Portege R100 - BIOS can't see 1.8 inch 2 GB PCMCIA HDD

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• Portege R100 - I can reinstall Windows XP Home edition with USB floppy & USB key?

  I recently damaged my R100 thanks to a virus attack. Despite late cleaning things up with Norton, it will now very slowly and I think that the only way forward is through a total reinstall XP.

  I have the original recovery CD and a USB floppy drive but not a PCMIA CD-ROM. As luck would have my USB CDRom is broken. How can I get out of this situation? I'm about to throw an old desk and would be happy to use the XP retail on the R100, if necessary. It is also possible to start the format & install process from a startup disk, and then most of the OS from a USB - having previously filled with copies of the contents of the CD? Desperate people make desperate methods!

  I've read a few other discussions on recovery XP issues but they are not entirely coincident with my situation. Any help on this front would be very welcome.

  Thanks in advance.

  If you can get the installation on the R100 HARD disk files using a FAT32 partition, you can install Windows from the HARD drive after booting from a bootable MS-DOS floppy. (MSDOS can not see NTFS drives).

  You can use a 1.8 "adapter HARD USB drive to copy the installation files on the disk HARD R100 from another PC. The adapter would be cheap.

• BIOS does not see SSD - Dell Latitude D630

  Hello

  I have been using the old, but still quite fast Dell D630. Lately, I decided to replace the HDD with SSD - SP800 Adata first, and the Bios can't see it.

  I installed the latest version of the Bios, tried changing the settings to AHCI, etc... but without any effect. Can anyone help?

  I checked the SSD in my stationary computer and it works.

  Thank you

  Hi caton17,

  I suggest you to check if the SSD is installed in the drive Bay and the dimensions of the SSD. Reinstall the drive and check if it is detected in the BIOS.

• Portege R100: Can't see dvd external drive

  I just installed a new internal 40 GB hard drive in my portege r100, I partitioned the drive and formatted. I also installed the latest version of the bios (I think it is 1.6) but I can not now install XP to dvd because the portege r100 do not see the dvd drive external usb which I think is a LITE-ON 8 x

  Any suggestions?

  Using the supplied with the machine recovery CD? Also the machine will only start on a TOSHIBA USB dvd player. If it is not made by Toshiba, you will not be able to boot from it. Sorry

• Update BIOS Portege R100

  Hi all!

  I want to update the bios of my Portege R100, I downloaded this trought this site:

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

  unzipped and started install2.exe but I receaved this error:

  "* [Error] BIOS update is failed. "BIOS is not able, updated on this configuration."

  Windows xp sp2
  No installed external device

  Can someone help me?

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can download another version of the same-update bios here:

  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/TAIS/Su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soID=1153942&MOID=385411&RPN=P PR10U

  This file contains more information on the execution of the update, see the readme file
  You can do an update directly in XP or make a bootable floppy or bootable CD

  If the "live update" in XP does not work, you will need at least a key-USB-fdd, most of them is easily recognized by the bios (hold F12 during startup and choose the fdd)

• Portege R100 and Linux - function keys not working do not and the latest version of the BIOS?

  Hello world

  I have a Portege R100 (PPR10L-13G10P). I am trying to install Linux and when you try to access function keys (F6) the computer does not allow me to... no idea why?

  Also, what is the latest version of BIOS for this computer? And where it can be downloaded?

  Thanks in advance!

  Terrence

  Hello

  At first, I must say that Toshiba doesn't support Linux in general if you are alone with this problem.
  I hope that someone will be able to help you a bit.
  If you want to discover the latest version of the BIOS, just enter the BIOS settings and check it out.
  BIOS version latest won't help you at all, so my opinion is that you shouldn't change anything.

  Anyway, the bio download page is - http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_bios.jsp

  The feature keys F is supported by special tool Windows and it only works on Windows.

• Can I use display of Portege 2000 or M100 on Portege R100?

  Well, I have a Portege R100 with a broken screen I want to fix it. And I have a Portege 2000 and a M100 with screen work.

  It will fit on my R100? They look alike!
  Thank you fo of clues!

  Yes you can.

  These notebooks, the Portege 2000, Portege M100 and Portege R100, use the same 12.1 "1024 x 768 TFT color.
  I put t see problems with the replacement and fitting element

• Portege R100 - can I configure it to WPA/WPA2?

  My Portege R100 is an Intel (r) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter, which is configurable for WEP only. Can someone tell me if I can improve it so that it is configurable for WPA/WPA2, please?

  Thank you.
  Phil

  Hello

  I checked the specifications of this WLAN card on the Intel site and it seems that this cap card WLAN key be configured for WPA.

