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• Satellite Pro P300 - remove the HARD drive to make a backup?

  My P300 went to my local store to repair for a network card problem. I thought it was just a software problem or driver, so I wasn't worried that my machine is still under warranty. After investigation, they stated that they could not resolve the issue, so would be to reformat and reinstall the OS, they thought they should solve the problem.

  To my horror, I found that they had broken the seals of guarantee and open to the top of the machine. They claimed the only way to save the P300 before reformat it, is to remove the HARD drive!
  Is this true?
  (It turns out that a broken chip is to blame, but because they violated the warranty, Toshiba will not touch!)

  Can anyone say about this the removal of HD to support it please?

  Hey,.

  Normally it of not necessary to restore the factory settings with to remove the HARD drive but don t you worry about this. The laptop can still be opened from a service provider authorized without losing the warranty.

  I also put t know why they did, perhaps they have checked the material. It would be possible because they have professional diagnostic tools.

  But interesting to know whether or not your problem is now resolved?

• Portege 3490CT - how to remove the hard drive?

  Hello

  I have a problem with my Portege 3490CT. It is completely dead (won't start not or read from USB floppy to use recovery discs). I would like to remove the hard drive to try to recover the information about it. Can someone tell me how to get out? I already have access to it, but I don't want to damage it in progress...

  Thank you

  Hello PNVS

  You can check this page
  http://www.servj.com/PC/Note/hdinstall/

  Good bye

• How can I remove a hard drive from my computer? (not physically)

  Hello.

  I have problems with my internal hard drive.

  It is adding an extra and isn't the one with the operating system. It's pretty mucha disk storage.

  I have to remove it and try to replace it. I hope I don't have to re - install the operating system and I can get my new drive recognized under Windows XP. What should I do? Where can I do this? Which must be uninstalled or changed on XP somewhere?

  What are the steps? I'll replace it today and the need to know the details, because it is a return.

  Thank you.

  No, you don't have nothing to do with Device Manager. Or anything else.

  Once its removed it will disappear. Then once you install the new hard drive, go to disk management, and then format. So my computer can see it

  Only thing to complain, it is if you have been save files to it. Don't worry about this just change the recording folder. Programs have been installed on it tho? There you may as well uninstall them first

• Cannot physically remove the hard drive from the Pavilion dv4-1430us

  The disk hard origianal in this Pavilion dv4-1430us makes mechanical noises, so I will try to replace it with a new one.  I checked the owner's manual supplied with the dv4-1430us, and it gives these instructions (here condensed): 1) remove the power cord and disconnect the battery, 2) remove the hd plastic cover, 3) remove three screws of hard drive now the hd casing in place and 4) pull hard hd tab to the left then go out.

  The problems are: A) there is no hard drive to draw labels, and B) after you remove the three screws, can't do the hd if I push on it to move to the right or remove it from the left.  I don't want to use tools like screwdriver large flat blade or bars of little Crow because it seems like that would probably break something.  Does anyone know how to remove the hard drive of this particular model without breaking something?

  HaggisCat,

  Thanks for a very detailed and quick response.  It turns out the indications that I read in the manual, your statements and mine were all in line to exert a force on the hard drive in the direction indicated by the red arrow on your image.  (A picture is worth a thousand words and your supplied photo clarity that my summary of instructional text has not.)  I decided to take a picture of the entire hard drive in my dv4-1430us (see below) to show that there is no close tab Mylar pull, as there is on the photo you condition.   (The same gray metal tab that appears in your photo, but no mylar tab).

  

  Apparently my dv4-1430us had some differences at its Assembly of HD compared to yours.  As you can see, the structural elements that surround the HD are very similar to those of your photo, but there is no narrow mylar like in your photo tag.  There is a dark mylar or similar film plastic on top of my HD, and there is a triangle of silver color at the bottom right of this film that points in the same direction as your red arrow.  I tried lifting up the end of this film, mylar and pulling that direction (to the right in this picture), but a part of it (in the upper right corner of this photo) began to tear.  As the film seems to only be glued on the top edge of the caddy HD (also called frame or cage in some articles), I doubted that the show was strong enough to eliminate the stress of a closed winching.  A comrade who has put a video on YouTube showing this procedure also indicated that he had torn this layer of film when he first attempted to remove the HD.  Because I assume that the dark film has a purpose (static protection?)  I gave up shooting at the right edge of the film.

