Re: Satellite A40 - hard drive error - will not start

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• Hard drive error, does not start.

  Computer does not start. I get this failure code:
  Rw1xtw-7ax87b-mfpv6k-619403
  
  Can't find any information on this subject, can someone shed some light on this subject for me?

  Hello

  It decodes for hard drive error 305 or the hard drive has failed, you will need to get the replaced hard drive and reinstall the OS and have a Fresh start, note that all your data is saved on the hard drive will be lost.

• MacBook Pro Panic error - will not start

  I'm getting the following at the start. Have no idea what it is or what to do. Appreciate any advice.  Backup the latest TM is dec 10. But can't even get the stages of recovery to work.  Tests of material D on OK.

  

  If you're in Snow Leopard as your profile is displayed, follow these steps:

  Reinstall OS X without erasing the drive

  1 fix the hard disk and permissions

  Boot from your Snow Leopard installation disc. After the installer loads, choose your language and click on the button continue. When the menu bar appears select utility drive in the Utilities menu. After that the charges of THE select your entry from hard drive (mfgr. ID and car size) in the list on the left.  In the status area, you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is faulty or has failed. (State SMART is not reported on external drives Firewire or USB). If the drive is "verified", then select your OS X volume in the list on the left (subentries under the entry for the road), click the first aid tab, then click the repair disk button. If THE reports any errors that have been corrected, and then run repair disk again until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, click repair permissions . Wait until the operation is complete, then exit FROM and return to the installer.

  If THE reports errors, it cannot be resolved, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you do not have one of them or none of them can fix the disc, then you will need to reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS X.

  2 reinstall Snow Leopard

  If the disc is OK then leave FROM and return to the installer.  Proceed to reinstall OS X.  Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files.  After installing a new copy of Mac OS X, the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, elements of support and network preferences in the newly installed system.

  Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 v1.1 updated Combo.

  If the above does not work, then follow these steps:

  Clean Install of Snow Leopard

  Make sure that you have backed up your files because the following procedure will remove all of the hard drive.

  1. start the computer using the Snow Leopard installation disc or disc 1 that came

  with your computer.  Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.

  After the ring, press and hold the C"" key.  Release the button when you see

  a small gear appear under the dark gray Apple logo.

  2. once the load setup program select your language and click continue

  button. When the menu bar appears select utility drive in the Utilities menu.

  After charge OF select hard drive entry in the list on the left (mfgr. ID and drive

  size.)  Click the Partition tab in the main window of THE.  Set the number of

  partitions to one (1) from the Partitions of the dropdown menu, click on the Options button

  GUID, click OK, and then select define the Mac OS Extended format type

  (Logged, if supported), and then click the apply button.

  3. when formatting is complete FROM and return to the installer.  Move forward

  with the installation of OS X and follow the instructions included with the installer.

  4. Once installation is complete your computer will restart in the Setup

  Assistant. After finishing Setup Wizard will complete the installation, after which

  you will use a new installation of Mac OS X.  You can now begin the process of updating

  at the opening of updated software and installing all recommend updates to bring your

  current installation.

  5. If you plan to sell or to give to your remote computer, then proceed as follows:

  Once you reformat your hard disk and reinstall OS X, the computer restarts with a

  Screen of welcome and you prompt to choose a country or region. If you want to leave

  the Mac in an out-of-box state, do not continue with the configuration of your system. Instead,.

  Press command-Q to stop the Mac. When the new owner turns on the Mac,

  the Setup Wizard will guide them through the configuration process.

  Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 v1.1 updated Combo.

• Satellite A40: HARD drive no longer works

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A40 with a 40 GB hard drive that was supplied as standard.
  I have had absolutely no problems with it since buying it... so far.

  On September 19 I left my laptop (do nothing) for a while I had to rush. I went back to the 'blue screen of death' that says I had a hardware failure and Windows were closed. It was late, so I turned off the laptop and he left until the morning.

  The next morning I start the laptop. It makes a noise of terrible rattle than he ever has before. It loaded windows extremely slowly, me connected and then crashed to blue screen.

  When I heard the noise, I thought it was the turbine that is blocked will cause the laptop overheating and stopping. Then I checked the fan for obstruction and dust and then cleaned the dust out of the heatsink at the back. I turned on the laptop and the sound came back.

