My portege 3440CT still cannot connect my external CD-ROM (EagleTec-AND-RXD2600, PCMCIA).

  I want to reinstall my laptop but I can't do it without this CD I have download the boot disk to EagleTec web BACK but still do not work.

  Hello

  When you go to
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com - Support & Download - Download Driver you might find for your Portege 3440 (W98SE) a companion disk.

  This disc is also a startup disk and is responsible for the detection of external CD ROM

  Another suggestion is to go about this:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1881&MessageID=5098#5098
  You will find a discussion of the same problem. I hope this will help you.

  Good bye

• Too bright light on the screen of Portege 3440CT (running Windows 2000)

  Hello

  Do you know how to reduce the brightness on the screen of the laptop Portege 3440CT running Windows 2000?

  I have another question about the 3440CT Portege battery: battery charge never, I can't solve the problem, I left the power supply 8 days but battery levy at all! I had the same problem with a second battery?

  Any ideas?

  Kind regards
  Jerome

  Hi jnessi,

  as far as I know, you can change the brightness of the P3440 with the key Fn and F2! Agic otherwise your settings in the tool!

  If two batteries are as old as the portege, it may be that this batteries are too old!
  Otherwise your electronic of power supply is damaged, but I do not! ;-)

  Good bye

• Portege 7200 - HDD replacement/upgrade

  I want to upgrade my Portege 7200 with the standard 12 GB of HDD to a 60Gb, my questions are:-
  1. do I have updated BIOS?
  2 Will fit a standard 2.5 notebook HARD disk drive 9.5 mm inches (for example 60 GB 2.5 "IBM/Hitachi Travelstar 7 K 60 ATA100 7200 RPM, 8 MB)
  3. is special caddies or cable required.
  4. someone at - it instructions or is simple.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Hello.

  regarding your first question:
  BIOS update is useful, but I don't know how much GB the most recent BIOS for P7200 can handle! Try a test!
  2. normally a 2.5 inch HDD fit. I don't know who the old we have size, but you can compare it with the OE ew!
  3. no
  4. normally the change of HARD drive is not difficult. The problem is "the BIOS detects the new HARD drive and the right size." But this only experience could help you!

  Bye Bob

• Portege R100 and HDD upgrade

  Hello

  I have a Portege R100 and I want to upgrade the 40 GB HARD disk. What is the highest size that I could upgrade using Toshiba or not Toshiba HDD?
  There are 1.8 "SSD? What would be the best way to update?

  Thank you
  Romeo

  I have an old Portege 2000 and it's almost the same specifications your one, but my has been delivered with 20 GB of HARD drive. I've updated it with 60 GB and it works perfectly.
  I can understand your wishes on the HARD drive upgrade, but I recommend you to be a little more realistic and spend it is logical and understandable for this older model laptop.

  So I can confirm that 60 GB HARD drive will be working well. Maybe you can use the HARD disk with more capacity, but Toshiba is now your Portege with 40 GB max. What you can do is to contact the nearest Toshiba authorized maintainer and ask them if they have more experiences with the hardware upgrade on this laptop.

  To be honest, this laptop is not designed for multimedia stuff and in fact 60 GB HARD drive is quite enough for the installation of applications and for the registration of all the important things like maybe a few videos, photos and office documents.

  What you want to do with this laptop?

• The Portege 7140 (HDD, memory) upgrade

  Hello
  I recently bought a second hand Portege through eBay. I did a little research and I feel that the 7140 has a Bay memory expansion in which I can put a stick of memory of 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, or 256 MB. Toshiba sells only a maximum of 128 MB, but Kingston sells a key of 256 MB for laptop. The 256 MB will work fine?

  Second question - can stick any disk drive 2.5 "EIDE in the laptop? Is there a technical specification somewhere that lists the BIOS revision against the sizes of drive support?

  Last question - I have not actually received the laptop again and read the pdf data sheet it seems as if she isn't an internel floppy drive? If this is correct, the only way I'll be able to upgrade the bios is through the windows, is this correct? The only problem, if this is the case, it's that I use Linux not Windows. I might have to buy an external floppy drive.

  In any case thank you for any help or suggestions anyone may have.

