Portege M300: Format SD card - 1 GB instead of 2 GB problem

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• Portege M300 - question: How can I format the HARD drive?

  Hello

  I saw Toshiba Portege M300 and try to format my laptop. When I try to use the CD to boot (DVD release) at the start, but I have the "CD/DVD" option, it s not poster not options 'formatting of disks', instead it goes to the login window. I have windows XP OS in my laptop.

  I don't know why this problem is coming. Please let me know the possibility of fixing this issue, or the option in the form of my laptop without recovery DVD.

  Thanks in advance for your time and reply.

  Thank you
  Saran

  Hello

  Maybe the internal CD/DVD drive cannot handle the recovery disc
  There are several reasons for this issue could be a dirty laser or lens something wrong with the disc of recovery or other reason

  You are able to start using other bootable discs like original CD bootable CD in MS Windows or linux?

  You could this workaround is short:
  Copy the recovery CD (burn on another CD) and then try to start the laptop using the recovery disc copied.

  Maybe it will work

• Re: Portege M300: Wifi card which is installed

  Hello, I rebooted my Portege M300 and I went to the page of the drivers for the m300.
  But it gives you an ateros... However you spell pilot...

  But I'm sure it was a processor intel before I reloded he...

  Pls look at the download page and it says the thing, Yes, when you click on it it goes to OF Tosh and there is a choice of Intel... but what are we used Atheros.

  And please when replying to tell me how you just know?
  Can I network driver and software management or just the driver.

  All the best

  Mike

  Hello

  Several series of laptops are equipped with different devices.
  This means that a Portege M300 laptop could be equipped with two different WLan cards; Atheros card or Intel WLan!

  Please check the bottom of the unit. There you should find a label with the WLan card part number! Then you could search the internet for this part number and then you should get the right WLan card details ;)

  easy ;)

• Recovery disk to a partition on Portege M300

  Hello

  I reinstalled my xp win since another cd of xp on portege m300 laptop and does not burn a recovery disk hard of the with windows that provided thoshiba computer, with his comments today that you burn your own backup instead of they send you an original cd of win xp. I want a cd backup/recovery cd now and I see that they compartmentalized (or what his name) a separate 2, 5 GB hd with the name "HDDRECOVERY".

  This resulted in my windows has installed on E: cause it's a 2, 5 GB partioned HDspace C: windows called and I could choose E: to install win xp and I didn't erase the siloed 2, 5 GB of space. I toughed I somehow could access this file of 5 GB HD 2, but it dosen´t show in 'my conputer' in the windows disk management tools not. You can't do anything in this manegmant tool so that it can show in "my computer". I would like to access this area and burn this HDDRecoveryfile so I can get my respective windows that followed when I bought the computer from the win xp serial that is provided under this cumputer did not work with my new cd of win xp.

  PS. How to install windows on C: If the installer of windows think that c is the 2, 5 GB partioned file? I don't want to delete it.

  Hello Andrew

  The situation with the Portege M300 is a bit complicated, but I'll try to explain. Portege M300 (I believe only in Germany) is delivered without Recovery DVD and also Tools & Utilities CD. The two of them can be created by the user, but only if the appliance is preinstalled at the factory. The unit of the factory preinstalled with original image contains a tool called Recovery Disc Creator. With this tool, you can create the two media. There is no way to do it without this tool.

  Unfortunately this tool you can not find on the Toshiba download page. Because of this, you can keep that partition on the HARD drive but it has no sense at all. You have your own OS preinstalled without Recovery Disc Creator.

  There are two solutions:
  1. you can format entire HARD drive, create clean partitions and install own OS using all things, that you can find on the Toshiba download page.
  2 contact authorized please partner in your country. They may try to order the original DVD of recovery for you. If this recovery DVDs is not available the service partner can make factory settings again but with costs.

  That s all I know Portege M300 and preinstalled software. If you have any other questions, please write again.

  Good luck!

• Portege M300 CD power drive power

  Hello.

  I use Portege M300 and had to format my HARD drive and installed Win Xp professional. Downloaded all the drivers and utilities of the Web from Toshiba's site, but can not now use FN + Tab, put it drive optical power. It seems not to be like this utility on your web site.
  How can I make it work again?

  Thank you for your replies,

  Kala Mees.

