Satellite A200-TH1: how to install XP-> HARD drive not detected

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• Satellite A300-1J1 - how to install 2nd HARD drive?

  Hello

  I bought a Satellite A300 and I see in the workbook loads it is possible to add a 2nd hard drive. So I bought one and when I opened the box of hard drive, I have not found a connector to connect to my hard drive. I think I have to install a SATA connector, but I have not found a way to proceed.

  Thank you

  PS: Excuse me if you find mistakes, I don't speak very well

  Hey,.

  If there is no second SATA connector on the motherboard it s not possible to install 2nd HARD drive because you can t add such a motherboard connector.

  As far as I remember there are other threads on A300 and 2nd drive HARD here in the forum and the point is that all A300 using the same case for laptop, but the mothers are different. So you can have a 2nd HARD drive Bay but not connector.

• Satellite L300 - cannot install Vista - HARD drive not detected

  My laptop model is Satellite L300. Model No.: PSLB0E-06U01HAR.

  I am facing problem with Windows Vista Home Basic.
  In the middle of the instalation, it does not detect the hard drive.
  Its shows me the error that is your hard drive erased or not connected the power cable.

  But I installed the operating system like UBUNTU successfully opened.

  Let me know how to solve this problem.

  Thank you

  Did you include the SATA driver?
  If this is not the case, this could be the reason why the HARD drive is not detected.

  However, you can disable the AHCI in the BIOS and it could spend in compatible mode. In this case the SATA driver is not important

• second hard drive not detected

  second hard drive not detected in my computer

  Hi focu25,

  1. do external hard drive or internal?

  2. you receive messages or error codes?

  3. you remember recent changes to the computer?

  You can try to start the hardware fixit and check if it helps:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/hardware_device_problems/en-us

  Hope this information is useful.

• Second SATA hard drive not detected by Bios and Device Manager

  Original title: second SATA hard drive

  Hard drive not detected by the Bios and the device under Vista Home Premiun Manager

  Hi trinitario,.

  Because the hard drive is not detected in the BIOS also, it may be due to a hard drive configuration that should be changed or a rider. If you need to get in touch with a Local tech-store for assistance.

  Note: change in 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.

  Hope this information is helpful
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• Satellite L10-209 - how to install the display driver for Windows 7?

  I formatted my * Satellite L10-209 * and * Windows 7 *. All the drivers installed fine but the * video card *: xD

  How to install the display driver (graphics card)?
  Tools & Utilities CD does not work with Win7,

  Hello

  I m wondering that you have installed Windows 7 on this good old classic. In my opinion Windows XP would be the best choice, but ok, you can do what you want ;)

  Anyway, AFAIK your laptop is equipped with an Intel graphics card then I recommend to download the driver form Intel directly because the Web from Toshiba site displays only the Windows XP display drivers.
  http://www.Intel.com

  Check this box!

• Satellite L655-1FO - how to install the audio driver?

  How to install the audio driver on my l655 1fo? I download the driver of toshiba, but it cannot start. Can someone help me how to install it on Windows XP. Thank you

  Hey,.

  Before starting with the installation of the driver it is important that you install Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, because it contains important updates for cards high definition sound. Otherwise, you are not able to install audio driver.

  Download & install SP3 and then you can start with the driver installation :)

• Hard drive not detected once, but now?

  Hello

  I am Zak, a bit of techno when it comes to playing with the software, or re-Assembly of computers and whatnot. Unfortunately, I have no idea about other things.

  Some quick history on my laptop: the fan was made terrible noises in recent weeks. Initially, I thought it was little dust, so I got a few duster. A lot of dust came out, so that can only be good, but the noise came back after a few days. After some research, I thought that the other logical explanation was probably the hard drive goes bad. I hesitate to send back to HP because I use it for all my college work and it would really put me back weeks to have it not.

  So, a few days ago I booted my computer laptop at a "drive not detected" - or very similar - message. There were a few options for f1 - f4, they were information system and 3 different tests (I think). I ran the tests, all of them came back fine, noting that there are no operating system installed, or a hard drive to boot from. I rebooted because I didn't quite start and wanted to see if there were other options. It turns out that he has started well. I restarted once more and again once it did it very well.

  Then, I coded around, back up all my data, gather warranty information, installation of the HP Support Assistant, etc. I ran all the tests help Wizard and there is no problems found. Since I just got the laptop hibernation when I stop using it, and I have not met any unusual problems. All this sounds great, but my warranty expires December 7 this year. It is safe for me to assume that the "drive not detected" error was just one missed? I read a lot of discussions and FAQS on him and it's not something that happens once and goes. However, I never had to use a warranty so not sure quite how the process works, and as I said, he sent everywhere would put me in my work.