  After listening to the noise more closely, I heard that he was not coming right in front of him - the hard drive fan, but the compartment. So when I started the computer I got the Toshiba POST screen and then it would not start. I booted from the recovery CD to reformat the HD, but whenever he tries to read the HD to start re-formatting it crashes. And now, whenever I turn it on I get the message "insert system disk".

  I had this problem before with another computer and everything just re-installed windows, but I have never had such a strong and terrible HD noise. I'll try to reinstall windows later today, but wanted to know if anyone else has had a similar problem and if it would be wise to replace the HD altogether. Preferabbly I want to reinstall Windows and recover files lost which unfortuently have not been saved, I typed only their place the same day.

  Any comments or ideas would be very useful.
  Thank you.

  Hello

  For me, the matter is very clear. According to the description of you, it sounds like a HARD disk head crash. The noise is coming from the inside of the HARD drive.
  In addition, the message "Insert system disk" appears because the BIOS can not find the HARD drive or operating system.

  Well, unfortunately, in my opinion it is not big thing to do. I don't think that replace drive HARD will solve this problem and allows you to reuse the laptop.

  Good luck

• Satellite P100: HARD drive sometimes fails to start or just not responding

  I have a satellite P100 on xp professional service pack 2. Sometimes it fails to start and appears as if the hard drive just stopped responding, does not require defragmentation.

  Checked all Diagnostics pass, can get it started by selecting the boot options multiple F12, HDD that appears first in the list.

  Although it seems not take a long time.
  Sometimes it seems to stall at the start to the top but picks up then after a few minutes and fortunately sometimes it starts without a problem.

  What is data corrupted in the bios? but then why it starts ok sometimes and not others? It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold.

  any ideas or help greatly received.
  David

  Post edited by: daviddean

  Hello David

  It's a very strange situation, and for me there is no explanation simply. In my opinion the laptop or HARD drive, the functionality must be tested properly. Here in the forum we can speculate just what is the problem here but mobile startup must be tested with the other HARD drive pre-installed with original recovery image.

  It will be interesting to know if the problem disappeared with new HARD drive. So what you can do now? If possible, try to get the second HARD drive and do the only testicles or make a call to the authorized service center and explain the situation. If the laptop is guaranteed to be valid, it will be better to check in service because they can replace free HARD drive (if the HARD disk is defective).

  Sorry, but I don't see another solution. Some test with the new HARD drive can help you to understand if this happens because of the HARD drive. I don't think that the BIOS can be responsible for the issue described.

• Satellite P300-1 c 8 will not start up disk drive

  Hello

  I had a little play with the start up programs, partitioning the hard drive and the marking as assets and remove programs I thought I didn't need.
  I of course had no idea what I was doing!

  Laptop will go to toshiba screen then turns off, I can not boot from the hard drive.
  I put the hard drive in another laptop and it works fine.
  J’ai mis le disque dur de l’ordinateur portable dans le buggered un et qui fonctionne très bien.

  How the hell can I put the original back with it works?

  Really really stuck with it!

  Any help would be appreciated.

  The only thing I have not tried is the restore disc but I'm not paying for one if it does not start as itl be a waste of money.
  Looks like it is a compatibility issue with the processor and hard drive because they won't be friends!

  Thanks in advance

  Hello!

  You can start in safe mode?

  If you don t have a recovery disk, use the Microsoft installation disc and try to boot from it.
  And you said that you can boot from the hard t disc, done you have tried different discs?
  Maybe some are not legible or not bootable.

  The best way would be a recovery disk. The installation takes a few minutes and you have a clean install with all the drivers and tools of Toshiba.

  Good bye

• my hard drive cloning will not affect the computer in the new OS?

  I currently have a Gateway laptop that is running Windows Vista. The hard drive in the new ASUS that works under Windows 7 I just bought cloning affect or replace 7 with VISTA?

  Hello

  Yes, it will affect it

  It will not work for many reasons

  Your Gateway vista is an OEM license and is linked to the original machine on which it is installed

  It is not transferable

  even if it's a retail license, which is not the case, it would not start as gateway motherboard drivers are installed on the old hard drive

  and above all, it will not activate because it is only an OEM license tied to the Gateway Laptop

• Seagate external HARD drive expansion will not identify Windows 7 x 64. OK in a first time and fine on Vista x 86.