  Hello

  You can use another FN key combination? Try to reinstall the Toshiba V4.30 utilities.

• On the Portege M800-11J SD card reader problems

  Hi all

  I hope that someone here will be able to help me with a problem. I have a new laptop Portege M800-11J and I try to use a 4 GB SD card in the embedded player. The laptop crashes and allow me to format the card or read. If I use a USB drive, it works without any problem.

  Through Google, I read that there may be problems with some drives and 4 GB cards.

  Anyone else has this problem or offer a solution? I did the driver regular re - installs etc.

  Thank you

  Adam

  What is an SD (FAT16)?

  Or is this a card SDHC (FAT32)?

  The M800 must be compatible with SDHC cards, so maybe it's a driver conflict. Or maybe the pins inside the drive is damaged and cause a short circuit.

  Have you updated the BIOS?

• No DHCP / wrong IP of open networks - Portege M300

  Hello

  IM using a Portege M300 with a built-in wlan card. I have w2k with sp 4 installed. My problem is that I can connect very often to open wlan points, but most of the time that my computer can't pick the right IP address or dhcp server. I've experienced this in many different places and now Im seeing this again in a network home. WEP is disabled, so is mac filtering and all other computers on the wireless network work just fine, but not my laptop. In this case, I checked the router and the ip address range is in the range 192, but my laptop contains an ip address that begins with 169.

  Does anyone have an idea what could be my problem?

  Sincerely

  Johan

  Hi Johan

  Believe me on this path is not easy to tell exactly what is happening in your case. The fact is that a lot of people have similar problems. Not because of Toshiba for laptop or same Portege M300, but because of the wireless card. It is known that card WiFi Intel 2200 B/g do some connection problems.

  Please check this page http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/pro2200bg/ Intel
  Maybe you will find something interesting.

• Is it possible to upgrade RAM in Portege M300

  Is it possible to increase the RAM in Portege M300 laptop?

  Hello

  Yes, it is possible.

  Especially this oldie came with 512 MB (2 x 256 MB) of RAM installed.
  It should be possible to extend the RAM 1024 MB (2 x 512 MB)

  I think that details could be found in the user manual that you can download on the Toshiba page:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/

• Portege M300-101 - How to access the recovery partition?

  Hello

  I have a laptop Portege M300-101 model PPM30E-00G019SP
  I have problems and need to re install the original operating system.
  There is a 2.5 MB partition where the laptop recovery system.

  But I have no way to access it.
  In addition to the documentation that there is software to access this partition, but is not installed.

  Could someone guide me and help?
  Thank you
  Jorge

  Hello

  If I remember well, you can install WXP again using two different methods:
  -Restoration of created media recovery do you have created following the advice in the manuals?
  -Restoration of the drive HARD recovery on page 69 you can find detailed instructions how to proceed.

  You wrote: there is a program to access this partition but is not installed.
  What program do you mean exactly?

• Portege M300 - Ubuntu, bootmgr error

  Hi guys,.

  I hope you can help, I spent 2 days reading similar posts, but nothing seems to work.

  I installed Ubuntu on an external hard drive (using my Vista machine). Can I boot Ubuntu from my Vista machine without any problem.

  However, I now want to use this hard drive Ubuntu in my new NetBook (for me). (Toshiba, Portege, M300). However when I install my Ubuntu HD in this machine I get the infamous error "bootmgr is missing". I REALLY hate this error now.

  So I did my research and give EACH of them thinking that I should use my Vista recovery DVDs for this problem. Why the hell do I need to use a Vista CD when it comes to pure Ubuntu installation?

  Can someone give me some ideas? Computers laptop Toshiba require Bootmgr (i.e. an installation of windows?)

  Please PLEASE help,
  Marc

  PS thanks in advance...

  You don't need a special boot manager, Linux should start very well after a successful installation.

  Did you delete all partitions on the HARD disk before you install Linux?

  It seems that the Windows boot sector is still installed.

• Portege M300: Is the protection of HARD drive only for the brand of Toshiba drives?

  Hello

  I am trying to upgrade my Portege M300 with a hard drive bigger, as seen on the Portege forum, I posted the thread after that two hard drives from samsung does not similarly, shortly after the installation of the new.