  In order to be a full post, I have a HP G62 - 367DX laptop, running on Windows 7 64-bit OS, and as far as I know there no change was made between error and my prior boot. If there is any other information I can give you, let me know.

  See you soon, thank you for all help and good day

  The wizard tests are not as comprehensive or reliable as the drive hard test in the BIOS... tap F10 as you power up, go and find the hard drive test. Run the long form test and see what it says. It is not uncommon that the hard drive start as intermittent and get progressively more frequent problems. If your drive passes the test of long form, only enough safely, you can assume that it was a unique gremlin, but it's still a really good idea to back up. I like the idea of online backup services and I will quote Carbonite only because it is well known and not as an endorsement. There are several more and year external drive is a good idea.

  You can't put off forever; restarting You'll have to deal with the issue at some point.

• Pavilion 15-p080ca hard drive not detected in Win8, 03F1 0021 03F0 Bios errors, impossible to recover

  Hello

  I bought a new laptop from Windows 8 15-p080ca tigerdirect.ca Pavilion and he received a couple of days.

  The computer restarts randomly when working on it, I remember reading an IO error message in a popup windows.

  Since then, he constantly reboot, tries to load windows, fails and restarts until the auto repair is involved.

  Journal of the system BIOS has to many warnings and error: 03F0, 03F1, 0021.  I had about 3 times a hard drive not found error on POST.

  I can't repair the installation either by partition recovery or recovery discs, I get "the disc is locked error" or "auto repair could not fix your pc.

  Also Manager of recovery can not find the recovery partition.

  On the command prompt diskpart list disk;  "There is no fixed disk to show.

  However, the live cd Ubuntu and xp Mini are able to see all the partitions, view files and read them, a quick HDtune read test indicates no disk error.

  The computer is able to read disk hard since I am able to get on the recovery and windows tries to load until I get "your pc ran into a problem that he couldn't handle and must be restarted.

  HP PC Hardware diagnostic SMART test, short DST returns warning.  Diagnostic test of smart HP returned message 'no hard drive installed' only once.

  Whatever it is that the base Windows 8, if the recovery disc, original media is not able to see the hard drive.

  I tried to boot the recovery disc, the recovery partition with each combination of Legacy support and secure start to recover partitions without success because the hard drive is not detected (from diskpart list disk command).  The recovery DVDs, I get an error 0xefffff08. I also tried to remove the thought of recovery partition that he might want to move things faster.

  Well, after many hours of research and testing, I think I tried everything I could do and would need support for additional testing or replacement of the defective material.

  Thank you very much in advance for your help,.

  Jonathan.

  Contacted HP Support, laptop, go to the repair center.  Probably the location of the hard drive to the motherboard as they said.

• External hard drive not detected with the error: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  Hello

  I have an external hard drive to work perfectly. I'm back from vacation, and it does not appear under "My Computer". It appears under "Devices and printers", however. This is a link to a screencap of Device Manager: http://i.gyazo.com/9e91e1d71ed32c55dba0419e79b499d5.png

  The device in question is that of J:, and it says here that he has 100% free space, that worries me, because he had only 50 GB of free space when I used the latter. After that I open the disk management, I get a pop up message saying: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  How can I get my hard drive appears again?

  Thank you

  Original title: external hard drive not appearing is not in Windows 7

  Hi John,.

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I imagine the inconvenience that you are experiencing and will certainly help you in the right direction to solve the problem.

  According to the error message, I suggest trying the suggestions posted by the NakulShridhar responded on 14 October 2011 and by that alexquiteguy replied on 13 January 2011 in the thread following link and check if it helps.

  "You must format the disk in drive J: before you can use it"

  [Steps apply to Windows 7]

  Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

• Satellite A200 PSAE3E - how to install Win XP

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba A200 / PSAE3 - E.
  It came with vista home pre installed.
  I lost the recovery CD of vista and had problems with windows and therefore now load XP.

  I understand the 2 options that I can use to install XP on a SATA drive, however the two options help me much.

  # I see not all SATA settings in my BIOS (BIOS V5.6 / Phoenix TrustedCore). I played with most of the options, but still get a message "Setup has not found any hard drive" at the start of the installation of XP.