  Jon

  Hi Spinksi,

  Colleague of mine has the same machine at home. He put 256 MB of RAM and it works fine. Its RAM is manufactured by Toshiba. You can also use RAM Kingston.

  There's also a 20-GB HARD drive. It works fine. Before changing do updating BIOS HARD drive. You can find the latest Version on http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin under download BIOS. You'll find Toshiba BIOS update Description. Read it before you continue. It is very important.

  So I know we're no sort of spec where you can find data on the BIOS and disk sizes.

  Answer to your last question is: you're right. Portege had no floppy drive, and you need to update the BIOS. But I'm sure you can find cheap one by ebay.

  Good bye

• Upgrade HD on Portege 3440CT

  I have improved my portege 3440 hard disk for a Samsung 40 MB hard disk, and now when I try to install Windows XP, I always get a blue screen saying that it has detected a problem.

  Technical information:
  STOP: 0X0000007B (0XFAF7B640, 0XC0000034, 0 0000000 X, 0 X 0000000)

  I do a new install of a cdrom Freecom external pcmcia card.
  I get the blue screen after installation load device files and the message "Setup starts windows" appears in the line at the bottom of the screen.
  Any body can help me solve this problem?

  Hello

  This is the first list of emergency assistance:

  How do I resolve the error "Stop 0x0000007B" in Windows XP

  SUMMARY
  Step by step article describes how to troubleshoot error messages "Stop 0x0000007B" in Windows XP. This article describes the problems that can cause this Stop error, including viruses of boot and driver of device or hardware issues problems area.

  If you cannot resolve the problem after reviewing these issues, use the General troubleshooting steps that appear at the end of the article.

  INTRODUCTION
  When you start your computer, you may receive one of the following error messages:
  STOP: 0x0000007B (parameter1, parameter 2, parameter3, parameter4) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
  Setup encountered a fatal error that prevents it to continue.

  Contact your product support representative. The following State help diagnose the problem.

  (0 x 0, 4 x 1, 0, 0)

  Setup cannot continue. Turn off or restart your computer now.

  You may also receive an error message "Stop 0x0000007B" during Windows XP installation when Setup restarts during the installation process.

  When you receive a Stop error message while the installation program is running, you receive the second error message. To resolve this problem, read the following four sections to determine if one of the issues apply to you.

  If none of the questions apply to you, use the following general troubleshooting steps at the end of the article.

  Boot sector virus
  You may receive an error message "Stop 0x0000007B" If your computer is infected with a boot sector virus.

  Search your computer for viruses. If you find a virus, also check the diskettes for viruses before you use them again.

  Microsoft provides no software that can detect or remove computer viruses. If you suspect or confirm that your computer is infected with a virus, obtain current antivirus software.

  For a list of antivirus software manufacturers, click the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 49500 (list of Antivirus software vendors)

  Note You may need to use more than one brand of antivirus software to detect and remove various viruses.

  Important
  If your computer has been infected, it may be open to other forms of attacks. We recommend that you rebuild infected Internet servers by following the guidelines that are published on the CERT Web site. Connected to the Internet servers are servers that function without a firewall or other protection. It is also a good idea to rebuild any other computers that are at risk because of their proximity to infected computers before that you put them into service.

  If a virus has infected your Windows XP computer and a virus-detection program cannot remove the virus and repair the system, you must repartition and format your hard disk and reinstall Windows XP.
  For more information on partitioning and formatting a hard drive with Windows XP Click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 313348 (how to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP)

  For more information on how to help protect the boot sector of viruses in Windows XP, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 122221 (how to protect the boot sector of viruses in windows)

  Device driver issues
  You may receive an error message "Stop 0x0000007B" in the following scenarios:
  A device driver that your computer boot controller needs is not configured to start during the startup process.
  A device driver that needs your computer startup controller is damaged.
  Information in the Windows XP registry (information related to the way in which device drivers load during startup) is corrupted.

  Windows XP requires a miniport driver communicate with the hard drive controller that is used to start your computer.
  If Windows XP does not have a device driver for your controller or Windows XP is equipped with a damaged or incompatible driver, you must replace the driver with a valid copy that is compatible with your controller and Windows XP.

