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04-11-2003, 02:31 PM
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Toshiba Satellite Notebook won't boot... HDC Error
I have an old Toshiba Satelite laptop from about 98 and it broke down about a year ago so I got a desktop. Anyway, my wife could sure use a laptop for her class to record grades and scores.
I was thinking I could revive this old thing. The unit displays "HDC error" on startup. It doesn't boot at all. I put in a win2K disk to try to run setup and it says "can't run setup, there is no Hard Drive located on this computer". So I assume I have a bad hard drive or hd controller. The computer also makes a klunking/knocking sound that sounds like the HD is bad. How can I find out what's wrong exactly? Also how much would a laptop HD cost? I'll only need something small to run word and excel. Maybe a couple Gigs is all I need. Any way I can revive this thing? Everything else works perfectly, it has a good screen, disk drives, battery, etc... Last edited by Jeff Lam; 04-11-2003 at 02:33 PM. |
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04-11-2003, 02:42 PM
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I did a search on newegg and turned up zilch, but found www.harddrives.com , they sell Notebook HD's...Im sure it can be revived...If all it is, is the HD. I would check Toshiba's website and finf out some more specs so you dont end up with the wrong HD or anything.
I hope it helps avx
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04-11-2003, 04:00 PM
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Won't any 2.5" notebook drive be OK?
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04-11-2003, 04:05 PM
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The thing you have to be careful of here is, that the Controller on the M/B is still functioning. (Usually part of the southbridge chip).
If you can try and borrow a HDD, to make sure that all is OK M/B side, if it is go ahead and replace the drive. If not, then I would send the sys to sys heaven.
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04-22-2003, 04:05 PM
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I picked up a 1.4 Gig drive off ebay and the machine is fine now. It has been revived! Turns out my HD was bad.
Now I just need a 64M stick of RAM for this machine and maybe a larger HD. Anyone have an extra laptop DIMM and or HD they want to sell? The Kingston PN is KTT650/64 but I will accept any reliable brand. And any HD at least 2-3Gigs should do fine for my needs. BTW, it's a Toshiba Satellite 325CDS. Last edited by Jeff Lam; 04-22-2003 at 04:14 PM. |
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