Satellite A660 - chkdsk partitions without drive letters

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• How to install Windows without recovery disc - Satellite A660 with new HARD drive

  Hey,.

  Portable 500 GB HDD of my friend Toshiba Satellite A660 seems to have died.
  I tied him to my laptop on a sata dock and runs a data recovery program because nothing has been saved. The recovery takes forever, however, and she really needs his computer to work.

  Because the hard disk may be damaged in any case, I am considering buying a new hard drive and install in the Toshiba.

  How can I do this without a recovery disk, though?
  The old drive was a partition recovery on it, I think, but this seems useless with a new drive.
  Operating system is Windows 7 64 bit home edition.

  The product key is on the bottom of the laptop.
  I live in Turkey and so I don't think there is a Toshiba store is close.
  There are individual computer stores, so I'm confident, I can buy a new internal hard drive (I could find the sata dock here), but he must know what to do to install the software, etc.

  Thank you!
  Chris

  > How can I do this without a recovery disk, though?

  You either have the recovery disk or you are going to install the system using the Microsoft Windows disk.
  The necessary drivers are in internet on Toshiba UE page.

  The recovery disc can also be ordered here:
  http://backupmedia.Toshiba.EU/landing.aspx

• Satellite P70-A01D: change the drive letters after the 2nd SSD upgrade

  I think it's a generic UEFI / Win 8.1 question (not according to model).

  However, FWIW, I have a Satellite P70-A01D (bought locally here in Australia).

  It is a victory of 16 GB 17.3 inch Gen4 i7 4700MQ Intel HM86 8.0 64-bit RAM.
  http://www.MyToshiba.com.au/products/computers/satellite/P70/psplpa-01d002/specifications

  I updated the OS to Win 8.1

  The P70 is supplied with a drive Bay HARD vacuum #2 - I bought a 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD that I want to use as the main system disk / boot Win 8.1.

  I installed this SSD in bays #2 and from there I had no problem using the wizard of Samsun cloning software provided with the SSD (VCC 4.0) to clone my 1 TB on the SSD system.

  There are a lot of instructions from Samsun and around the web on how to clone and "substitute" of a HDD with a SSD - however there are much less when it comes to 'Add' the SSD - in the #2 Bay - while always keeping the original HDD fully functional as an additional drive.

  After execution of the cloning software, I tried just go into the settings of the UEFI on reboot and change the order of the boot drive placing the SSDS over HARD drive.

  It worked but there are obviously questions still as I had not renamed readers SSD worked as system but he was editing as D: and HARD drive was still C: and most of the system/application paths were always scheduled to access C:!

  It led to the crash and restart cycles of the Bureau (? & or explorer.exe?) and two consistent error messages:
  -"SkyDrive engine Sync host has stopped working".
  -"Host for the synchronization setting process has stopped working".

  I saw in the Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Online Storage-online-online right click on each drive disk management online online that I can access > however
  (a) I'm not sure if the solution I need is this simple;
  (b) nervous about change of letter on a disk while running the system; and
  (C) uncertain steps in order of evolution [IE. C: (non - sys) becomes M; D: (sys) becomes C:...

  At the moment via UEFI I'm back to working with the system on the HARD disk rather than on the SSD seems stable and without compromise of my screwing around!

  Apologies for the long post by train to make sure to include all relevant information. I think that my final goal is double win bootable 8.1 / Ubuntu 12.04 of the SSDS probably with Ubuntu on a 50 GB partition leaving 200 GB (enough?). I want to keep a slab of SSD space available for photo and video editing: +/-100 GB!

  I wondered simply assign new letters to readers, however the notes at the bottom of http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter state:

  You cannot change a drive letter if the drive is a system partition or a boot partition.

  Suggestions please?

  Hello

  I think you could try to change the letter to readers as suggested in the Microsoft article.
  Where this is not possible, try to use 3rd party such as GParted software.
  http://gparted.org/LiveUSB.php

  You could try changing the drive letters might start to the top of the unit using the live USB version.
  But it might be possible that your system would not initialize correctly after this change.

  So you should not forget to mark the partition as bootable.

  Your comments would be appreciated

• Satellite A660 that partitions to copy by creating bootable clone?

