Re: Satellite C850 unbootable - broken HARD drive

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• Satellite A210-ICO - what HARD drive I can use?

  I'm getting bad sectors on the hard drive of my laptop, so I guess I should pay for a new one – but who are able to A210-1CO?

  TA, M

  Hello

  Satellite A210 uses SATA hard drives and you need a new HARD drive with SATA interface. You can buy each HARD drive you want, for example 160 or 320 GB. On interface SATA there is no capacity limit.

  In addition, most SATA HDDs have already SATA2 interface but its compatible downgrade to SATA1.
  I would have preferred a HARD disk at 5400 RPM. Of course, you can buy a HARD drive with 7200 RPM, but they produced more heat and noise. For most of the applications are pretty 5400 RPM.

  I have good experiences with Hitachi and Seagate hard drives.

  Good bye

• Satellite A60 - question of HARD drive replacement

  I have an old Toshiba Satellite A60. The HARD drive died recently and I'm looking to replace it. I want to know what disk drive specification, the Toshiba Satellite A60 can support. It originally had a MK3025GAS
  HDD2196B ZE01 S 30 GB 2.5 "drive.

  1. I would like to replace it with a larger capacity drive. What is the capacity (GB) and speed the A60 can bear?

  2. do I need to replace it with a toshiba drive or can I use any other 2.5 "drive (Seagate, Fujitsu, etc...)?

  Hello

  As far as I know the old Satellite A60 supports one IDE controller.
  This means that you must use a 2.5 IDE (ATA) HARD drive.
  As far as I know the older IDE controller are limited to 128 GB with 28-bit LBA (address logic bit).
  Then maybe you should start with a 120 GB HDD, which must be compatible, even if the controller would be limited to 128 GB.

  But standard ATA-6 (also called TONGA-100) does support 48 bit LBA in this case, it is not limited to 128 GB. You can check controller HARD drive using tools such as SANDRA or Everest Home Edition freeware soft for the information on the controller built in the A60.

  > 2. Do I need to replace it with a toshiba drive or can I use any other disk 2.5 "
  You can use any HARD drive that meets the requirements (IDE, 2.5)

• Broken hard drive

  It seems that I have a broken hard drive. Received the message, boot device not found 3f0. Ran the diagnostics and it says I have no hard drive. Has taken the drive hard on and put it back in and got the same message. If I put a new hard drive in what I have to buy windows 7 new or hp will give me the derivers? Also I never did it so what is the next step after installing the new hard drive? I have a 500 GB hp cell g6.

  Thank you

  You should not use those at all. I hope that you have a form any instructions on receipt of the CDs. All you need to do is start Windows using the CD and everything should go smoothly.

  If you feel that my posts are to help you, feel free to mark it with a Kudos. Do you have other questions that I could answer?

  Mario

• Satellite A200 UH1 - 2nd hard drive Bay

  Hi all!

  Could someone explain me how to connect a second HDD in secondary housing of this laptop?

  I opened the cover, but there is no plug or the connector to install a.

  What I see, seems I have to buy a few extra parts, but I have no idea what.
  The manual is saying that he has this Bay (so it is usable as Toshiba worth to write his presence in the manual).

  Can someone help me?

  I really wish for reason practical for a keg external HDD will reduce the autonomy of the laptop when it is on battery.

  Thank you!!!

  If you want to connect a second disk of this machine slot that there must be a connector and if you don t have a t, you can put in a second HDD.
  Not every Satellite A200 has such connector.
  On the second HARD drive Bay, I founded the following information in the user manual:
  > HDD2: the availability of this functionality depends on the model you have purchased

  But you can use a second HDD in the slot of the CD/DVD drive. For this you can use a Bay for a second HDD.
  Ask an ASP for this part. They can order.

• Satellite M40X-189: update HARD drive - what is the maximum capacity of the HARD drive?

  I have money to upgrade the standard 60 GB to something big.
  What maximum HARD drive will recognize the motherboard?

  Toshiba Satellite M40X-189

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Equium M40 is very similar to Satellite M40.

  I searched the forum and that you have found these threads:

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=107666𚒒

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=115390𜊾

  Seems that a 120 HDD would go.

• Satellite Pro M70 - what HARD drive can you recommend?

  I have Satellite Pro M70 and I have a 60GB HDD that I see what it s SATA 8 MB of buffer memory. The processor it s 1.73 GHz. I see that there is the Samsung typical 160 GB and the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 160 GB at the same price, which is better?

  And for only $ 11 more there's a Scorpio blue Western digital 320 with even 8 MB buffer than other 2. But I don t think so 320, that's a lot for Satellite Pro M70, and I have an external drive 2.5 "250 GB, data with this is not problem.

  What the best solution for this laptop? I don t want to burn now the phone LOL.

  Thank you

  Hello

  If your laptop is already equipped with SATA interface, you can use each HDD with SATA1 or SATA2 port on the new SATA interface there is no limit on the old standard IDE

  It s your choice what HARD drive you buy because I put t know your needs, but in my opinion it makes no difference which manufacturing you buy the HARD drive. All hard drives are similar and there is no significant difference (performance).
  I made good experiences with Western Digital and Hitachi hard drives.

  By the way: you can buy a HARD drive with 7200 rpm or 5400.rpm. Latter is faster but requires more power. In my opinion, this is useful if you often work with large files.

• Satellite A60 - 102 - what HARD drive is possible

  What capacity of hard drive used in this laptop

  Hello

  Satellite A60 is a little older series and I think that the laptop supports the IDE HDD controller
  Perhaps the HARD disk controller support for only 28 bit LBA, which means that only 128 GB would be recognized by the BIOS.

