Re: Portege R100 boot - HDD ok

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• Portege R100 - boot from the external HARD drive

  I have a Portege R100 and the HARD drive has failed. I installed a new HARD drive and I have the Toshiba recovery disks. I tried to boot from a generic USB CD-ROM but the laptop did not recognize.

  I have a disk of Toshiba USB drive it does not recognize and I have a restore disc but I don't know how from there. Do I have to buy a CD external Toshiba and if so, which?
  Any useful suggestions?

  Hello

  Boot from the external USB CD/DVD drive is not possible.
  You will also be able to boot from USB HDD!

  If you want to boot from the CD, you must use a compatible PCMCIA cards (16-bit and 32-bit Cardbus) CD/DVD drive.

  For more information, see this article from Toshiba:
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

  and this other thread:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=97343𗰿
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=8991&MessageID=31246

  Good bye

• Portege R100 and HDD upgrade

  Hello

  I have a Portege R100 and I want to upgrade the 40 GB HARD disk. What is the highest size that I could upgrade using Toshiba or not Toshiba HDD?
  There are 1.8 "SSD? What would be the best way to update?

  Thank you
  Romeo

  I have an old Portege 2000 and it's almost the same specifications your one, but my has been delivered with 20 GB of HARD drive. I've updated it with 60 GB and it works perfectly.
  I can understand your wishes on the HARD drive upgrade, but I recommend you to be a little more realistic and spend it is logical and understandable for this older model laptop.

  So I can confirm that 60 GB HARD drive will be working well. Maybe you can use the HARD disk with more capacity, but Toshiba is now your Portege with 40 GB max. What you can do is to contact the nearest Toshiba authorized maintainer and ask them if they have more experiences with the hardware upgrade on this laptop.

  To be honest, this laptop is not designed for multimedia stuff and in fact 60 GB HARD drive is quite enough for the installation of applications and for the registration of all the important things like maybe a few videos, photos and office documents.

  What you want to do with this laptop?

• Portege R100 boots from the HARD drive - lack of operating system

  Hello

  I have a Portege R100 which won't the HD boot, I get the message "missing operating system".
  I don't have a compatible CD or floppy, I just about 1.8 inches for the hd, it works and I also have norton ghost 2003 is installed in another computer (a toshiba satellite A45).

  I tried to recover the drive with the help of norton and the image of the Ghost in the recovery CD, but it keep asking for a password.

  I would like to know if there is a way to use the restore with norton CD and usb driver and password screen (or where I can get the password?).

  Thank you!

  What password do you mean?

  and what recovery CD do you use? The image on the Toshiba Recovery CD is locked and cannot be extracted.

  It turns out that you cannot start or install the OS on the USB key!
  You must boot from the CD/DVD compatible player that can be connected to the PC card slot.

• Portege R100 boot - black cursor screen flashing white underscore

  the drive activity light flashes for a second then stops
  the screen is black with a white cursor line underscore flashing in the top left

  I tried to boot from the recovery CD, (press F12 etc.), but there just ejects the CD? !!

  I tried to watch the BIOS by pressing ESC at startup, but it will not go into the bios screen?

  Welcome Idaes

  According to your description problems, that the best solution is to contact authorised Toshiba partner in your country. They check your laptop. There are few very serious issues and I really don't think you can do it alone.

• Extended battery for Portege R100 in the United Kingdom

  Hello

  I hope that the topic covers it pretty well things, but...

  I read that the R100 in America comes with a long battery life and I was wondering if it is possible to buy one in the United Kingdom. I can't find anything online.

  Also the Portege R100 boot from USB at all?

  Thank you very much

  This battery high capacity has PA3155U-1BRL part number. I don't have time to search for on Google but use this number in Google UK, and I hope you find an online store where you can order.

  On boot USB, I can not say much, but at the start of the laptop under the Toshiba start screen you should see small symbols with all bootable devices. Check if the USB is there.

  You want to use USB external CD-Rom?

• Portege R100, PXE - boot problem - E61:Media Test failure, check cable

  My portege r100 4004GAH original hard drive has had some problems recently, so I decided to replace it with a bigger 4006GAH. Specifications, it seemed that it would be appropriate.