  Recently installed Windows 7 Home Premium x 64 Vista Home Premium x 86. Under Vista, everything was fine. Less than 7, my Seagate expansion (1.5 TB) hard drive initially was recognized (I have iTunes library I can't play to prove :)) after a few days using 7, however, I lost the external HARD drive. I get the error message is "software device driver is not properly installed." In Device Mgr, it says it's an "unknown device" with the yellow! triangle. "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) "appears in the details of the device. No updated drivers are available. Windows updates are up to date, nothing helps. Restart, reinstall, restore driver, deactivation, nothing works. Tried to update my BIOS, but it is already the latest version of Dell. Trying any other Dell Update, what it offers is the Download Manager, but not actual updates I select. I'm not allowed to use this player all of a sudden, after that it worked fine for a few days!

  Specific features of the system are as follows:

  Name of the operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
  Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
  Another Description of the OS is not available
  Manufacturer of operating system Microsoft Corporation
  System name PHIL-PC
  System manufacturer Dell Inc.
  Inspiron 530 s model system
  System Type x 64-based PC
  Processor Intel (r) Pentium (r) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00 GHz, 2000 Mhz, 2 Lossnay, 2 logical processors
  BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 1.0.18, 24/02/2009
  SMBIOS 2.5 version
  Windows directory C:\Windows
  System directory C:\Windows\system32
  Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
  Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385".
  Physical memory (RAM) installed 4.00 GB
  Total physical memory 4.00 GB
  2.54 GB available physical memory

  Thanks in advance for any helpful info!

  All this occurred within three days of using Windows 7 x 64, so I don't think there is a previous restore point to go back to. However, I would not I install updates to be rendered unusable and allow my system, and their insecurity. And, as stated in my original post, I have gone through the drivers to uninstall or disable normal, remove, reinstall, etc. etc. without help.

  An update my original post, I finally got the unit of work, although not as fast as it was in Vista x 86. I did back up the device to a laptop from Vista Home Premium I have, let it load the drivers it needs, and then after reconnection to 7, it has been working well, but overall slowly in read/write functions and clicking on a lot more than he did primarily when operating. What I went through get this thing to work, I think that the currently loaded driver is for a 32 bit OS, and there is no update (again) for 64-bit. I leave it alone, because it is functional, and if it is not recognized after the next set of Windows updates, I guess I have to restore to a previous image.

  Dell doesn't seem to have anything for her, and Seagate plans explicitly on their site that they don't provide drivers for this HARD drive while referring to Microsoft or the manufacturer of the equipment for drivers.

• Satellite L670 - the system HARD drive recovery does not start

  Hello together,

  I have a problem with my laptop. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, that the laptop came with Win7 Home Premium 32 bit.
  Now I want to restore the original Windows Home Premium. On the laptop is a second partition with a folder named "disk HARD recovery.

  When I hold the button '0' on start nothing happens. The beginning of doesn´t of system recovery.

  Can you help fix the problem.

  Thank you and best regards,
  Dinder

  Hello

  This does not work because you have installed Win 7 64 bit as you said here:
  > I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, that the laptop came with Win7 Home Premium 32 bit.
  But have you tried also pressing F8-> fix my computer-> drive HARD recovery?
  Try this

  Otherwise, drive HARD recovery does not work because the boot manager has been changed or damaged as a result of the new install of Win 7 and this is why you cannot load HARD drive recovery.
  That is why it s always recommended to create a recovery disc before changing anything on the HARD drive.

  What to tell buddy you need recovery disks. I guess that you have a European model for laptop

  You can order the recovery discs here:
  https://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

• Satellite A40-231: SD-R6112 will not read the DVDs I burned

  I finally got my DVD burner to work, but now the drive will not read the DVDs I burned, which, of course, defies the point of having a dvd burner in the first place... When I insert my dvd recently burned, "working" light lights and stays on. Same thing happens no matter how many times I take it out and put plug back in, restart my computer, etc... any ideas anyone?

  Hello

  @Magnus:
  Sometimes, CDs and burned DVD cannot be read with no closing sessions of engraving. You should check this option.
  In addition, this burning program did you use?
  I use Nero. Form is the program better combustion and I never had a problem.
  What you need to do is to test several DVDs. not all media work on the disc.

• New hard drive installation, will not register windows, uses too much of.

  Hello

  Recently, I upgraded my hard drive to an ssd, when I reinstalled windows that it would not activate to saying that it had been used on too many appliances. I bought a friend's computer.

  My main question is, is there a way around this without buying a new product key, windows 7 professional sound. Since its still the same machine it is used on and not another computer?