  In any case, is that you've updated the driver for the WIRELESS network and the BIOS card? Two updates that you can find on the Toshiba site.

• NB100 - can't see the SD card in the BIOS

  Anyone know why I can't see my 16 GB SD card in the bios?
  It loads up as sdb1 when the computer is started, if it is recognized as a hard drive.

  Have discovered that it is the standard for many of the Atom based Netbooks. Still don't know why

• Can I use restore with disk CD external non-Toshiba - Portege R100?

  Hello

  I'm trying to recover a Portege R100. Y at - it another way to do it rather than using a player "Recommended Toshiba", I already have three external drives and don't really see any point in buying another.

  Any help would be appreciated

  Nick

  Hello

  I think that this should be possible. I mean, why not? Why toshiba reduce to their own records?

  Just use one of your hard drives external and gives maybe a little report how it worked.

  Welcome them

• Portege R100: update BIOS - unauthorized user

  Hello.
  I am trying to update the BIOS of my newly purchased Portege R100, but flea market.
  I installed the driver of common Modules after it failed the first time, but now when the BIOS update starts I get an error window pop up saying "user is not authorized to update BIOS. Where do I change this?

  I only am not particularly computer savvy so please be gentle with me.

  Jim

  Hello Jim

  Is there a special reason for update you BIOS? Did you clean OS install?

• Seagate drive in the BIOS but can't see it in the file manager

  Earlier this week, I installed a Solid State Drive as my boot drive. It works very well. I want to use 2 TB Seagate that came with my Inspiron 3847 as backup devices (slave) and I also want to take 10 Windows out of it. I can see the drive in device (drive 1) Manager and in the BIOS (SATA 2), but I can't see it in the file manager so I can reformat the drive. This particular model (ST2000DM001-1ER64) has no jumpers to set it as a slave drive. Seagate said it is automatic. I am stuck as to how I solve this problem. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

  Hi ssd user,.

  Happy new year!

  There is no such thing as master or slave with SATA drives. Try to go to disk management, search your drive and check if a drive letter has been attributed to it. I suspect that you must select a drive letter, then it should appear in the file Explorer.

• Can't see bios

  Hi all

  Help, please!

  I think that I have problems with the PCI Express card, I went into the BIOS and chose the on the graphics of the disabled the option PCI card. Now when I boot I just get a blank screen to watch! I don't remember exactly what I did because I can't see the BIOS screen.

  My PC is HP Media Center m7000 m7755UK version. CZX707MRSJ S/N, running VISTA

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Hello

  Your PC is listed as having a 300W Power Supply Unit, which does not limit the choices a bit.  However the Nvidia GT440 specifications would be Ok with this and an example of the map is available here.

  The only thing that I would recommend when ordering this device or a similar card is just to check with the retailer that the card is suitable for a PC with a power of 300W specifications vary.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Portege R100 does not start

  Can someone help me please. My Portege R100 does not start, when I turn the following text appears: in touch with tomorrow toshiba. After a few seconds a black screen with a blinking cursor on the left side of the screen.

  Thank you very much

  Hi Rehana,

  The Toshiba screen you will see first is the initial start screen is displayed while loading the BIOS. Once the BIOS has completed its process of loading, the system tries to boot the operating system and it is at this point that you have found the black screen with the blinking cursor in the upper left.

  Unfortunately, this indicates usually that the laptop can not load the operating system from the hard drive, or because the hard disk itself has not the contents have been damaged somehow.

  You might try to charge your laptop in 'safe' mode (press F8 during the initial loading of the BIOS) or you can try to boot your laptop from a bootable CD/DVD and hard drive.

  Finally, you can try to re - install your OS from the recovery CD.

  Kind regards

• Portege R100 install XP on the replacement drive

  Help, please

  My hard drive in my R100 went bad and I replaced it and it became a nightmare to install XP.

  I spent 2 days on this subject, and I can't break! I have the original Toshiba USB floppy drive that can be accessed by cell phone and a desktop USB external CD/DVD drive mounted in a USB chassis. It's the Sony DRU - 540A. I tried everything on this forum and it does not work.

  I copied the I386 folder in the C: / once I'd fdisk and formatted it and when windows was running from the CD it came to try to find the asms file. When I run the Portege R100 Recovery Bootdisk V1.1.zip he can see my Cd/DVD drive however the virtual D: it creates, causing the PC to freeze when I run Windows NT.

  Please help because it's pretty darn painful!

  Thanks Brendan

  Why would you copy the files from the CD to your HARD drive? To install an operating system, in your case Windows XP just boot from the CD and follow the instructions given by the installation routine.

  You can change the priority of booting into the BIOS settings, or by pressing the C key laptop start upward.