Qosmio G20 blocked on JBOD in BIOS

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• JBOD Qosmio G20 - could not initialize the disk of 320 GB - 1RAID-0

  Hello, comrades Toshiba users,
  at first, I apologize if this question has already been answered, but I did not find the answer to my problem.

  One of my colleagues has a Toshiba Qosmio G20 with two 80 GB drives. Big 17-inch "surf-board-sized" computers laptops are not my cup of tea, but the Qosmio him quite well served.
  We tried to upgrade the two hard drives of aging in his laptop. With considerable experience in replacing the readers of the laptop, I didn't expect no particular surprise, but I was wrong.

  We tried to replace the original disks
  Bay 1: 80 GB Fujitsu drive, System
  2: 80 GB Fujitsu drive, data, RAID off the coast of the Bay

  with the new
  Bay 1: 320 GB WD Scorpio
  WD Scorpio 2: 320 GB drive Bay.

  The BIOS of the G20 is v1.30, the latest version. It recognizes new readers-, but one of the new marking as 1RAID-0 disks fails. After trying to "initialize" the 320 GB drive in bay 1 as 1RAID-0, on the third page of the G20 of BIOS, there is a disk activity, but the drive remains in JBOD mode.

  Unable to mark the drive of 320 GB 1RAID-0, I am unable to use the 320 GB drive as a system disk.

  If the original system drive is cloned on a new 320 GB drive, that it does not start. Starting XP * begins * but subsequently fails with STOP 0x7B - in other words, the infamous blue screen INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE when the Toshiba RAID driver is loaded during Windows startup.
  Plain vanilla CD, of course with slipstreamed windows installation driver Toshiba, impossible rest. Installing Windows don't "see" drive in Bay 2.

  When the drive system is put in the high Bay and G20 is started from it, Windows XP starts correctly. The drive in Bay 1 is accessable from Windows, however, remains offline in the RAID from Toshiba console. If the start player in Bay 2 is not an option, too.

  A similar problem, where the owner could not install a system of 200 GB drive is described here
  Link: http://tinyurl.com/38wokw
  The owner, however managed to install a 100 GB drive and we have resorted to 80 GB of disk as a system disk and the only player upgrade in Bay 2 to 320 GB.

  I understand what happens when the disk is 'initialized' in the BIOS. Only brands of BIOS of Toshiba disk 1RAID-0, and it breaks down on 320 GB drive. I will refrain from expressing my opinion on this practice.

  My question is - if it is possible, how * manually * mark the drive of 320 GB 1RAID-0?
  Using a hex editor, dd or something similar is no problem. A partial answer would also know the disc more large size which * can * be marked with success under the name of 1RAID-0 at BIOS G20.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  I m not 100% sure, what could be wrong by presumably 320 HARD drive size might be too big!
  How about the 100 GB or 120 GB hard drives?

  I think you should consider it because usually most of the BIOS supports a HARD drive size limitation and therefore not all sizes are supported.

  But note; using the configuration of 1RAID-0 (striping), met by the operating system size is twice more only if the smaller of the two HARD drives in RAID configuration. Using RAID-0, all data on both disks will be lost, even if it is training of two disks fails.

• Qosmio G20-114: Vista upgrade issues - common Module driver is blocked

  I have the Qosmio G20-114 P - M 770/XP MCE /... Part number: PQG20E-00D003EN

  I've upgraded to Vista... and receive a message from driver error driver Toshiba common Module is blocked because it is incompatible with Windows Vista.

  I was running Windows XP MCE. Download a newer version of the driver that would work on this machine and with vista?
  I found a later version of this driver for other models...

  Hello

  No, you can download the latest version of common for Vista modules because the Toshiba has not released drivers Vista for the Qosmio G20

  This error message is displayed on your laptop, because the common modules only work with XP!
  If you want to upgrade XP to Vista you must first remove all incompatible applications.

  See also this thread. It of on the same topic
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=21163

• Qosmio G20 - XP doesn't see second HARD drive, but the BIOS is

  Hello

  Mylène for the long post - but think if give good info, I poss of correct answer:

  After the crash of QOSMIO G20... managed to reinstall of XP Recovery DVD-ROM. Immed after, looked at the config with Win Explorer and two hard drives all present and correct. even copied a picture of my images on the D: drive, just to make sure that all aok.

  Then downloaded SP3 and tried to install - it reported failure and then shut down the PC. After attempts to get again - until finally resorted to reuse the Recovery DVD-ROM.
  Come back XP again - but now, while the BIOS sees two hard drives (reports size, Fab details, etc.), as far as Windows is concerned, it does not exist.

  Tried to initialize in disk management - no sign there.
  He was then released, put it in a shopping cart, connected to the office and initialized and formatted - then returned to mobile... zilch!

  Your kind suggestions and recommendations could save just the remaining strands terrified of hair of a violent end...

  A lot of TIA
  Logis

  Hello House,

  Normally, if the BIOS recognizes the HARD drive, but not Windows, this means that the HARD disk is not formatted, but it must be visible under the Windows disk management.
  You see it now?