  So I tried to install standard windows top. Unfortunately as I soon discovered that didn't work and lead to BSOD. I looked online and remembered that I had in fact to use the recovery of three discs. Fortunately for me I still had the freshly sealed and I've also owned a combined remarkable Targus CD drive supported. If in the three discs are gone. All seemed well and after that the last drive ended, I was asked to remove the disc. The laptop has rebooted and then gave me the

  PXE - E61:Media Test failure, check cable
  PXE - M0F: Exit Intel PXE ROM
  Insert system disk
  Press a key to continue...

  I thought it might be in the order of start, but verified that and it seemed right. HD was first. I also changed the order and the same error came.
  I thought while another component of my laptop may be broken. So I put my old hard drive in. It started fine.
  The next thought that the new hard drive was defective.

  Fortunately, this is not the case. Because when I used the recovery disks not only heard disk hard turns to the top, but the hard drives were detected and recovery installation displays the correct memory size.

  I'm completely stumped on hat w what is the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

  It is not easy to say what the problem is but you said the Portege started fine with the old HDD. So I think that there is something wrong with the new.

  In your case I test the HARD drive with a special tool like Drive Fitness Test. Download the CD image, burn it to a CD and boot from it. Then you can test the HARD drive.
  On the same site is a user's guide if you want to know more.
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/HDD/support/download.htm#DFT

  In addition I am interested in what you have the same problem with a Microsoft installation disc if you have one.
  So try if your HARD disk has no errors.

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

  Hello
  I have laptop TOSHIBA PORTEGE R100, I wanted to reinstall win XP using PCMCIA HDD (MK2001MPL).

  It is easily detectable by Windows XP, but it is not detected by my BIOS v 1.3 (I changed the boot priority).
  I should mention that I formatted FAT32 and saved, copied, but it still does not work. Is it possible to start the PCMCIA HDD with BIOS, or I can use it just as internal HDD.
  There may be special driver or another method to solve my problem.

  Waiting for response, any advice would be helpful...

  Hello

  the problem is that the HARD drive is not supposed to act as a normal player. It s, more an extension and I'm not sure I have it would actually work in the BIOS as you describe.
  I think that it wouldn work because the HARD drive need a driver that is not given when just the BIOS is loaded. BIOS loads network PCMCIA cards, but I've never heard of a PCMCIA HDD which was used as a bootable disk. Maybe USB but no PC Card.

  IMHO, I think you should drop your thoughts on using the card as a bootable drive and use it as a normal internal memory expansion.

  In the opposite case: google is your friend :)

  Welcome them

• Re: Portege R100 - unable to boot from the CD USB player

  Hi all

  I use Portege R100.
  I am not able to boot from usb cd player and the cd player does also not xp, but all other usb devices work fine and cd usb player everything works fine on the other system.

  Can someone help me
  Thanks in advance

  Goutam

  > Thanks, but how do I boot from a cd rom usb drive? I don't have any usb floppy drive
  You need to first boot the bootable disc using a bootable diskette floppy drive!
  Then a driver would be loaded that allows you to boot from the CD/DVD drive

  Akuma explained already!

• Portege R100: FDISK and format HDD takes a long time

  I have a Portege R100 and when I tried executing FDISK it will take a lot of time to create a DOS partition.

  After executing FDISK, I tried to FORMAT the HD and takes more than 6 hours to format the hard drive.
  After Format, I tried to load Win XP but it hanged system with loading messages files...

  Could someone hep me

  Hello

  Why you do not restore CD to create new partitions? It can be done very quickly. This option is available in the installation in Expert mode.

  Time FDISK is long gone. :)

• Portege R100 - how to install after Exchange of HARD drive?

  Hello world
  I'm new to this forum and I want to know exactly where I'm wrong. I have this portege r100 laptop and the hard drive gave a few days ago. Because I am a novice when it comes to computers, I left the laptop with an engineer, that I found on Kijiji.
  Unfortunately, the engineer could not load any operating system on it. I go through this forum and loads found useful answers, but alas, still the same problem.
  Could someone guide me in the right direction. I would be really grateful that I have exams coming next week and really need the laptop.

  I don't have any CD-ROM compatiable only an external floppy drive.
  I tried to install using the windows startup disk (x 6 downloaded from the microsoft Web site), but after the 6 disc it asks me 3 options.