  During the first phase of the Windows XP installation, Setup displays the following message is displayed at the bottom of the screen:
  Press F6 if you need to install a third-party RAID or SCSI driver.
  Press F6, and then follow the instructions to install a device driver from your Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) mass storage.
  For more information about using F6 to load an OEM device driver to support, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 314859 (limited OEM driver support is available with F6 during Windows XP Setup)

  To determine if your hard disk controller is compatible with Windows XP and to obtain information about drivers that are included on the Windows XP CD or available for download, see the last Windows XP compatibility (material) list.
  For more information on the latest Microsoft Windows XP HCL, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 314062 (the latest Windows XP hardware compatibility list)

  If your hard disk controller is not listed on the HCL, contact the manufacturer of your computer, System Board, or hard drive controller for more information on the availability of a driver.
  Microsoft does not guarantee that a resolution is available for no HCL HCL. For more information, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 315239 (support policy Microsoft for hardware that does not appear in the Windows HCL list)

  If the system in the Windows XP registry hive is corrupted, Windows XP is maybe not able to load the miniport device driver that requires that the controller to start. To resolve this issue, restore a backup of the registry. For more information about restoring a registry backup, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 307545 (how to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP startup)

  Hardware problems
  You may receive an error message "Stop 0x0000007B" If there is a resource conflict between the boot controller and another controller or between SCSI devices. You can also receive this Stop error message if drive translation is not being performed or if drive translation has been changed. To resolve this problem:
  1. If an IRQ address or i/o port conflict exists between your boot controller and another controller, Windows XP stops responding (hangs) or displays an error message "Stop 0x0000007B" If you have recently added new hardware, remove the new hardware or reconfigure it so that it is not incompatible with any installed controller resources.
  2. If you are using a SCSI drive, check the SCSI chain for correct end. Remove any unused SCSI devices or make sure that each unique SCSI ID.
  3. ensure that this drive translation is turned on (if necessary) and that it has not been changed. For example, if you have recently changed the controller, this problem may occur. For more information about this issue, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  314082 you receive a Stop error 0x0000007b after you move the Windows XP system disk to another computer

  Other questions
  Other possible causes of an error message "Stop 0x0000007B" include:
  The boot volume is corrupted and cannot be initiated by Windows XP. If the file system is corrupted and Windows XP cannot initialize the volume to start during the startup process, move the drive to another computer that is running Windows XP and run the command chkdsk on drive or try to create a parallel installation of Windows XP on the drive (in a separate folder). The Windows XP Setup program checks the integrity of the volume before it copies the files, and it can solve some problems in the process.
  You install Windows XP on a mirrored boot partition that was created by Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Windows XP does not support the Ftdisk of Windows NT 4.0 volume sets. If you are running Microsoft Windows 2000, you must convert all Ftdisk volume sets to dynamic volumes before you upgrade to Windows XP. If you run Windows NT 4.0, break any mirrors and back up the data on tape, RAID5, or extended volume sets before you upgrade to Windows XP. Games Ftdisk may not be available after the upgrade.

  General troubleshooting
  If none of the issues that have been described in this article apply to you, use the following general troubleshooting steps:

  1. If you receive one of these errors during the installation of Windows XP, update the computer BIOS or obtain Windows XP drivers for your hard drive controller (with the manufacturer of your computer, System Board, or hard disk controller) or do both. For more information about how to update the BIOS of your computer or obtain Windows XP drivers, contact the manufacturer of your computer. For more information about the availability of drivers, see the device driver issues section in this article.

  Note: If Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 has been installed previously on a mirrored boot partition, see the section other issues in this article.

  2. use the known last good Configuration feature. This can solve the problem if you recently installed an incompatible device for your boot controller driver. For more information on using the feature last good known Configuration, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  307852 how to start your computer by using last good known Windows XP Configuration

  3. use the repair option with Windows XP Setup. For more information about repairing Windows XP by using the Setup program, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 315341 How to perform an upgrade on place (reinstallation) of Windows XP

  4 restore a backup of the registry. For more information about restoring a registry backup, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  307545 How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP startup.

  Good bye

• Portege R700 - 15U HDD upgrade to SSD using recovery media

  Hello

  The installed HARD disk was 320, he developed surface errors.