  I just want to know if the protection of Toshiba HARD drive utility is simply made for Toshiba hdd or if it can work on any other brands of hard drives of brand. As I say, I want to upgrade a 60 GB to 160 GB and 2 new hard drive failed. I've since updated my bios to the latest version and I also consider not to install this hard drive protection feature, just in case where it will cause problems once more with my 3rd HDD replacement of same nature.

  I appreciate any thoughts on this.
  Thank you very much
  C

  Hello

  Usually it s any manufacturer is.
  If the HARD disk supports the CHIP so it should be possible to use this HARD drive.
  The HARD disk protection tool verifies the parameters of the HARD disk.
  But the settings are configured by HDD manufacture then it might be possible that the HARD disk will not work if the tool would not choose the settings correctly.

• Help Portege M300 (OS) recovery required

  Hi, I had a Portege M300 who served me well as a student unforunately that gave up the hard drive. I have now bought a replacement drive and had hoped to run a restore cd but I cant find it (maybe I never had one for that.

  Can someone help me out here?

  Otherwise it seems that I have to buy an operating system for which will cost even more money

  Hello

  It s unplausible that no restore cd shipped with your machine. Your machine was not one of these glorious Vista/Xp machines with a HARD drive recovery.
  Thus, you can find better the CD because the only choice you have is

  -to pay for a new recovery by having an authorized partner
  -to pay for a Windows XP tablet edition and download all the drivers
  -pay nothing and try to work with linux
  -to pay nothing because you have found the CD

  So you can see your selection and there is not a lot. Take a handful of chance and prey that you will find the CD, otherwise, you will pay.

  SRY mate...
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• Portege M300-101 - every 30 min I get a BSOD

  I have a Portege M300-101 (Windows XP) and every 30 minutes I comes up with a blue screen with a text about 1 sec so I can't read it, then restarts and happen in 30 minutes

  Hello!

  It's not easy to say what are the causes of the problem, but as said Akuma, test the RAM with Memtest86.
  Download the image, burn it to a disc and start from it.

  Automatic restart, you can also disable in Windows.
  My computer-properties-Advanced online online => startup and recovery settings => remove the mark to restart automatically.

  Sometimes, this problem is caused by the HARD drive. You can test with the Test Drive for physical fitness.
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT

  Good bye

• Portege M300 - how to install driver LAN

  Hello

  I got a new hard drive put in my Portege M300 and managed to get the drivers all released on except the lan and a modem.
  I found the drivers here and make them, but which file do I use to install the application? ...
  I have one that says "PRO network driver uninstaller connections" but nothing obvious for amd installation... no files for directions...

  Any help appreciated.

  Thank you

  How to install the LAN driver?
  It is very easy, you can install it in the Device Manager.

  First of all, you need the correct LAN driver.
  You can find the Portege M300 on the Toshiba drivers European page driver-> * Archives *.

  After the LAN driver has been downloaded, you must unzip this package.
  Then go to Device Manager, select the unknown device (NIC) in the network adapters, select install or update the driver and follow the instructions on the screen.

  Welcome them

• Portege M300 fails to recognize HARD drive

  Last week, I replaced the hard drive on my laptop Toshiba Portege M300 to a larger drive. It worked very well for a coupe of days, but when I tried to plug in the hard drive of origin back in (to copy data on a network share, which I forgot to transfer to the new hard drive) he does not see the drive. I tried to set the new drive and he can't see it either.

  I tested the original and new hard drive on a different laptop and they work so I can't guess the willing Portege of a faulty ide controller or the ide cable. No matter which hard drive, I am attaching the trys to laptop to boot from the CD-ROM, ignores the hard drive and the NIC PXE trys. The bios indicates also theres no hard disk attached too.

  First of all, if the CD-ROM drive still work am I right in thinking the ide controller is still work?

  Secondly could someone suggest where I can buy an ide for a M300 cable because it is a ribbion printed circuit board which I have never seen elsewhere. I guess this is part of Toshiba custom?

  Hello

  I believe also that it is Toshiba custom component and it will be much better in the service partner contact in your country. AFAIK this Portege is very nice and expensive unit and you should not do it alone. If you have a hardware problem allow technicians to do it for you. Small mistake and you can just have big problem.

  Are you sure that you did not damage something?

  If you need addresses please check http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_gaspLocator.jsp?pf=true

  Good bye