Satellite Pro L300 - new partition after Exchange of HARD drive sizes

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• Can Satellite Pro L300-22N - I use a SATA hard drive?

  Hi all!

  My hard drive is broken. Now, I want to put a new one in it. I have a SATA hard drive, but I can put it in this laptop? Because the old one was an ATA (I guess)

  Thank you very much!

  Hello

  I can confirm the info given by Liam.
  The L300 supports the SATA interface and you use the SATA 2.5 HARD disk

• Satellite Pro L300 - using partition magic

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300 laptop and I would like to make an additional partition next to the C: drive already existing and the hidden partition. I created the recovery discs and I want to use the magic of partition for the partitioning process (no new installation of windows xp). Can someone tell me if using partition magic will have adverse effect on the eventual recovery from disks created?

  Thanks in advance

  Usually you can do with Windows option in disk management, but can you please tell me something first?

  You are using Vista or Windows XP Home edition? I ask this question because if you use Vista preinstalled HARD drive must have already two partitions. Please check in Windows Explorer.

  Hidden partition is described as an EISA (WinRE) partition?

• Satellite Pro L300 - which improved after the BIOS update

  Hello users,.

  I just finished an update of the BIOS on Satellite Pro L300 using Updater Insyde Bios. I tried the Toshiba site to see what's new or what has improved since the update my bios 1.7version v2.2. But there is no search results. I also went to the site Web Insyde, but neither have they put up what has changed or improved?

  Is there a documentation or information which could help me to know how my laptop has improved or better after the update of the BIOS and what has changed since my update of the BIOS?

  Thank you

  Hello

  I assume you mean a changelog of the BIOS. Well, normally this document is placed on the Toshiba page where you can download the BIOS update.

  If you can't find such a t changelog, there is no available changelog. All that s!

  In addition the BIOS update should be performed only if it of really necessary. This means that if everything works fine, I don't see a reason to update because this update is a bit risky.

• Satellite Pro P100 - multiple display after Exchange screen problem

  My laptop: Toshiba Satellite Pro PSPA6A-028017 with Nvidia GeForce Go 7900GS

  OK, here's the story. I turned on my laptop about a week ago and the screen is blank. I plugged in a monitor external via AVI and tried Fn + F5, but nothing. When the computer reboots, the external screen worked. When I tried to turn on/off displays the external monitor is turned off and I found myself with an empty screen - I was obviously spent on screen of the laptop but working blind, I couldn't work out how to get the external monitor to start again. FN + F5 did nothing.

  At that point, I called Toshiba for the support of the warranty (on-site, next business day). They had a technician with new monitor/display on site the next day (after a few calls me to follow up). It has replaced the screen but struggled to lift the screen up and running. He finally managed to logon Windows safe mode and get running but only display on 800 x 600. It has updated the Bios and drivers. He could then up to the 1024 x 768 resolution. Highest and the screen would be left empty.

  At that time we plugged in an external monitor via VGA. It worked, but the technician couldn't get the each display to run on each resolution. He left him speechless and he acknowledged that things still are not good. Later, after that the technician had left, I managed to get views working so each to their own resolution. However, I could not always connect the external monitor via DVI (VGA only). I was at least temporarily to work!

  The next morning that I turned the laptop on to find that I was back was started. No display on the laptop and on the external monitor only low resolution. It seems that the external monitor is simply cloning which should show the computer screen.

  Under the display properties > settings the display shows:
  1. (multiple screens) on NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
  2 Dell G2410 (Analog) on NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

  I know that when everything is working properly, he said not many monitors. The only screen I see is the Dell external monitor. And when I identify the Dell screen is no 1, even if it's not listed number 2.

  I don't know anything about the cards video etc, but a theory I have is that adapter is defective and is only show the analog signal. That is why I think that the screen of the laptop and external monitor (connected via DVI) works not done the external monitor connected via VGA (but it seems to be imitating the screen of the computer, allowing only the laptop screens range of resolution). Is that possible?

  Someone at - it ideas? The problem is likely to be the video card? I'm puzzled. I'll have to get the technician on the spot back (which will probably still 2 days and several calls, follow-up) and I don't want to lose any time. I have a business to run and I have now lost a weeks work already. If I can offer some strong theories before the technician comes on the spot, sometimes we can get parts ordered in advance.

  My warranty expires in a few weeks, so obviously I want this fixed correctly in the shortest time. I don't want to wait 2 days for a technician to come and have to wait another day or two for parts.

  Help, please!

  Thank you
  Ghjghj

  It is not easy to offer the correct answer and explanation why this happens here on the forum. In laptop cases should be tested with diagnostic tools to ensure that what is the problem.
  OK, exchange of display was a step in the right direction but, of course, this question is more complicated and doesn t happen due to the defective screen only.

  I agree with Akuma and also thinking that there must be a hardware problem on the motherboard. Before the expiration of the warranty, you should contact the service again and let check portable equipment.
  The fact is, if there is that no book of hardware malfunction should work fine preinstalled with delivered recovery image (Toshiba CD/DVD recovery facilities).

