Satellite 5100 503: HDD upgrade question

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  I have a TOSHIBA SATELLITE 1800-S274 P III 1.1 G 512 MB with XP PRO Spanish

  Part c: PS183U-00JRSPNC Serial Nr: 32014957PU
  The keyboard and the OS is Spanish.

  The HARD drive was accident, restart the PC, with a blue windows with the error text impossible to read because it quickly restart again.
  Cannot access the HARD disk also with other means or connected to another PC boot disk.

  PROBLEM 1) what type of disk HARD can I put up what capacity?
  (the original HARD drive is MK2018GAP. Capacity 20 GB 4200 RPM ATA4)
  I read on the net that is perhaps the BIOS accept more than 60 GB or HDD companies other than Toshiba. Is this true?

  In my country, the best ratio price/GB is a 80 or 120 GB 5400 RPM also label of Toshiba.
  I put these?

  Here is a best value of HARD drive:
  Toshiba 40 GB 5400 RPM UDMA100 (MK4032GAX)
  Toshiba 60 GB 5400 RPM UDMA100 (MK6034GAX)
  Toshiba 80 GB 5400 RPM UDMA100 (MK8025GAS)
  Toshiba 80 GB 5400 RPM UDMA100 (MK8032GAX)
  Toshiba 80 GB 5400 RPM UDMA100 (MK8026GAX)
  Toshiba 120 GB 5400 RPM UDMA100 (MK1234GAX)

  PROBLEM 2) I can not find my installation CD of Spanish XPpro but my laptop has a certificate of authenticity Microsoft of OEM.
  I contacted Microsoft, they say I have to ask the builder OEM installation with a CD XPpro OEM but there not sure they give me this.
  I don't want to buy a new OS, and I can't restore it because the HARD disk is damaged.

  How can install OS on the new HARD drive?

  My laptop its 6 years if I have to buy the HARD drive and OS XPpro is not a good deal.
  Maybe I can try to install an old Win 2000 pro I have. Do you think that it work on my type of laptop? And readers are available for my type of laptop?

  Thanks a lot for your help

  I also believe that you can use the 60 GB HARD drive for this oldie.

  Please don't be crazy about me, but how you want to install the operating system if you don't want to buy the CD of facilities? If someone give you something for free or what. You can try to order the original recovery media, but in my opinion, it is not in stock, or you can buy the CD of original Microsoft facilities. If you check eBay you can find a used one and have it for little money.

• Satellite Pro 4600: HDD upgrade question

  Hello.

  I decided to upgrade my Satellite Pro 4600 a 20 GB hard drive to a 60 gig.
  Only, I get a blank screen.
  When I go back my 20 original concert, it works well.
  Y at - it a special procedure for the Assembly of the larger disks?

  The BIOS recognizes the HARD drive correctly?

  Perhaps the size of the HARD drive is too big and so you have a few problems with the laptop.

  The fact is that not all HARD drive sizes are supported and the BIOS recognizes all drives, if the size is too large. Therefore, you should try a smaller HARD drive

• Satellite P100-286 - HDD upgrade question

  I'm looking in the upgrade of my HDD, i.e. with the P100-286 Fujitsu MHV2200BT. I would like to find a disk with a RPM faster and perhaps a slightly greater capacity also.

  I found the information on the MHV2200BT and see that there is a box slightly larger than most portable 2.5 "HDD. SA is 12.5 mm height, rather than the usual 9.5 mm.

  This will make unfit to buy another HARD drive?
  I need to find another housing or casing for HARD drive?

  Here are the stats on the current model... http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/mobile/mhv2200bt-sata.html

  I think to do this HARD drive to replace it... http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/320-GB-Western-Digital-WD3200BJKT-Scorpio-Black-25-SATA-300-7200-rpm-16MB-Cache-12-ms

  Thank you for any additional information.

  Hello

  Hmm the old HDD is 12.5 mm and the new is 9.5mmm
  Well I put t exactly how the HARD drive has been mounted in the P100 of boyfriend but in many cases, the HARD drive is placed in the media (media).

  If the new HARD drive would mingle not with this support.

  But why you put take t a 12.5 mm HARD drive? There are a lot of 2.5, 12.5 mm, SATA hard drive that would be 100% compatible with your laptop!
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• Satellite M70 258: HDD upgrade question - what is the maximum size supported

  I need to upgrade the hard drive from my Toshiba Satellite M70-258.
  I would like to know what is the maximum size of the disk that I can install it.
  I would like to know if it is suportts Sata drives.

  Thank you in advance.

  Best regards

  Fernando Silva

  The problem is that there is no official information on the maximum size of HARD drive on laptop series different. If we can only speculate on the supported formats.

  But I found it here in the forum:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=93195𖰋

  The user has updated the own M70 with the 160 GB drive HARD Toshiba MK1637GSX and it works.
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• Satellite A100-386 - HDD upgrade question

  Hello everyone and happy new year.

  First of all, sorry for my bad English.