  If not it is not easy to say what the reason are you should try load default settings in the BIOS and save it. Then start Windows and check if HDD is visible there too.

  In the worst case, it s that a malfunction of the HARD disk controller, but what you can test if swap you the two drives and put them in another location.

• Question about updating the BIOS for Qosmio G20

  I downloaded the updated the BIOS of my pc, not the Qosmio, the instructions say it will unpack into 3 files, one being a floppy disk installation. When I unzip on my desktop pc, it makes a file that s too big for a floppy and he won t unzip further because it locks up my pc.

  Is it safe to make it work on my desktop pc it can unzip then in the three files and this will affect my BIOS or y at - it somewhere that I can download the floppy part on its own to load on a floppy?

  Hello

  Just a question;
  You have downloaded the Qosmio G20 BIOS on the desktop computer, unpacked and now you want it please on the diskette in the floppy drive.
  Is this good?

  So now my suggestion;
  Firstly that the Qosmio G20 BIOS and other BIOS Toshiba cannot be updated using the floppy! This isn't traditional BIOS!
  The BIOS from the Toshiba page must be updated when the Windows operating system is running!

  By the way: you can unpack the BIOS on your desktop computer, but don t try to run all files, because the bad BIOS can damage the motherboard ROM module!

• How to clear the password for Bios on Qosmio G20

  Hi all,

  I have a problem with my Qosmio G20.
  A year ago, I put my bios password. But now I forget it.
  Could you help me how to delete my old password? Where can I find my CMOS battery?

  Thanks in advance!

  Hey Reaver-> nice page
  But I think in this case the forgotten BIOS password can be removed by the ASP (service provider)

• Qosmio G20-115 - can't seem to run the BIOS update

  I have a Qosmio G20-115, which I'm trying to run an update of the BIOS on because what he s not recognizing nor charge the battery, it s give an error message: The Ac adapter is not connected, or not enough battery power.

  What can I do to run the BIOS update successfully or get the laptop to recognise the battery?

  Hello

  What happens if you remove the battery and the laptop works on AC power only?

• Problems with Qosmio G20 and SuSE Linux 10.3 installation

  Hello

  I can't install SuSE Linux 10.3, because the hard drive will not be detected.
  I think it's the Software Raid... in the BIOS are only the options of Raid 0 and JBOD. When I changed to JBOD, it says I need to install the new os.
  Windows XP Professional is installed on the computer and I want to have a system to dual-boot with Open SuSE 10.3.
  How can I solve the problem?

  MfG

  Man... that's a really complicated problem.

  First of all, please consult this site unofficial toshiba official: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/pc/QosG20_report.htm

  West a complete report on your machine where all material etc. are described. The two entries on the bottom of the site describe the problem that you have.

  Another good friend called 'google' redirected me [THIS | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=574116] site.

  You see, it s a problem since your RAID controller is not correctly recognized by some kernels/distributions.
  I have no perfect solution for you, but I propose to try another distro (since there are hundreds of them) who could probably work with your machine.

  The best would be to visit www.google.com and type something like "Qosmio G20 linux raid". Trust me, you will get many results. :)

  Keep rocking with linux ;)

  Welcome them

• Qosmio G20: How can I get my HDD second back after RAID?

  Hello

  Stupidly I went RAID on my Qosmio G20 and my second HDD which is 60 GB disappeared. I disable the RAID, but the hard drive is still missing. AI? m not as technically of mind that I use to be then I would be really helpful if someone could me an idiots guide (a di mean infallible) how to recover this disc.

  I would be really grateful for any assistance with this. Thank you

  Hello

  Where is this you disable the RAID parameters? What did you do in the BIOS?

  Please note that if you change the RAID settings in the BIOS, you will lose data and the files on the HARD drive!

  To my knowledge, you will find the RAID settings on the third page of the BIOS.
  I remember the JBOD option disable the RAID and you will be able to complete the installation of the restore CD.

  In any case all these information is placed in the user's manual then take and check it ;)

• How to install Win XP on Qosmio G20 using USB flash memory key

  Dear Admin,

  This is regarding my laptop Qosmio G20.

  Last month my OS (windows XP media edition) has been corrupted so I attempt to reformat and reinstall the operating system.

  But unfortunately my CD/DVD-Rom does not work/play,.

  Then I try to install it via a PEN drive bootable with integrated... XP but when I go into the BIOS I n I find USB Boot option... :-(

  Then I remove my main hard drive and put it in another laptop and install the XP, its work in this laptop, but unfortunately when I put the new HARD drive the Qosmio his departure gives the XP logo but in 5-10 sec its judgment and give a blue screen message then then restart automatically...

  plezz help me install XP or Vista or 7 those who works there...

  plezzz plezzz sound my laptop preferred

  Thanks in advance

  JAI

  > Then I try to install via a PEN drive bootable with integrated... XP but when I go into the BIOS I n I find USB Boot option... :-(

  Connect the USB flash memory key to the laptop, now switch on and press F12.
  The start menu should appear where you could see all the possible boot devices.

  Do you see the USB boot option in the start menu?
  If this isn't the case, then you will not be able to boot from USB flash memory.