  Thanks for any help

  Have you tried to restart by phone?

  How to activate Windows 7 manually (activate by phone)
   
  1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
   
  (2) press the ENTER"" key.
   
  (3) select your "country" in the list.
   
  (4) choose the option "activate phone".
   
  (5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.
   
  (6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.
   
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

• I changed the settings to backup to an external hard drive, but will not run the backup request

  My internal backup HD was full so I did system image on an external hard drive.  That has worked well.  When I wanted to make a backup on the same drive, I got the message that he could not be executed.

  My internal backup HD was full so I did system image on an external hard drive.  That has worked well.  When I wanted to make a backup on the same drive, I got the message that he could not be executed.

  What was the exact message you saw (Word for Word, please!)?

• My big Hard Drive Partition will not be displayed in the Defragmenter

  So, it's weird, but when I start my derangementer disc, it will not show my 'c' drive  I have 2 drives, a 'C' drive and a drive to "D".  D is just for backup, while C is for all program/system files.  Then, of course, C must defraged for the computer normally elapse.  Does anyone know a good work around or if I can re - install disk from somewhere Defragmenter (please include the link to all sites if you have a method of re-installation). Also, I tried planning as a task and C will not always be displayed.

  Hi DanSiroky,

  Windows that reports using its built-in algorithms and these standards, drives
  do not defragment. However, there are other commands to change how the Defragmenter
  reorganizes the files on the disk. 3rd party tools can also be used for added functionality and/or
  different methods for the arrangement of the file.

  Take a look at the links with a similar question.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/Disk-Deframenter-not-working-opening-in-Windows-7/90ff4b35-8086-4A80-bc48-0d8e4fc6d758

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/Windows-7-defrag-system-shows-5-fragmented/7101a9ee-F163-4176-8F19-85b7d6e48ce4

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/defragment-program-does-not-show-my-c-drive/304a2323-5771-4545-94c4-18982bd0f81e

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/how-to-defragment-disks-in-Windows-7/949c847b-b1fb-445C-8445-8734ef91f17f

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/c-drive-does-not-appear-in-Disk-Defragmenter-after/4a121b3e-530b-4f4a-a6d1-66235cb1301f

• Satellite A200-PSAF6A - white screen, will not start

  I've had for about a year or more now, out of warranty, and I had no problems so far. The operation of the machine is perfect, done a little warm here and there, but I never had blockages of material etc. The problem lies in the boot process where it lights up but the screen remains black and the HARD drive activity light flashes once, the optical reader clicks like it normally does at the start, and all the normal power supply/battery lights are as they should be, but the laptop will not progress beyond that. The power led remains blue and there is not much activity from the hard drive or any part of the material. This not even the screen of the BIOS at all. At some point, which I suppose because I can't see a pattern emerging in any form, the laptop will emit several beeps and the HDD led starts to blink signifying a boot up is ongoing, but the screen remains blank. At this point, if I turn off the laptop holding the power button / I am sometimes able to start with the display work, but once these things are depend on chance then sometimes it works and sometimes it isn't. Is that a real problem for me because I use this laptop for school and I get sometimes it will feed any or he will, and I'll have to wait a certain amount of time, which could be easily half the class and when he does the beep hard distracted others which is quite annoying.

  Now, I went through a lot of similar topics and tried what was said, but to no avail of course. I tried to delete all the components (RAM, HDD, optical drive, Wifi etc.) and reinstalling them that sometimes only a temporary solution. In the RAM slot I have 800 mhz and 1x1GB 667 mhz-1x2GB, I tried various arrangements with the installed RAM and RAM I have around my house, but I have not yet come to a solution. I find that I can't start up with RAM in just the second slot, I guess it's probably normal, but if it's not please comment and tell me otherwise because I read about another solution to a similar problem a person should use the ram in the second slot to get his laptop to start.

  My suspicion is that it's to do with a kind of BIOS check or maybe a BIOS corrupted, that I could not resolve without a technician because I am already in the current version of the BIOS. I did not update the BIOS that is not. If not then I'll assume that it is just a fault of power on the motherboard circuit. It's a really weird problem because it works quite well after, and I don't think it's a hardware problem perfectly serious because he wouldn't if it was.

  Any help is appreciated on the topic, share your knowledge, if you have had a similar problem because whatever it is would be useful

  Thank you

  James

  I'm not 100% sure but I think that the graphics card can be removed. Maybe you have enough experience with replacement of equipment, but laptop disassembly without maintenance manuals can be risky.
  I really hope you know what you're doing. Maybe you should contact the nearest authorized and ask for help.