  I think a 120 GB HDD should work but I'm not sure if the biggest hard drives would be supported due to mentioned m 28-bit LBA

  Welcome them

• Satellite A200 - question format HARD drive after replacing

  Hello

  I know this is probably a stupid question to ask as I am not that great with computers.
  I have problems with my hard drive from my Toshiba Satellite A200 laptop.

  Now, when I took it out it was a 120 GB so I bought another Seagate 320 GB hard drive to replace it.
  Now can I just put it back in or do I have to format the known brand hard drive.

  So if anyone can help it would be much appreciated

  Thank you

  Hello

  New HARD drive should be recognized by the laptop properly.
  If you purchased a HARD drive 2.5 SATA, so I put t see serious reasons why this HARD drive is not working.

  Once the HARD drive has been replaced, boot from the Toshiba Recovery disk and follow the instructions on the screen. The HARD drive must be formatted during the installation procedure
  That article should work

• Satellite P750 - 10 c: HARD drive slows down - Sandy Bridge Cougar problem?

  Hello

  I have problem with my notebook Satellite P750 - 10 c with S/N: 4B478828K.
  When I enabled AHCI in the BIOS, computer slows diametrically, day after day was worste and worste, so I tried to change from AHCI to IDE and it helped a little, but is still not good.

  I tried to restore my system, but it did not help.
  I read that Intel has released a version tapped for Sandy Bridge chipset, I have (HM65) SATA 3Gbs problem (I just checked in HD Tune and HARD drive is connected to the port of 3Gbs), so I think I got bugged version.

  My laptop is not guaranteed, but Intel said they changed valid version, so where do I return my phone to fix.

  Kind regards
  Tomek

  > I read that Intel launched buggy version of the chipset for Sandy Bridge.
  The problem was a Cougar Point of Sandy Bridge chipset and not the main processor Sandy Bridge.

  In addition Intel said that this issue affected only the SATA 2 to 5 and not ports 0 and 1.
  Most laptops use only two devices SATA (HDD/SSD and ODD) using the affected ports 0 and 1.
  That is why I think that your problem could be linked to the issue of Cougar Point the Sandy Bridge chipset.

  By the way: not all Intel Sandy Bridge chipsets have been affected.

  Regarding your question:
  Usually if AHCI is enabled, the HARD drive must use the performance of SATA. If compatibility mode, the HARD drive would go at the speed of the IDE.
  I think your problem is perhaps related to the problem drive HARD and not Intel problem.

• Satellite Pro A120-128 - HARD drive upgrade

  Hello

  I'm seriously exhausted on HARD disk space and want to upgrade my HARD drive in my Satellite Pro A120 128. Is there a maximum size that I can update? This model takes SATA or IDE?
  Any suggestions on make & model disk HARD upgrade to?

  THX!

  Normally it should not be a problem to use a HARD drive this lager s like 137 GB because as much as I know there is no limit of capacity on SATA interface.
  But as said Akuma, test it before buying this drive.

  However, an IDE HDD does not fit in this notebook

• Satellite A660 - protection of HARD drive utility does not enable protection

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A660 1F6, unfortunately the usefulness of Toshiba HDD protection does not enable protection because all the buttons are gray, and when I try to open it, a message appears: "He was not able to set up properly for the Service of HARD drive Protection System."

  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the situation does not change.

  Thank you.

  Are you using the original operating system preinstalled that you got with your laptop?

• Satellite M30 - what compatible HARD drive can I use?

  Hello

  My Satellite M30 hard drive crashed (after 3 years of intensive use). I would like to replace it, but I don't know which drive is suitable (SATA, ATA 6... etc). The original for this computer hard disk is the MK6021GAP.

  Can someone hep me on this subject? By the way, is - it complicated to replace the hard drive on this computer?

  Thank you

  Use the advanced search of this forum and you will get several results with different threads on the same topic.
  The replacement is not difficult. At the bottom f the unit, you will find a HARD drive Bay. Armand, remove the cover and cut the shape of the disk of the controller. But be careful.

• Satellite M35X-S149 dead hard drive - need advice

  Hi all.

  My old Toshiba Satellite M35X-S149 had a dead hard drive. I took it for repair, but they said it could not be repaired and they could not recover the information about it.

  I think to be auctioned on eBay for parts only. I wonder if all the data that might be on the hard drive can be hacked somehow. I doubt if there is anything that it doesn't matter who would be able to do anything with anyway, but I would like the opinion of someone who knows more about this kind of thing than me.

  Thanks in advance for any ideas or advice.

  Carla

  Hey Buddy,

  Why you n t remove the HARD drive before you sell the laptop? I would never sell a HARD drive on eBay because some people try to restore the data. If I have a HARD drive that I don't need more, I use it as HARD drive external or I trash because cheap hard drives these days, you get can 500 GB for about 50 Euros.

  Finally, and especially if the HARD drive is really bad, nobody seems so just remove and sell your laptop without HARD drive. ;)

• System recovery satellite M50 after replacing HARD drive

  Hello

  The drive of my laptop Satellite M50 becomes rather clicky and looks like it's on its way. Replacing, it will not present any problems, but I will replace it with a drive of at least double the capacity of origin.

  At one point, I had installed a Linux system and when I tried to reinstall my Windows system on a partition that is smaller than the entire recovery cd disk threw a wobbly and refused to proceed as it did not recognize the hardware profile of my portable computer, that the drive was too small.

  I expect the same thing to be true once I upgraded the HARD drive.

  How can I avoid this problem?

  Thanks in advance

  PK

  I would like to clone the old drive if it is an option.

  Pete