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08-30-2009, 03:34 PM
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Laptop hard drive
Hello Guys,
My cousin owns a Toshiba Satellite A 100 Laptop. Window xp is unable to boot. I did suspect bad hard drive sectors at first sight. Indeed it was.The HDD is Seagate ST9100824AS . Seagate tools detects 95 errors on the drive. But the funny thing is that when it repairs them, the same errors reapears and again each scan. Seems to be trapped in a cycle. Is the drive dead or what ? Thierry.
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08-30-2009, 04:51 PM
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Not really dead, just has become unusable as a boot drive without reloading the OS to an area that is not affected, if you can find it and access it.
With 95 errors and evidently some showing up recently enough to cause the boot issue you won't be able to trustit in the future. So yes, effectly dead. |
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08-31-2009, 05:20 AM
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Can anyone help me with Toshiba Satellite A100 (PSAA9C-JH200E) Hard drive installation Please ? I have been to Toshiba website and I found the Manual instructions without hard drive installation or replacement.
Any guide will be appreciated . Thanks a lot guys. Thierry. |
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09-01-2009, 11:18 AM
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Its normally under a cover on the bottom, with a hard drive symbol on it, or it might pop out the side, I even found one under a CD drive once!
Actually that was a tosh, you checked under the CD drive? |
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09-01-2009, 01:02 PM
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satellite series has the hard drive on the right-lower corner on the backside. remove the screw holding the cover, then pull the drive "horizontal-wise" so that the drive is unplug, finally, you can take the drive out of the "hole". ( bad design)
the "pretege" series is under the arm-rest.
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09-01-2009, 02:30 PM
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alfie2,
Thanks a million. You save me a day of work, I was intending to dismantle the all laptop working my way from top to bottom. I finally free up the drive as you mentioned. Really bad design. That's why I do love this forum it has earned me a lot of hands-on experience. I do owe pcmech some how and there is always someone on the corner really willing to help. Thanks a bunch for all the pcmech hero in the shadows. Thierry. |
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