  > Then I remove my main hard drive and put it in another laptop and install the XP, its work in this laptop, but unfortunately when I put the new HARD drive the Qosmio his departure gives the XP logo but in 5-10 sec its judgment and give a blue screen message then then restart automatically...

  I guess that this is because the RAID drivers was not included!
  Qosmio G20 supports the RAID controller and you add the RAID driver (located on the Toshiba UE driver page) in order to recognize the HARD drive.
  But I put t know if you could do so using another computer I guess that's not possible.

  Maybe you can try to disable RAID in BIOS

• Qosmio G20 screen of text or symbols on startup

  Qosmio G20 139, at the start of the Qosmio laptop appears and then it immediately goes into a screen of text or symbols. Is continuous to load see the Windows XP screen then displays vertical blue dotted, then goes to an error page showing the nonpaged page error error 0 x 00000050. Then restarts and goes around and does the same thing.

  I used the recovery disk and it worked fine for a few days the have reappeared.
  I checked the ram and hard drive and there seems to be some errors.

  Now reinstall drive does not load correctly.
  If a page comes up saying installation is not complete.

  > I checked the ram and hard drive and there seems to be some errors.

  How did you check that?
  Have you used a new test strips of memory and the new HARD drive?

  To be honest, I don t think that your HARD drive is affected. The vertical dotted lines, could be more related question of graphics card in terms of the HARD drive.
  RAM question could also be possible, but I think that its GPU.

  By the way: you are able to access the BIOS?
  Turn on the computer and press F2. Then leave the laptop in BIOS for a few hours to check if some problems arise.
  Would be interesting to know how the unit would be

• Qosmio G20 - Blue LED for the volume does not work on Windows 7

  Hello

  I have a minor problem. Yesterday, I update my Qosmio G20 on 2 GB of RAM and I have install Windows 7. Everything works fine even better than XP, but I notice that my blue led lights for volume no longer works.

  Is there a driver I need to install or any solution that these blue lights for the volume can function again?

  Hi Gabriel,

  I m not Qosmio G20 owner but I m asking you to install Windows 7. I think XP would be the best choice for this portable little plu

  Normally the lighting on Toshiba laptop to install the package of added value. It s is only not for this model, so I put t know if it will work. You should try to download from another model of laptop that is Windows 7 supported.

  In addition also check the BIOS if lighting is enabled.

• Qosmio G20: DVD region Code?

  Hello

  I am about to purchase a Qosmio G20 wasn't what I just learned today that they won't be available mid-2005 in Belgium.

  However, in preparation since then, I have a few questions:

  Because the Qosmio is a DVD playback mode without having to start Windows, this means that the region will be probably set somewhere in the Bios for a given region.

  Travel laptop users and my partner is American, so we have DVD region 1 and 2.

  Are there any evolution of the WinDVD software when running on Qosmio the failing lock a region code after X play. I've never understood that laptops (mobile systems) have the same restrictions as the reception of readers of DVD/entertainment (whow by the way no one knows!)

  So, how can we play the two regions on the Qosmio G20 or anything that will be available for the Belgium.

  Thank you
  Danny

  Post edited by: Danny

  The bounding can be changed 5 times.

  After the last selected region Code is saved in the DVD player.

  But also, there are a lot of programs (Freeware) that help make your life easier and work around this Limitation.

  The only thing that you can do this through precaution is to google all over the place.

  Good bye

• Qosmio G20 and Windows 7

  Hello

  I have an old Qosmio G20-115 that uses the RAID controller for two hard disks. I tried to install Windows 7 (RC1) and Windows Vista, but I'm still stuck at time of installation of Windows, detect hard drives. After reading the various reports from this forum and others sources on the web, I tried many times to get setup to detect the discs using drivers from various different sources, but nothing helped.

  Is there something more fundamental, that I hurt myself? What RAID parameters need to be defined in the BIOS when trying to install an OS? If someone managed to get Windows 7 (RC1) working on their G20? Someone at - it pilots have tested and they managed to get Vista/Windows 7 on their G20-115 s?

  For any help or suggestion would be appreciated.

  Thanks in advance.

  When installing Win7, you must have the RAID driver on a floppy disk or USB key. Win7 Setup prompts you for a custom storage driver.

  You can get the RAID for Vista driver on the Toshiba site. It should work in win7.

• Qosmio G20: Is there a hidden partition on HDD1 for QosmioPlayer?

  Hello

  I have a Qosmio G20 and I noticed that the BIOS indicates HDD1 95 GB HDD2 is 100 GB (as it should). Is there anyone else who have experienced this problem or is my HDD1 damaged or is there a hidden partition?

  If there is a hidden partition - how to remove? (I really don't see the point with QosmioPlayer).

  / Henrik

  Hello

  AFAIK the Qosmio Player is pre-installed on the hidden partition.
  It is perhaps a reason for different size of HARD drive.

  The disk format HARD completely should remove the hidden partition and Qosmio player. But this procedure is not recommended.

  Please also check other similar topic display:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=9709&MessageID=34297藹

  Good bye