  Please, don't wait too long and contact ASAP. They check your laptop. the warranty is still valid and your laptop needs to be repaired.

  Good luck!

• Satellite Pro L300 - white screen after login

  Hi, got a laptop off a friend to watch as not start correctly. Vista Edition running Home Premium, it will start up the screen of the user ok but when a user is selected the screen goes white with just the mouse pointer showing (which moves ok on the touchpad). I can press Ctrl Alt Delete and get the blue menu screen - if I try the Task Manager with it it goes back to the white screen.

  I tried a repair of end upward to F8 but said no problems found. I can also start ok in Mode safe without getting a white screen. I tried a high diagnostic of MSConfig startup but still the same. I also disabled all services but still a Virgin.

  I have a secondary partition on the disk with the recovery of HARD drive there, but do not want to reformat. I tried to restore to several different, but restore points remains empty at the normal start screen.
  Someone at - it find it.
  Mark

  Hello

  Its hardware problem or software.
  Start the laptop in safe mode means that some essential software process would be disabled and the system would use only a few basics of essential equipment.

  So even if the laptop runs correctly in safe mode, it could be a hardware problem.

  That's why I think only with the help of HARD drive recovery would be the best way to know what's wrong here...

• Satellite M30-104 - Impossible to re - install OS after Exchange of HARD drive

  Hello

  In a first time, sorry but I speak very well English...

  I ve a M30-104 and the HARD drive broke down.
  I ve bought a new HDD (2.5 in 120 GB wd IDE) and installed it.
  When I tried to recover with the recovered CD the pc turns off...

  So I tried with an another Win XP CD and when I hit [ok] to proceed with the installation, the pc turned off too...

  Thank you for the help
  Philippe

  Hello

  Have you checked if the new HARD drive is recognized properly by the BIOS?

  I m not 100% sure, but maybe the size of 120 GB might be too large and so the BIOS would not recognize as it should.

• Satellite Pro A120-154 - how to remove the HARD drive password?

  Hello

  I have the following problem: I set a password for the HARD drive in my old Satellite Pro A120-154 years ago, and now I want to remove or change the passowrd since I'll give you this laptop for my nephew. Instead I don't know the password, I am not able to change or remove, not with the password of Toshiba uitility program and not with the BIOS set up.

  Further I can't find any info on this in the user manual. How can I do this?

  Thanks Tino

  Hello

  I found several useful documents from Toshiba on HARD drive password. Please take some time and pick up some info on HARD drive password and how it works.

  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ9202JG0000R01.htm
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB6B01MC000CR01.htm
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ9401AR0000R01.htm

• Portege R100 - how to install after Exchange of HARD drive?

  Hello world
  I'm new to this forum and I want to know exactly where I'm wrong. I have this portege r100 laptop and the hard drive gave a few days ago. Because I am a novice when it comes to computers, I left the laptop with an engineer, that I found on Kijiji.
  Unfortunately, the engineer could not load any operating system on it. I go through this forum and loads found useful answers, but alas, still the same problem.
  Could someone guide me in the right direction. I would be really grateful that I have exams coming next week and really need the laptop.

  I don't have any CD-ROM compatiable only an external floppy drive.
  I tried to install using the windows startup disk (x 6 downloaded from the microsoft Web site), but after the 6 disc it asks me 3 options.

  1. press ENTER to install
  2. recovery console option of
  Output 3.F3

  When I press on enter is not superimposed my cd rom which I figured out is not compatiable. If I leave the connected cd rom it says unmountable boot disk. It gives me a bsod. Is there another way, I could install the operating system using only the FDD.
  I'd appreciate it really all the help of the experienced members of this forum.
  Thank you.

  First of all, you can not use any external CD/DVD drive... you must use a compatible and recommended by Toshiba.

  Secondly, I you could try to connect the HARD drive to another computer using the USB caddy.
  Then copy the i386 to the HARD disk folder.
  Then, you can run the winnt.exe file to start the Setup program.

  Once configuration is complete plug the HDD to the Portege and tries to start
  It is only theory, but maybe it won't work

• Satellite Pro 2100 jumps down and now demand HARD drive password

  Hello world

  I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 2100. I have some problems when you access the Internet; When I start the Internet, there is no problem, but when MSN messenger start the laptop goes down and I have to turn off manually the laptop. This would be a kind of firewall?

  Last Sunday, this problem occurred when using Skype; But now the computer has completely collapsed. The system first asked "inserting a disc system. I didn't know what they meant, so I turned off the computer a few times manually to see if it would disappear.

  When I turn on the laptop, Windows will not start upward and the system asks a black screen "the password HARD drive". Does anyone know what this means and where I can find it? And means that my laptop is dead, or am I able to fix? Can someone help me?

  Thanks in advance!