  # I was told to get an external floppy drive and download the SATA drivers. I did and downloaded "Intel Matrix Storage Manager - 7.5.0.1017", where I found a directory in there like 'F6flpy '. This directory contains 4 directories (ICH7M_32bit, ICH7M_64bit, ICH8M_32bit & ICH8M_64bit). I copied each one contained in 4 different disks. I thought "ICH7M_32bit" will work and it gave me the option to install the diving (Intel 82801GMB SATA AHCI Controller / Mobile ICH7M/DH) and I could even partition the disk after pressing F8 on the XP installation program.

  More I was also able to format the drive, but immediately after the message "in I get a message 'Insert the disk labeled Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver in drive A. press ENTER when ready'." I keep on pressing on enter, but the system even dose not attempt to read drive A (possibly the USB is disabled at this point?)

  Please let me know if anyone has a solution for me to upgrade the BIOS or download recovery DVDs full or run XP Setup another way.

  Kind regards

  > More I was also able to format the drive, but immediately after the message "in I get a message 'Insert the disk labeled Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver in drive A. press ENTER when ready'." I keep on pressing on enter, but the system even dose not attempt to read drive A (possibly the USB is disabled at this point?)

  This notification appeared because you formatted the partition or HARD drive where the SATA drivers were stored. The operating system therefore ask again for the SATA drivers.
  The point is that you shouldn't t format the HARD drive after than SATA drivers have been installed.

  But why you don t use the nLite. It s free tool that allows you to include files in Win XP disk SATA
  So you should be able to format the HARD drive because the SATA drivers are placed on the Win XP disc ;)

• Satellite A200-1MD: how to install drivers XP

  Hello! I recently bought a Satellite A200-1MD. He had installed Vista. Switched to XP, but there's a little mixup with the drivers.

  Can someone please make me a list of necessary drivers and their installation order?

  Have known this Modem drivers must be installed before the sound card... The same situation with other devices.

  WLAN - Intel, touchpad - Alps.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  First, it must choose the correct drivers for the series on the right laptop.
  As I remember the A200-1MD is a part of the series PSAE0E.
  You must choose that number of the form of downloading drivers!

  I chose this laptop series and selected XP drivers and... surprise, surprise :)
  . I found the installation instructions which shows necessary driver installation order!

  Please check this document and follow the guide line!

  Best regards

• Satellite U400-22z - how to remove the HARD drive recovery partition

  Hallo,

  My satellite u400-22z came with a big "hdd recovery" folder on the drive hard - yes I know what it does.
  but the unbearably awful version of windows vista that came with the machine made me decide that, in the event of failure of the system, I'm still will not install this failure of the attempt of an operating system.
  So I do not have these data recovery.

  So those ~ 11 GB of junk sitting on my drive is bugging me, I can't delete the folder HDDRecovery, it is somehow protected against deletion.

  How can I work around that?

  Also, is it safe or can I make it safe, to use the small apparently hidden partition (that's recovery also?) I found, which is IIRC ~ 2 GB or larger, for own purposes, without destroying my current installation of windows?

  Thanks in advance,
  Steve

  Hello

  If you have a recovery disk and you do not want to store the folder in hard drive hard disk recovery, you can remove it.

  > I can't remove the folder HDDRecovery, it is somehow protected against deletion.

  Remove you it as you always do to remove all files on your system.

• Satellite A200-1AH - need some advice for hard drive replacement

  Nice day

  I've been using a + A200-1AH + for three years. Unfortunately, I suffer from problem of free disk space. So, I decided to replace my drive with a new one.

  How can I know the HDD I buy will be suitable for my laptop?

  Can you please tell me what era the + key-points + I need to know when buying a new hard drive for my laptop?

  Post edited by: alicozgo

  I changed the subject, because it was so dumb. Why would I ask 'what hard drive buy' in a Toshiba forum :) what a forum administration...

  Hello

  Satellite A200 is a more recent series of laptops. This series of laptop use and support the SATA HDD controller and this means that you need a SATA HDD!

  The laptop runs the 2.5 hard drives. The speed of the HARD drive is not very important for compatibility so that you can choose 4200 RPM or other

  In addition the SATA controller has no limitation in size so THEORETICALLY, you should be able to use hard drives with 320 GB or more
  But in some cases rare BIOS would not be able to manage some HARD drive sizes, but this generally isn't the case

• Satellite 1410-902: how to remove a HARD drive

  Hello. Anyone know how to remove a disk for a Toshiba Satellite 1410 902?
  Open the Panel here, it's the HARD drive, but there is no obvious way to get it out... I don't want to force it.
  Thanks for the help.

  Luca.

  Hello

  The HARD drive slot is placed at the bottom of the unit. You don't have to remove the screw holding the cover of the slot. Then, you can simply remove the HARD drive.
  But be careful.