  However the consistency of the instructions in the manual, the instructions on this YouTube video and instructions in your answer on the direction in which the Assembly needed to move HD gave me the courage to put a force pushing the HD in the direction of your red arrow.  To do this, I placed the tip of a flat blade screwdriver large (blade about 5/16 "wide) at the points indicated at the ends of the two yellow arrows in my picture.  In these positions, the blade of screwdriver pushed against the HD box and not the hard drive itself.  Each of these two places, I gave him some very closed but controlled scrimmages, and HD finally moved in the direction of your red arrow as it is supposed to.  I then lifted all of the HD and replaced the HD without incident.

  The action drag the new HD in place was much easier that it was removing the original HD for the first time.  It was perhaps because of some hard rubber padding that has been placed on each side of the original HD assembly that makes for a very tight fit.

  I hope that this description is useful for others who do not have used mylar tab in their computers laptops dv4 and those whose HD assemblies are very tight in.  Thanks again for your quick response that gave me enough comfort to move forward.

• Conclusion removed the hard drive

  Our "old" laptop teacher at work will be used by students this year so our IT team has removed all hard drives.  Unfortunately, one of our teachers made a mistake on the external hard drive backup and lost his papers. The info was accidentally recorded on the hard drive... not the external drive. All hard drives (hundreds and hundreds) are now randomly laying in boxes.

  We can find the laptop that was hers, but is it possible to find the serial number for the hard drive that had been in it? Are the serial numbers for the laptop in any way linked to the serial number on the hard drive? Just try to find every way possible to help him.

  Not sure about the BONE... probably the latest or next to last.

  Thank you!

  There is no correlation between the installed hard drive and MacBooks in which they have been installed. Then the next number in the series could even have another brand of disc.

  Frankly, I can't remove these drives. A single pass of erasure with writing zeros would be crushed everything (but it takes all afternoon). Crushed once sufficient for everything but nuclear secrets.

• Compaq presario s4100nx: how to remove the hard drive compaq presario s4100nx

  I removed the ropes attached to the hard drive. I also removed the 2 screws on top. but the hard drive doesn't go out. are there instructions for this particular model and where can I find it?

  Mahjal, welcome to the forum.

  Here's a guide that should help you remove the hard drive.

  Please click on the Thumbs up button '+' if I helped you and click on "Accept as Solution" If your problem is resolved.

• Satellite L300: How to remove the HARD drive password

  Hello world. I have a problem with my Satellite L300. I put a password on the HARD drive and now I want to remove it, but it doesn't let me,
  So any ideas on how to completely remove the prompt to "enter the password for HARD drive built-in user" would be very appreciated.

  Thank you very much
  Martin

  Hello

  Please check this thread:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=56069

  The user wrote:
  + It's usually cycle which starts when you press or to start to change this option. +.
  + Once, I found that I was out. +

  Hope this is the info that you need to remove the HARD drive password...

• missing hal.dll message after removing the hard drive

  Original title:Ok, I had the same problem on my hard drive missing hal.dll. My question is what windows xp writes the cmos on my computer?

  OK, I had the same problem on my hard drive missing hal.dll. My question is what windows xp writes the cmos on my computer? The reason why I ask, is that I physically removed the hard drive from the computer and then start the computer I get the same message hal.dll lack. Since the hard drive is not installed, the only place where this message comes's cmos or bios of the computer.
  I know it seems odd, but I couldn't believe it when I saw it after removing the hard drive. It used to be with older computers and Windows 95 or 98 when you took a hard drive that wasn't working and installed with one that works from a different computer, you could swap out and boot the computer and make a few changes to some drivers if you.

  So what is windows xp write to the memory cmos on my computer?

  > Ok, I had the same problem on my hard drive missing hal.dll.

  The same as what? If you reference another thread, please include a link to it.

  > My question is what windows xp writes the cmos on my computer?

  It is not write anything for her at all.

  > Lack of the reason why I ask this is that I physically removed the hard drive from the computer and then start the computer I get the same message hal.dll.

  I think that you're wrong. I would like to say two things happening:

  1. you have more than one hard drive and the problematic drive was not removed, or

  2. you deleted something other than a hard drive.

  Do you have a CD in your CD drive by chance?

  What is the brand and model of your PC? Are you able to get into the BIOS?

• Removal of hard drive which is the main partition

  One of my hard drives is broken and I want to remove it from my computer because it takes much more time to start. The drive is the primary drive (I have 2) and I was wondering if I remove the disk will my windows disk 2 change my remaining on the primary disk drive?

  I think it is Yes, but the question, of course.  Thank you very much.

