Portege M300 - Ubuntu, bootmgr error

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• Cannot read DVD on flea market Portege M300

  Hello.

  I wonder if someone can help me. I bought an flea market portege M300 and it's fine - however I could not create recovery discs that the option was not on the section Protect and Fix on Toshiba Assist.
  Now, I can't read the DVD.

  I guess that sort of resettlement was made but not with the toshiba recovery discs and so I can see I can play DVD CD or burn CDs. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do. Toshiba send me a recovery disc for the machine and so I was wondering if they would be on these discs and if I should wait until they arrive.

  Thank you, best regards,.

  Rachel

  Hello

  Does the drive support the function of burning?

  You can try to enter in the properties of the drive and select the recording tab.
  The option activate write to this drive must be marked.

  On the Toshiba Recovery CD, you will find an image with preinstalled operating system and all the Toshiba drivers needed and utility.
  If you want to watch DVDs if you need special software such as WinDVD or PowerDVD.
  These are applications of DVD player. I guess the WinDVD must be preinstalled on the image.
  To burn a CD s, you are also burning software. I advise to use a Nero.
  For me this is one of the best burning applications.

  You should try using different media. You should know that not all media are compatible and supported.

  You bought this laptop as a second hand unit, so it is possible that the drive is bad. Sometimes, if the drive cannot burn or read some of the media due to the error of calibration of lens. In this case there are not a lot to do to replace the drive.

• Portege M300 - update Bios without battery

  Hello

  Currently, I am trying to fix a problem that I have with my laptop (Portege M300) of the battery.
  I have been informed that the bios update should solve this problem, but when I try to update I get error "the AC adapter is not connected, or battery power is not sufficient.

  Now, the power adapter is connected and works well, but the battery is on 4% of costs...
  This is the exact reason, I'm updating the bios!

  Does anyone know how I'm supposed to solve this problem?

  Thanks in advance,
  Chris H

  Hello

  I m not very good if the update of the BIOS might help you what it s a battery problem
  Have you noticed this problem on the first day of purchase?
  I mean if this issue was not present the same using BIOS in the past, then it wouldn't be a matter of BIOS but material, possibly a battery

  I think that the battery needs to be checked.

• Portege M300 - replacement of HARD drive failed

  Dear all,

  I have a Portege M300 I bought around 3 or 4 years and I am very happy with and without any problems. The laptop came originally with a 60GB and I wanted to upgrade to one with greater capacity, a 160 GB! My laptop is about 1.2 GB of Ram and runs on windows XP SP3.

  I recently bought a Samsung HD-160 (160GB) which should be compatible with my laptop. After installing from scratch and used for about 2 weeks, the computer suddenly stopped. HARD drive stopped spinning and a #0 ERROR came when I tried to restart. There was NO WAY to drive HARD turn again so I contacted Samsung and they replace. The HARD drive has a slight smell of burnt component but very light.
  I replaced the HDD failed with a 2nd replacement and to my disbelief, the SAME THING happened again just after 3 hours of use! I contacted Samsung and once more they will send replace me, with the same type of hard disk. I tried to get explanations of Toshiba and Samsung for why this happens, but so far I have no explanation.
  Without hesitation, I gave my original 60 GB Toshiba drive who was thankfully still my documents and the laptop is happy again touch wood.

  What I am doing wrong? can someone help me please go to the bottom of this so I do not experience the same problem with my 3rd replacement? I wish I had a bigger hard drive on my laptop and I think all of them must be compatible. I buy one that should be compatible with my Portege M300. Both are valued at 5 v

  I have to add to what has just occurred to me now that I have installed all the Toshiba original programs too on my Samsung HDD out of Windows XP, including the utility that protects the disk in case of Vibrations. This could be the problem by any chance? This utility only for Toshiba's brand HARD drive? Any ideas or other suggestions on this issue please?

  Thank you very much for your attention.

  Carmine

  Portege M300 is pretty old laptop and maybe you should be careful with these upgrades.
  According to specification for laptop, your laptop can handle with 100 GB hard drives, but I'm sure you can use 120 GB as well.

  Then maybe you should try to upgrade the disk with 120 GB of HARD drive to see if everything will be OK. I think also 120 GB is enough and you have enough free space for the data backup.
  What do you think about this?

• Driver Win2K for Portege M300

  I am running Windows 2000 SP4 on my Portege M300:

  I downloaded the win2k driver Sigmatel ac97 on the Toshiba site, but it will fail to install:

  error: SIGMATEL_ERROR_UpdateDriverForPnPDevices has not been found.

  Other ideas that... install XP?

  Hello

  I put t know how you installed the drivers but I found an installation on the Toshiba site statement. It is very important that you need to install drivers in the correct order. Utility of common modules and chipset are very important.

  Please check.

• Portege M300: Creating dualboot (two time Windows XP Pro)

  Hello

  just curious, if you have experience with the creation of dual-boot Windows XP on M300. (The reason is that I need second OS to start immediately if one goes down, what happened to me).

  I failed to create stable systems. There is no problem to install separately on 2 partitions (I am aware that the BIOS has limit of 128 GB limit, so that they are 12 and 221 GB large, on the 250 GB drive). But after a couple of reboots, second partition starts to hang on the blue screen, or said "Missing Hal.dll" and so on.

  I reinstalled like 15 times, tried different configurations, modified boot.ini, code mbr, windows, partitions NTFS or FAT32, managers start Recovery console, recover from Toshiba CD, installed since I386 with the windows key, but the problem is that second installation of windows finally just 2 months maximum. And then - «lack \system32\DRIVERS\psi.sys, missing \system32\DRIVERS\system missing \system\DRIVERS\hal.dll...» »

  Any suggestion is welcome.

  Hello

  AFAIK the Portege M300 supports IDE ATA 6 HDD interface.
  Since this interface supports 48-bit LBA, you should be able to serve a larger sizes of 250 GB HARD drive.

  In any case, have you tried to create a small partition and reinstall the OS?
  Select this check box.

  Also I discovered that this laptop supports an internal memory.
  Looks like there are 256 MB internal memory...

  However, I searched and bit for similar problems and the error messages like:
  missing hal.dll missing \system32\DRIVERS\system or missing \system32\DRIVERS\psi.sys is mainly related to a hardware problem. might be a faulty HARD drive or defective memory causes questions too.

  I think of areas of defective HARD drive or something like that...

• Portege M300: FN Key - how to reinstall the hot key functions?

  Hi people,
  I admit that I made a mistake and in regedit that I cancelled the HOTKEY function called something like "THOTKEY", thinking it was s spyware or a worm... In any case, I tried to download support toshiba driver to reinstall the function and do my FN + xx function working again... But I don't the have not yet found... do you have any suggestions?

  In addition, whenever I connect related Windows me a TOUCHED error saying it can't find this THOTKEY... I guess they are related... Ah Smart...

  Without this FN now I can't send my pc sleep, or change the brightness or... disable touchpad... any idea?

  Thanks for help

  Marco

  PS: I have a PORTEGE M300.

  Hello

  I assume you are using Windows XP.
  Well, the simplest is to roll back the OS to the beginning.
  In my opinion it should work.

  But if not, if you need to install the drivers. AFAIK tools & utilities CD provided with the device. Check for the drivers.

• 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: 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...
  Welcome them

• 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 - 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

• 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