  BTW: Where you want to get the new graphics card Satellite A200?

• Add the new hard drive, windows does not start now

  OK, ill be as specific as possible here

  Ive always had a few hard drives in my computer at all times

  A few days ago, I had problems with my windows 7 install that I tabled to the installation while I had all of my hard drives connected at installation time.

  2 days ago I decided to start over fresh with a windows 7 ultimate 64-bit. I also bought a new 64gig OCZ SSD for my OS.

  I disconnected all my drives except the SSD and performed a complete installation of windows 7 and all a well worked first go again.
  I then started to shut down my computer and adding a hard drive to the times and re starting and in ensuring that the drive letters came back how I got them I had on my previous built and changing them were nessisary.

  I installed my 5 drives in this case and the computer rebooted fine and everything was perfect until!

  installed hard drives
  1 SSD 64 GB
  2. 1.5 TB of storage
  3. 1.5 TB of storage
  4. 320 GB movies
  5. 320 GB games

  I copied all HDD 4. movies (only movies and music files) on disk 3.
  then I removed the hard drive of 4 and replaced by a new hard disk 1.5 TB and restarted the computer
  the computer starts very well and once loaded windows I coppied the movies and music of the new 1.5 TB hard drive back.

  now, I had

  installed hard drives
  1 SSD 64 GB
  2. 1.5 TB of storage
  3. 1.5 TB of storage
  4 movies 1.5 to
  5. 320 GB games

  This is were the problem started. I restarted my computer and it wouldn't start. He gets the message of realteck and just a cursor flashes and remains like that permanently.

  If I remove the sata cable to the back of the hard disc 4 the computer starts fine
  I can plug the cable in just before the windows screen comes up and the hard drive works fine and is FLEURIDAS and all.
  but leave it plugged during the start of what the computer does nothing

  things I've tried, I made sure all my boot priorities are pointing to the SSD drive
  I have turned all devices normal priming and the hard drive with the OS selected
  Ive made sure that all the drive letters are correct on each drive
  Ive tried to get started with the windows 7 CD to get to the repair section and I click Repair tool, start it recconises there is a problem but informs me it can not be fixed automatically and asks me if I want to send the information to microsoft (which me).

  It's really made me this one any help will be great and thanks in advance

  just in case sick leave my system specs

  EVGA X 58 mobo
  INTEL Core i7 940
  6 GB of corsair ram
  all hard drives, you know
  1000 watt power supply
  2 X PALIT GTX 295 but SLI is not currently connected

  Hi AUST_DeVinE,

  ·         Please give us the exact error that you receive when you plug the SATA cable?

  ·         After you connect the hard drive, are you able to boot in safe mode?

  Check if you are able to boot in safe mode. Link: start your computer in safe mode:

        http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

  1. run chkdsk on this hard drive, follow the steps below and check, if it helps:

  i. connect the external hard drive

  II. starting the computer in the Windows recovery environment, you can check the link below: What are the system recovery options in Windows 7?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7

  III. run Chkdsk,

  Here are the steps to run chkdsk:

  i. in the command prompt window, type the following command and press enter Chkdsk/r X:

  II. Note: in this command, x is a placeholder that represents the drive letter of the volume you want to check.

  III. o press when you are prompted to check the drive the next time the system restarts.

  IV. restart the computer.

  Note: When you restart, Windows checks the drive for errors, and then Windows starts.

  Link, please refer to: Chkdsk: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730714 (WS.10) .aspx 

  2. you can even format the hard drive and check if this can help, see the below link for the same: Formatting disks and drives: frequently asked questions: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Formatting-disks-and-drives-frequently-asked-questions

  3 make sure you check the firmware updates and the updates of the system BIOS

  For updates and updates the system BIOS, contact the manufacturer of the hardware in the computer, refer to the following Web site:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/vendors/en-us 

  Not even verify that the system BIOS correctly detects the hard disk

  For more information about how to verify that the system BIOS correctly detects the hard disk, contact the manufacturer of the computer hardware.

  BIOS WARNING: Change to the BIOS/complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) settings can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the configuration of the BIOS/CMOS settings can be solved. Changes to settings are at your own risk.

  Thank you, and in what concerns:

  Samhrutha G S - Microsoft technical support.

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