  1. press ENTER to install
  2. recovery console option of
  Output 3.F3

  When I press on enter is not superimposed my cd rom which I figured out is not compatiable. If I leave the connected cd rom it says unmountable boot disk. It gives me a bsod. Is there another way, I could install the operating system using only the FDD.
  I'd appreciate it really all the help of the experienced members of this forum.
  Thank you.

  First of all, you can not use any external CD/DVD drive... you must use a compatible and recommended by Toshiba.

  Secondly, I you could try to connect the HARD drive to another computer using the USB caddy.
  Then copy the i386 to the HARD disk folder.
  Then, you can run the winnt.exe file to start the Setup program.

  Once configuration is complete plug the HDD to the Portege and tries to start
  It is only theory, but maybe it won't work

• Reload Windows XP on Portege R100

  I have a R100, who does not start in Windows (XP) - gets etc. secure mode/last good on-screen, then dies. I was going to try to repair the Windows installation using a XP normal drive, rather than a full recovery of the product, as the back-ups have been exceeded, of course, and I need some files.

  Another problem, my external PC card drive of Toshiba (PA3246) seems to be dead - power light turns on, but door will not open and not recognized on any PC. It seems impossible to get a Toshiba PC card disk now, only USB.

  So, questions:
  (1) what is the probability to repair the Windows installation, as opposed to the full recovery of the product?
  (2) any thoughts on a failed external drive?
  (3) would be a R100 boot from a Windows CD via a USB connection, or no one knows source of suitable PC card reader (already tried ebay etc.)?

  Any help at all welcomed.

  Hello

  I see you have a lot of Guy question ;) I will try to provide the best answers and proposals of solution :)

  Then on the point:
  1. I don't see any other chances of recovering all of the operating system.
  If you need some files, you could first remove the HARD drive and it could connect to another computer via the external USB HDD controller.

  2. If the external PC card reader is dead, it will take a new :( Sorry, but I don't see any other possibilities for a fix.
  Perhaps that the guarantee is valid and you will get a new one for free

  3. If you want more details on the R100 and boot USB please check this:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=8991&MessageID=31246
  Portege R100 does not support installation of the OS on the USB CD/DVD drive.
  Portege R100 supports the recovery of (16-bit and Cardbus) PCMCIA cards.

  Concerning

• Cannot get Portege R100 to retrieve by using the original diskettes

  I just brought my 2005 Portege R100 to retire to give one of the children - but it wouldn't start. I changed the boot CD-ROM order > LAN > HDD > PC Card and put the original recovery disks in the drive of DVD Toshiba genuine (and compatible).

  The system starts the DVD player and then gives me the following messages:

  No found record CD/DVD-ROM

  Then he reads the source files in the A: drive and try to mount the PCMCIA drive

  He then tells me it can't find the device driver "TOSCD001".
  Invalid device CDROM drivers selected
  Bad command or filename
  Unable to copy the CD to RAM-drive C: drive!

  All tips are welcome because the child looks forward to his laptop!

  Thank you

  Alan

  Hello.

  I guess you need a companion disc as described here
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

  You must boot from this floppy disk to load the driver for CD/DVD drive.

• PORTEGE R100 CD-ROM recovery problem

  Hi, I had a few problems of recovery PORTEGE R100. My problem is that when I try to reinstall the system with the recovery of the boot disk CD, it does not recognize the CD. The CD-ROM is not a TOSHIBA product. Is there any solution for this?

  Hello

  It will be interesting to know if your external CD is a USB or PCMCIA device.

  You must make a Windows startup disk and add drivers for your CD-ROM BACK drive and then you should be able to recover the machine with this CD.

• Portege R100 and new hard drive

  I think to put in a larger capacity internal hard drive - 40G is now a little bit :(

  Does anyone do this? The traps? Any suggestions on compatible drives?

  TIA

  Hello

  As far as I know the old Portege R100 supported a HDD IDE controller.
  So you will definitely need an IDE HDD. I think that it s a 1.8 IDE HDD.

  I think the HDD IDE controller supports only the 28-bit LBA and it would mean that there would be larger than 120 GB hard drives not recognized.

  That's why I choose smaller hard drives.