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Toshiba Satellite Pro A200

  • 15-06-2009 09:58AM
    #1
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭


    Right so my mates given me his laptop because its blue screening and restarting on boot up, just after the windows loading bar. It does this in normal mode and safe mode.

    I stuck in a windows cd to repair it, and it says there's no hard drive to repair. So i ran SeaTools and it found and ran a test on the drive. It says it found 78 errors but won't touch them because its not a Seagate hard drive.

    I've looked around and apparently Toshiba don't have a hard drive diagnostic tool. Does anyone know of a third party one i could use? Or one that works with Toshiba hard drives?

    Or anyone have any advice on a similar problem?

    Thanks

    GD


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  • #2
    Paddyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Paddyo


    Hi

    You might need to download some SATA drivers and put them onto a floopy disk or usb stick.

    When you boot from the Windows CD, you will need to press F6 when it asks if you require to load third party drivers. After a while it will then ask you to put the disk in the drive.

    Hope this is some help

    Paddyo


  • #3
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Cheers Paddyo, i didn't realise that it XP didn't have SATA drivers. Problem is, the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive and i don't know if its going to pick up the drivers from a USB stick. Ill try it though.

    I found some HD Diagnostic software that found the bad sectors and remapped them, but its not done any good.


  • #4
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Found a great article where i guy easily explains a piece of software that will let you copy your XP CD to your hard drive, put the SATA drivers into your XP installation and make it an ISO so you can burn it to CD.

    Lets you add SATA drivers to the XP CD installation you have, so you don't need to use a floppy, or anything like that. Handy stuff.

    See here http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Windows-XP-On-SATA-Without-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml


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