Satellite M30x - drive destination not valid

Hi all

I have a Toshiba Satellite M30x. I get the following error:

--------------------------------------------------------
Error number: (11030)
Message: Invalid destination drive

Problem: Can't get it back, it does not start up Windows XP, so I need to get it back. When I put the recovery DVDs, Reovery comes to ask...

'1... recover the entire hard disk.
2... mode Recovery expert
3... exit ".

I choose the number one, once I pressed 1, a similar screen comes up saying...

"Attention!"
The contents of the hard drive should be removed

1... continue
2 Cancel... ".

Again, I press 1 to continue.

The screen turns off again and Toshiba screen flashes for less than a second and goes off again with the words

"!!!!! ERROR!
Press a key to continue... "

Once I press any key, the screen remains blank with this message now on the LCD:

"Date: Thu Nov 4 08:57:48 2005.
Error number: (11030)
Message: Invalid Destination drive

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(PgUp] / [PgDn] [ESC] ")

Once I press ESC, this screen rises and this is where I can't go further:

X:\ >
X:\ >
--------------------------------------------------------
It is where I am stuck and cannot go any further.

Earlier, I had a similar problem:
-----------------------------------------------------
Internal error 27051

An internal inconsistency was detected. If the problem persists, contact the center of TOSHIBA or contact Symantec technical support.

Error number: Message (11030): invalid destination drive
---------------------------------------------------------

M30X used to raise more than one occasion in itself. That's why I used a recovery DVD. "Internal error 27051" disappeared, but I'm stuck with the error 11030.

Regrads,
Bruce

Hi Bruce,.

It seems to me that if your hard drive has failed. Your laptop starts properly since the recovery CD, and when you acknowledge the warning message from the routine of the recovery that the system should try to format your hard drive before copying them to the operating system; I think that the format routine cannot access your hard disk correctly.

The recovery CD using a version of Norton Ghost that he works in a reduced Windows 98 operating system. When format/restore fails it drops you into the Win98 system in DOS base that's why you get the X: invites on your screen.

HTH

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