  I bought a Satellite A100-386 a few years and I'm really happy, but my hard drive has failed.
  So, I wanted to know if I could put a 2.5 "SATA II disk, like this.

  http://www.materiel.NET/Disque-Dur/Hitachi-Travelstar-5k500-b-s-ATA-II-250-go-8-mo-48900.html

  because when I see the characteristics of the satellite, they mention a hard drive with only S - ATA.
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  I just want to know, can I change my 250 GB, 8 MB, 5400 RPM SATA HDD in my laptop with this one
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  I think that the laptops BIOS should recognize the new HARD drive.
  The new HARD drive is a SATA HDD and it's the most important thing.

  You need a 2.5 SATA HARD drive!
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• Satellite A100-599 - HDD upgrade question

  My laptop would build [WD Scorpio Bule 500 GB | http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=506]?

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• Help! Satellite 5100 - 503 has stopped working!

  Hello!
  I have a Satellite 5100 503 and was really satisfied until yesterday.
  Now it has stopped working.
  What I did: closed the laptop after work (everything is ok) and it only stems for a while. When I opened the laptop again to continue working, nothing happened.
  Only the small frontdisplay showed me a spinning CD (no CD inserted) and battery light. After pressing the button on the sur-signe appeared, but nothing happened again. By pressing the button again (a few seconds), do go away on-sign. No display, no fan, no noise of hard disk in any case (ono/stop). Insert an audio CD and works by pessing the play button! Soundsystem works well.

  Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?
  questions? more info needed? Thanks for asking!

  Help, please
  Günther

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  have you tried to remove the battery for about 5 to 10 minutes! It seems that the laptop is unable to start the file hibernation to start windows. You can also try to push the button to start for 5 seconds.

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• Satellite 5100 503: engraving of a 800 MB CD

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  Maximum capacity of a CD in the drive DVD/CD of the Satellite 5100 503 combo seems to be 703 MB. Is there a solution to burn CD 800 Mb / 90 minutes?

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  Hello

  you want to burn a CD 800MB real or you want to overwrite it?

  Did you check whether a new firmware is available?

  What OS and burning program are you using?

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• Troubleshoot the Bluetooth Manager on Satellite 5100 503

  After update the latest driver bluetooth (version 3 July 2005), the bluetooth Manager will not start at all: a saying "TosBtMne.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" error message, and no bluetooth services are available.
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  My laptop is quite slow. I want just to speed up its performance.
  Thank you outthere

  This old laptop model is certainly not longer supported and you do not find an update on the Toshiba support page. What you can do is to look around to find the laptop with the same graphics card, but maybe with newer driver and try to install it.

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• Need suggestion about the optical drive for Satellite 5100 503

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  I have a little trouble with CD-RW/DVD for Toshiba Satellite 5100 503 drive. He writes about 1/5 CD - r and only if I write< 400mb="" of="" data.="" i="" tried="" cleaning="" the="" lens="" -="" no="" help.="" tried="" both="" win="" xp="" writing="" software="" and="" nero="" -="" no="">
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  Hi Piotr,

  You can replace your new CD burner with vurtually any DVD burner that is the same physical size, but you should make sure that the new Recorder has a set-up similar to your current drive configuration.

  In general, the reader will be configured as Master, Slave and Cable Select (Csel), by the manufacturer and must match the configuration of your current player. One of the tools of Nero will show you the current drive configuration.

  Unfortunately, most retailers do not show configuration and with slim-line readers, there is no DIP switch that allows you to change it.

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• Problems of restoration Satellite 5100 503

  Hi all
  I have a Toshiba Satellite 5100 503, and its hard drive has malfunctiond, so I had to replace it with a new, but now I can't use the restore CD I got with the computer.
  Could someone help me with this?
  Thanks in advance.

  > but continues to load windows
  How laptop computer can load windows if the new HARD drive is not contains a BONE?
  Or have you installed the Win operating system on any other way?

  To me, it seems that the laptop does not start on the recovery CD.
  The drive cannot read recovery CD because of the fault of CD or disk failure.

  Have you checked whether it of possible to boot from another bootable CD s?

  Tip: try to set the BIOS default and safe settings. Then turn on the laptop and press F12 immediately after starting the laptop. The start menu should appear and you should be able to choose the CD as a boot device.

• Satellite 5100 503: change the HARD drive and start questions

  My hard drive in my Satellite 5100 broke down and I want to change it.

  According to various posts in the forum, it is not possible to start the 5100 from a CD when there is a (new) hard drive in the machine. And the only way to change the boot sequence is via Windows - what does more - there is no other way to change the settings of the BIOS within Windows.

  I looked in the manual - I find no mention after pressing F12 C or any other combination to change the boot sequence (of course I tried yet without result). The only thing I found possible is to press ESC + F1 for BIOS settings default _restore_. And turning the power on by pressing on the left of the space bar gives me the opportunity to Flash a new BIOS.

  Is this really so? Because that would mean I'm stuck. And in this case I will just save the money for the new hard drive and throw my laptop... (and probably by another brand next time - but I sincerely hope that is not so much...)

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  Thomas

  Nice. ;)
  To my knowledge, it was always possible to boot from the CD. Also, after replacing the HARD drive