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A660 running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Surf forum discussions, it seems that Toshiba has a unique way of partitioning the hard drive for a laptop. In disk management and Table of PowerQuest Partition editor, my 640 GB HARD drive has 4 partitions:

  Partition 1: Windows RE, 1.46 GB
  * ' Active', probably contains boot info
  * Not large enough to contain the Windows 7 image
  * Image of Windows 7 probably real in the score 3 or 4

  Partition 2: 559,5 GB NTFS C drive

  Partition 3: 22.37 GB hidden installed file systems

  Partition 4: 12.83 installed hidden GB file systems

  The closest that I could find for a description of partitions 1,3,4 is http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/619983-solved-mystery-partition-toshiba-notebook.html for a system of VISTA in 2007. Partition 1 is likely to start. Partitions 3 and 4 contain a kind of recovering files for other languages.

  I'll ask Technical Support on the partitions, I don't expect them to know. Even if they do, it's on the phone, that leaves me no documentation.

  (1) I was wondering if anyone can confirm (or point to the online documentation that confirms) the suspicion that precedes the goals and content of the partitions?

  (2) in addition, how can I know which partition 3 and 4 contain files of recovery for the language of the Windows 7 installation, which is English?

  (3) Finally, I intend to clone all partitions except the one containing the recovery of unused language files. This will be my first crack at the cloning or manipulation of the partitions in any way (never done a picture). This plan is sane?

  The intention is for the cloned HARD drive to be a fast replacement of full boot for the source HARD drive in its entirety. I use Norton Ghost. At this point, I'm not interested by creating usable images, although I could Explorer on the road.

  > Partition 1: Windows RE, 1.46 GB
  This partition is automatically created by Windows 7 this was the case even with Vista. This partition contains files that help to repair the operating system.

  > Partition 3: 22.37 GB hidden installed file systems
  > Partition 4: 12.83 hidden GB installed file systems
  This partitions could contains the Toshiba HDD image it is necessary to create an own recover disc and it provides HARD disk recovery options that help to recover the laptop without the use of recovery disks.

  (> 2) Furthermore, how can I know which partition 3 and 4 contain files of recovery for the language of the Windows 7 installation, which is English?

  The use of Toshiba disc creator recover the image of Toshiba in order to burn the recovery disk would not require to modify the image or files manually use the preinstalled software called Toshiba recover creator to create the recovery disk

  (> 3) Finally, I intend to clone all partitions except the one containing the recovery of unused language files. This will be my first crack at the cloning or manipulation of the partitions in any way (never done a picture). This plan is sane?
  Why you want to clone the recovery partitions? Create the first recovery disk this disc will fix the laptop always factory settings which means that the HARD disk should be formatted and would create a new time all partitions.

• 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 L755D - data partition D drive is full

  I have a problem with the data drive on my Toshiba Satellite L755D. He easily gets full.

  Right now:
  (Translated from Danish)

  40,18 GB datafiles Securitycopy
  Photo 106,26 GB system
  Another 15,08 GB files
  71,52 GB of free space

  I just deleted one of the securitycopies of data files, because there were only 21 MB of free space left on the Datadrive.

  Why is there so much on the D drive?
  And why it gets full, so often? It's really annoying.

  I had many other computers, but never had this problem before, I got this Toshiba.

  I don't know what you have moved or stored on the D partition, but Toshiba portable computers were pre-installed with a system and on the D partition, there is a folder of images from Toshiba that contains image files. This folder of the image and the image recovery files are used for HARD drive recovery and are needed to create own recovery or Memorystick flash recovery discs.

  HARD disk recovery allows you to recover the computer laptop back to factory settings without a recovery media usage.
  But if this folder or partition D would be changed, the recovery of HARD drive would not work.

• Satellite A660 - 11 M optical drive will not write to CD or DVD

  I got my A660 for about 9 months and it was burning without any problem but about a month ago, I tried to burn a DVD and the operation failed.

  Since then, I have tried a number of different CD & single layer / double layer DVD which all failed.

  I also ran the factory reset to recreate the image on the laptop, but the same problem persists.

  The drive seems to be written the drive normally until the end when it fails, then there is no visible trace on the disc and the machine will always be recognizes it as empty.

  There seems to be no problem in playing discs, just write down them.

  Does anyone know if there is an update of the firmware available for the reader?

  Which app to use for writing to the disc?

  To be honest I have think don firmware t update will change anything. I assume that there must be a problem with the calibration of the lens.

• Re: Satellite a660 - problem with HARD drive!

  Hello!