  
  

  Roly

  Hi rolyreefer,

  Many internal hard drives of the riders that in order to configure the main hard drive (master) disk where you install Windows or a secondary (slave) drive, you define where you store programs and files. These riders are of small plastic sleeves that you place on the correct metal jumper pins. For additional instructions, see the documentation that came with the internal hard drive.

  Remove the primary disk may not be affecting the other disk.

  For more information, please see the link below.

  Install or remove a hard drive

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/install-or-remove-a-hard-disk-drive

  If this does not work, I suggest you to contact computer maufacturer to solve your problem. Unfortunately, we can not help with third party software/hardware changes.

  Please post back and let us know if it helped to solve your problem.

  Kind regards

  KarthiK TP

• I currently store my pictures on and an external hard drive.  Lightroom 6 was not able to find the picture momentarily files.  I inserted an external Flash DRIVE after removing the hard drive and the computer renamed the stick with the same drive letter t

  Redesign existing external hard disks and still 6 Lightroom able to find existing photos.

  I currently store my pictures on and an external hard drive.  Lightroom 6 was not able to find the picture momentarily files.  I inserted an external Flash DRIVE after removing the hard drive and the computer renamed the stick with the same drive letter that has been designated by Lightroom to store my photos.  I could go into my Windows 10 and reset the player to the letter that Lightroom has given at the beginning of the external hard drive.   However, I know this can happen again, if I connect any stick USD or another device, while the external hard drive is not connected to my laptop.   I found the information that I can do the new designation of the final drive by choosing a letter it is 1/2 way or higher in the alphabet.   I would like to turn an external hard drive on a strong letter, warns we hope this previous problem.   My question is, if I already have a lot of pictures on this external hardrive with the designation of the current drive, how it becomes a higher letter and have 6 Lightroom recognizes files, now under the new designation of drive letter without having to go to each photo individually and manually force Lightroom 6 find each photo.  It would take more time than I'd like to lose.  Is there a way to get just 6 Lightroom to recognize the new disk designation has changed and is able to find all of the existing files?

  I have read the ADOBE LightRoom 6 manual and seem not to be able to find anything on how to do it.

  Any help would be welcome.

  Thank you!

  So in Windows, you can select a drive like q letter (or any other letter you want only towards the end of the alphabet)

  Then in Lightroom, you can reconnect to the photos on q: the following instructions (see specifically 4 Figure and related text)

  Adobe Lightroom - find moved or missing folders and files

• If I remove the hard drive from my Mac book will find my Mac still works

  One of my buddies and ME are supporting it because im trying to say that if you remove the hard drive of a Macbook, find my Mac no longer works, even if you get a new hard drive and connect it to the Internet. He said, that it only stops working if it is not connected to the internet, and I know it's true, but I want to know if my theory is correct,

  If you remove the HD there is nothing to identify your Mac then FindMyMac.

  To use FindMyMac the Mac must be connected to the internet and FindMyMac must be enabled in system preferences > iCloud. This requires Mac be signed in iCloud.

• Satellite 1410-902: how to remove a HARD drive

  Hello. Anyone know how to remove a disk for a Toshiba Satellite 1410 902?
  Open the Panel here, it's the HARD drive, but there is no obvious way to get it out... I don't want to force it.
  Thanks for the help.

  Luca.

  Hello

  The HARD drive slot is placed at the bottom of the unit. You don't have to remove the screw holding the cover of the slot. Then, you can simply remove the HARD drive.
  But be careful.

• Tecra R10 - how to remove the HARD drive?

  Is there a description available hoe to remove a hard drive in a Tecra R10 and plugin a new hard drive?

  Hey Buddy,

  As far as I know, the HARD drive is placed under the hood of the laptop and so many parts must be removed as a CD player, keyboard, base assy, etc..

  In my opinion it of a delicate procedure and must be done by a technician laptop because a lot of screws must be removed as well.

  Current HARD disk is defective or why you want to exchange it?

• Satellite P10 804: how to remove the HARD drive?

  I would like to remove the internal hard disk of 60 GB of my satellite P10 804 and replace it with a bigger drive, but cannot find a way to enter in the case of removing the HARD drive.

  Does anyone have the details on how to do?

  Hello

  To my knowledge, the HARD drive must be placed under the optical dirve.
  To remove the HARD drive, first remove the battery and the optical drive, and then follow the steps below:

  1. remove the four black screws that anchor the shield of aluminum covering the HARD drive and pull it out.
  2. gently pull on the HARD drive the front panel of the computer to disconnect the system board, then pull it out.
  3. remove the four silver screws that attach the HARD drive to the HARD disk case.

  But be careful. If you have no experience ask someone with more experience in these replacements.