  Marjolein

  Post edited by: leiniexxx

  Hello

  I know, it's the HARD drive password cannot be deleted.
  If the HARD drive password has been activated and you don t know the password for the HARD drive, then you will not be able to use the HARD drive more. :(

• Satellite P300D - problem with reboot after update the HARD drive

  Hello

  I have laptop Satellite P300D - 12 c and recently, I put a new hard drive, the Seagate momentus 7200 RPM 2.5 "500 GB. It works well, but I have a strange problem; normally when I reboot the laptop when it will close something sounds, in the figurative sense I could say "something moves" for a bit in the DVD - ROM drive and shuts down and then restarts.

  Now, when the reboot happens to the part of the dvd - rom drive, I described above it stucks there... "something is happening" on the dvd - rom drive as trying to permanently access a dvd or something and he does the same thing until I force it to shut down by pressing the appropriate button. It happens once in two attempts to restart.

  Does anyone have a solution or a tip or something? If you do not understand something to tell me,

  Thank you very much

  Hello!

  I agree with Akuma. Maybe the drive is loose and so you should try re-allocation of places there.
  Maybe it works

  And updated the BIOS, you can find the Toshiba site:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > download drivers

  Good luck and give us feedback! :)

• Satellite Pro S300L: howto get rid of the HARD drive password

  Hi all

  yesterday I thought it was a good idea to put the HARD drive on this new computer laptop password.
  But now I want to get rid of him again. I remember, I can't find how to turn it off again.
  The ACPI Bios version is 3.00
  I have "updated" with a program from this site to version 1.10.
  No change.

  Someone knows how to remove this HDD user password or disable the system that asks?

  Thank you
  Thomas

  Hello

  I know, you can't remove password disk hard if you forgot. Please, read this article:

  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ9202JG0000R01.htm#

• T500 receives do not update via update system after Exchange of hard drive

  Hello forum,.

  I replaced the broken Samsung 1 TB of HDD in my T500 with a 1 TB WD drive and restored the laptop of my latest backup (restore and recovery). After that everything seemed OK and promising until I realized that the Windows Update client and system update were not able to connect to their corresponding update servers or not able to actually look for updates.

  It took me a while to find an answer and a solution for the problem of Windows Update:

  The Samsung drive had the size of logical sector of 512 bytes, and the size of 512-byte physical sector. However, WD has now logical alternative but 4 k disk size physical sector of 512 bytes. Given that customer Windows Update (Windows 7 x 64 BTW) uses a database of local physics based on the logical sector size could play a role.

  The solution I found was to replace the SATA driver installed by the last RAID Intel rapid storage driver. This corrected some WRT question for sector sizes THAT NTFS is reported to the operating system. And this fixed the problem of Windows Update. Since then, the machine can connect and get Windows updates from Microsoft Windows Update servers again.

  Unfortunately, the fast RAID storage driver installation has not fixed the problem with the system update. Whenever I run the system update it invites me to machine type model, OS and language, and after that, I get the error message

  "The server system is currently unavailable. Please try again later. »

  When I use a second Thinkpad T61 or an old T40 at the same time and run the update system on these machines they are still able to connect and retrieve a list of available updates.

  I know that I could solve the problem by returning to a 1 TB drive with the physical sector size of 512 bytes, or probably a complete reinstallation of Windows 7 hard disk WD.

  So the obvious question is: is there anything else I could do?

  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling system update without success.

  Best regards

  Ralf

  Hi, as I wrote in my first post I already tried your solution without success. System update was not even able to connect to the servers it is (or just showed this error for some reason any). However, I looked at the latest version of the update system released in October (v5.00.0019) and I have replaced v4.03.0012 with that one. And Yes - this time back to normal operation. Thus, TVSU v5 fixed somehow the problem even a never version v4 TVSU wasn't able to fix. The cause of this disorder is still unknown. Best regards, Ralf

• NB100 - white screen after Exchange of HARD drive

  I just changed the HD in my NB100 when I handed all together my screen does not work!

  I did this procedure several times successfully, but every other time I've never felt the need to disconnect the 2 wires that connect my screen n now this its just not cumin on ive checked every thing n all is fine except for this infuriating problem.

  any ideas?

  Hello

  As Akuma wrote: an external monitor works ok or is it too dark?

• Satellite Pro A100-001 - maximum capacity of a hard drive supported?

  I tried looking for the Board of Directors and the Toshiba site, but have not yet found the answer. Please bear with me if the question has been answered elsewhere.

  I bought an old A100 on eBay - it seems to work fine, but it has a 40 GB hard drive (not standard).

  Enter the serial number on the Toshiba support site reveals the machine to be an A100-001.

  I can implement it using a SATA drive.

  Anyone know if I could go to a 320 GB drive, or if there is a limit to the capacity of hard disk supported in this model?

  Hello

  If that s SATA HARD drive controller then you should be able to use the 320 GB HARD drive and more
  As much as I know the SATA controller has no limitations, and therefore, it should be possible to use these larger sizes of hard drives.

  Hope I could help you.