  I decided that I would upgrade to an SSD. I got a 64 GB m4.

  I swapped the drives and booted from the recovery DVD. He gave an installation option. Selected, then it opens a command prompt where it starts to partition the drive, everything ok, until it copies the files. It errors with "CRC error or HARD drive.

  It is, with the resumption of Toshiba, there is more than 64 GB? How I choose partition sizes?

  Thank you
  Danny

  Post edited by: dannix

  Hey Buddy,

  And now your problem is solved or how to understand your second assignment?

  Is that recovery disk can also restore the factory settings on another SSD or HARD disk. There is no problem and 64 GB should be enough.

  These CRC errors could be linked to the SSD itself have you looked for an update of the firmware on the page of manufacturing SSD?
  Have you updated the BIOS?

• Portege M400 HDD - password and drive upgrade questions

  1. How can I change the hard drive password? the Toshiba utilities allow me to change the password of the BIOS but not the hard drive password

  2. If a secondary hard drive is mounted, it is possible to run the DVD writer as an external Bay? y at - it a connector / converter available?

  3. If Toshiba RAID mirroring is enabled, this speed of disk read time? for example reading speeds could theoretically be doubled by interlacing readings on the two disks - what is the difference of real world performance?

  4. are there restrictions on the internal hard drive?
  I bought a new hard drive from Toshiba (MK1234GSX / 120 GB) and mounted in secondary drive Bay, it works, I cloned the existing overall hard drive and it is even possible to boot from the secondary drive and see both drives.
  However if I replace the internal drive with the new drive, I can see the drives in the bios, but blue-screens of windows at startup: error seems to be that windows does not find the disk...

  When I add the original disk to the secondary drive Bay and start since I also can't get windows to recognize the new drive.
  This doesn't seem to be a simple problem of windows, because windows is happy to start on the new drive in the high Bay, so I ask if there is some restrictions at the end of Windows...

  5 Why have saved my Portege M400 website it says: "sorry, but this product is not available in your region."

  Thanks for any advice,
  Jonathan

  1.) as far as I know the HARD drive password can be changed in the BIOS
  But beware, if you forget or type the HARD drive HARD drive password will be locked and you will not be able to access the HARD disk. In this case, the HD is not more usable.

  (2.) the Ultra Slim bay is a single drive bay that welcomes the reader of CD/DVD or a secondary HARD disk.
  The extension utility from Toshiba Mobile allows the insertion of hot of these modules.
  I found this info in the user manual and following modules can be installed in the Bay ultra slim:
  -Ultra Slim adapter HARD drive Bay: this will allow you to install a HARD drive in option
  -Kit ultra Slim bay DVD-ROM drive or DVD super multi drive kit
  -Disk (SATA) HARD drive kit
  The adapters you will need to order of the ASP

  (3.) I did not notice any differences in speed reading while the RAID has been enabled or disabled. (I used the Qosmio G20 with RAID)

  4.) Please check the manual for compatible HARD drive sizes!

  5.) maybe the M400 is not available in your country or region. But it s only my suggestion

• HDD Upgrade SSD - Portege R30 is not booting

  Hello

  Just bought a R30 and a very cheap OCZ SSD 240 GB, I'm trying to replace the HARD drive in the Toshiba with the SSD. I created the Toshiba Recovery discs and inserted the disc and the process of recovery from the DVD.

  When I try to start the laptop, I get "insert system disk and press a key to continue the error."

  I disabled the secure boot, I; ve switched in MSC mode, I checked the SSD, I can't get the R30 to recognize the new SSD.

  Any help or suggestion?

  Just bought a R30 and a very cheap 240 GB SSD OCZ
  I can't get the R30 to recognize the new SSD

  The SSD is recognized by the BIOS?
  The SSD drive should be visible on the first page of BIOS... if its is not visible, the BIOS does not see the SSD...
  Why? Mainly because of compatibility issues...

  In this case you don't have a lot of options; the SSD drive needs to be replaced by another which would be compatible... Unfortunately, there is no details what SSD drive would be compatible at 100% and that's why you need to check on your own hand...

  If you have found a good job, please share the details here in the community... might be interesting for other members...