  When I turned on my computer this morning, first time I heard the HARD drive worked very noisy. It was like buzzing and clicking, has never been like that. Computer is 3 months old, bought in the pc world.

  If anyone can help what to do?

  Thank you

  Hello

  > he was like a buzzing and clicking on... Was never like that. Computer 3 months ago.

  Sometimes, this can happen with the new hard drive too. I recommend you save all data, if it stops working. In case you, I communicate with the service center and ask them to replace. they will do it for free. you see, it looks like mechanical problem and don't think you can fix it yourself

• Satellite A100 - resolution custom without driver?

  Hello
  This may sound weird but I just thought it would be great if it worked.

  The thing is that my laptop has problems to start due to a default graphics card, IF the driver is enabled. For now I can't play the games or anything that requires a graphics card, but I can still use it to draw etc, until I have repair.

  My problem is that when I draw something, it actually does not show how it looks 'really' because resolutions possible only windows offers me are a little distorted (a circle looks like for me to circle, but others see an oval, you get the point?)

  So is there any software or anything else that can help me with that?

  I'm grateful for any help!

  Thanks a lot for the comments

• Satellite A660 - need to display driver

  Hey,.

  the hard drive of my computer recently failed and I lost part of my drivers. Thus, for example, I lost the driver for the mouse (which was easily downloadable and fixed).

  But I also think that I lost the display driver, so now its running a "Non - PnP monitor generic on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" (as in my laptop seems to work my screen like component completely separate from himself) of those which has a resolution of 1024 x 768, on a computer screen in 1366 x 768 (and it is non - 3D) while you can imagine its great not having a stretched screen.

  Also my keyboard shines no more, this wired on the same driver or do I need another? (this system was just patched up by TI guy)

  So... I was wondering, can I download and install the Toshiba display driver and make it work?
  If I download and install the driver display Toshiba it will fix these problems? and if he used / is not what is the next action plan?

  If you could answer these questions, it would be very appreciated by me, and if you need more information, feel free to ask on this thread.

  Thank you.

  > can I download and install the Toshiba display driver and make it work?
  Why not?

  See European driver of Toshiba available for this model of laptop graphics card drivers.
  The European driver page can be found here:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com

• Alternative to the reset by Satellite A660 for potential HARD drive problem

  In the last week or two, I got a few blue screens, saying he was driving demand, and that windows must be shut down to avoid damage my computer.

  I have just restart and continue working.
  The last time it happened, I had repeatedly "initialization failed" and it says hdd, SDS, fdd. If I pressed the power button until I didn't see no signs of activity, then started. Things went well. I called Toshiba support and they recommended that I go home and save my files before continuing. It took hours selectively to clean, sort the previous backups, and a small footprint of the backup system.

  When I called Toshiba once again, they recommended a "takeover", which is restoring the factory settings. It puts me in the stone age. I have to go through a never-ending process of the upgrade to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, install and reconfigure all the applications and environments/configurations, etc. It will essentially take on holiday, if not more. I'll also have to get another computer (maybe a netbook) to stay in touch while I restart my laptop. It's barely more than a year.

  Is there a diagnosis I can do to determine the probability that there is a hard drive problem? Support for Toshiba said that is the surest way, because it provides a diagnostic F10 for the hard disk code, and it also pushes the bad sectors at the end of the disc (logically, I suppose, since you can't physically move a fault).

  > About Hitachi DFT, is it important that my HARD drive is Toshiba mk6465gsx? This is what is displayed "Hard drives" in the Device Manager.

  It s no matter what HARD drive manufacturer, it is the Drive Fitness Test is able to scan all hard drives to find errors.

  > Also, http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/#DFTshows links to create boot disks, but I was wondering if I could create a bootable instead.

  Not sure if this is possible if there is that one option to create a startup disk, and then a flash stick does not work. But of course you can try this out.

  > This laptop does not come with a floppy drive, and I still create coasters trying to burn discs.
  You don't need the floppy drive, the tool must create a disk bootable (CD)

  > I guess that the same question can be asked on Memtest86. Another issue is the relevance of Memtest86 for my system. My c drive has a "Program Files" folder, but also a "Program Files (x 86)" folder for 32-bit applications. Memtest86 is for the x 86 architecture. I don't know if my 64-bit Windows 7 involves a non - x 86 architecture.

