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Postby Mike Bannick » May 22, 2002 @ 4:01am

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Postby benkenobi0 » May 22, 2002 @ 5:39am

I'm guessing you already tried asking for support at the developer's website? If not that's all the advice I have, i have no experience in this field of expertise :D
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Postby Mike Bannick » May 22, 2002 @ 5:58am

lol toshibas support never even answerd my e-mail. :P I dont think I can send it back even if i had a warrenty left because I opend it up to see if something was physically damaged. Anyone know of any good tools to scan a hd for physical damage? other than scan disk which says everything is fine. Btw I checked in my bios settings and it says I dont even have a hd :/.
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Postby Solarix » May 22, 2002 @ 8:07am

well you could always preform a Low-Level Format on the drive and then manually reinstall your OS. Although, I wouldn't recommend this unless you are pretty familiar with this. I myself have never done this to a laptop, and unless you are installing XP on this system, you would have to have all the drivers for each device in your laptop.<br><br>Sometimes just using a manufacturer's recovery CD just doesn't work all the time. In that case.... the above mentioned is usually your only option. BTW just FYI I have been repairing PC's for the past 3 yrs and am not just talkin' out my ass.
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Postby Mike Bannick » May 22, 2002 @ 9:06am

pretty sure i tried a low level format all ready. But it never hurts to try again considering its a $1200 paper weight right now. run those steps by me(low lev format, been a long time since i did one of those :P) to make sure I did it right
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Postby Mike Bannick » May 23, 2002 @ 9:12am

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Postby BurningSheep » May 23, 2002 @ 9:16am

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Postby Mike Bannick » May 23, 2002 @ 9:20am

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Postby BurningSheep » May 23, 2002 @ 9:29am

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Postby Mike Bannick » May 23, 2002 @ 9:34am

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Postby Robby » May 23, 2002 @ 1:56pm

i've had this prob before, and several ones similar to it when i used to piss about on 486s and the like.
firstly, boot it with a boot cd or boot disk so you can get some kind of command prompt. now look at what kind of error message you are getting, its it says you have an unrecognisable media type or sth like, try a normal format c:
if this fails, and it probably will, go into fdisk delete all the partitions, restart and try to add a primary partition. this may or may not work.
next up, with a win 98,2k, or probably XP (never used XP) cd pop it in, and get as far into the install as poss, you might be able to get to the bit where you reformat your drive in 2k at least.

if none of this works, here one i tried once:

get to your hd, and set the jumpers to cable select.
boot up, get to a command prmpt somehow and see what it thinks of the HD, it should be now be completely scrambled. you may now be able to fdisk it if you booted with a windows cd, but siwtch it back onto slave or master before you try anything.

if no kind of scrambling it and then getting it going will work, your screwed, your drive could just be fried, i 've had a few ones like that.

and i know all this info is a bit vague, but just try to really make a mess of it, then windows should be able to fix it for you.

you could try partition magic as well, never tried it on an empty machine but i think it might work.
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Postby Mike Bannick » May 23, 2002 @ 4:38pm

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Postby ingallsj » May 23, 2002 @ 11:24pm

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