  I guess that Memtest86 should also work on Win 7 64 bit systems. But also the MemTest 4.20 is 64-bit capable

• Satellite A660 - FN keys without function

  Hi, once again its me :D

  in any case, I noticed that FN + f keys do not work. I can't lock my computer with him, I just can't cut it with fn + esc, I can't adjust brightness with fn + f6, f7 and so on.

  Any ideas what could be? Function of the lighted buttons work perfectly :) I ve see the thread where the settings button mad crazy go after you install VM workstation but I also solved this problem through your forum (thnx).

  So no idea why the fn + f keys does not? What should I do?

  Thank you in advance!

  Hi Sanka_2,

  Yes, there is a solution here in the forum for the FN keys if you install VMware... As I remember you must change or delete some registry keys.

  Anyway, FN keys are controlled by value added and Flash Cards Support utility package. In your case, I recommend the resettlement of these tools. This means remove older versions, restart the computer and install the latest versions of the official page of Toshiba.

  Check this box!

• What HARD drive I can use on my Satellite A660-13D?

  Hello

  I'm looking for any compatible for a Toshiba SATELLITE A660-13D hard disk drive as the one inside is dead now.

  This model comes with the laptop is a TOSHIBA MK6465GSX 640 GB, SATA 3 Gb/second 5400 RPM 2.6 revision

  Official suppliers of Toshiba quoted me 130 euros por the same model.

  I can't have such model through any other store or the internet.

  There are a lot of different new TOSHIBA HDD in the market with the largest capacity and much less expensive than the MK6465GSK.

  Can I install any new toshiba HDD on my SATELLITE A660-13D?

  Is there any toshiba page where I can find out what toshiba HARD drive are compatible with my SATELLITE?

  Thanks in advance for your answer.

  Fernando

  What you need is 2.5 SATA HDD and it may be Toshiba but it may also be of some other manufacturers. You don't need anything special. If possible consult your dealer and they can help you choose one that suits.

  Now, when you need a new HARD drive maybe you should think about upgrading with SSD. Disc SSD is much faster and use of SSD with your laptop will rapidly increase the performance of s for laptop.

  More info on SSD, you can read on http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/index.html

  If you have any other questions you are welcome.

• Satellite A660 - DVD player does not recognize some DVD

  I have a new Satellite A660-17th with a drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT30N, running under Windows 7 64-bit.

  The reader will read most DVDs. Commercial DVD (region 2) are very good. However, there are problems with the DVD recorded with DVD recorders. Recordings of DVD + R using a Philips machine work very well. DVD + R and DVD - R using a Sony HDX 1095 of RDR machine do not work.

  I hope that the disc is ok and that this problem can be solved by changing some settings or other?
  Any ideas?

  Hey,.

  If commercial DVDs are working properly, it s final related to your own created DVD recorder of DVD.
  It s knows not to adjust something on the DVD player without region code

  In my opinion, you should test different brands of DVD to check which is compatible with all devices.
  My favorite is Verbatim DVD - R TDK also makes good discs

  Check this box!

• Re: Unable to update BIOS on Satellite A660

  My laptop Toshiba Satellite A660 from the hard drive (psaw3a-07t00r) does not so I bought a new one (WD500BEVT) when I put in the laptop and try to install windows, it tells me
  "This computer hardware cannot support the start on this disc, make sure that the drive controller is enabled in the computer's Bios menu"

  In the bios, the only option I could find associated is the SATA controller Mode which when changed to compatibility, it will not boot the disk and just shows a white screen.
  So I thought that I would update the bios, I borrowed a friend's hard drive and installed windows to him as well as all of the current drivers and programs of toshiba but when I try to update the BIOS, he said
  The program will be closed
  There is an error occurred, please check the items below.
  BIOS version is greater than 230.
  Battery capacity more than 20%.
  AC is attached

  So I don't know what the problem is I have the attached power and the battery is fully charged.

  Hello

  The history is somewhat strange. With friends, HARD drive, everything is OK, but with one is not new. Is it not suspicious somehow for you?
  Is that the BIOS update, I think, won't help you any, because with the update of the BIOS, you may not receive certain additional options, so in the whole BIOS update is not so important.

  I don t know that HDD was inside, but my opinion is that you should order the same or buy another HARD drive.
  I ve checked specification for WD500BEVT and for me it's OK.
  Have you tried to set the BIOS for the parameters by default until you ve started installing Windows?