I get 10-fc12-0017 error when I run recovery disc on my Toshiba laptop
I get 10-fc12-0017 error message when I try to run the recovery disks on my Toshiba Satellite laptop. I get to the end of the 2nd disc and then the recovery process stops and this error message appears on the screen.
I got similar error message when I was troubleshooting a Toshiba laptop a few days ago. When I was running recovery discs I got an error message in the same format XX-fcXX-XXXX.
Cleaning recovery discs and even trying another set of discs didn’t help. The recovery process was interrupted with the same error message on the screen.
I tried running the recovery discs again and this time I was listening for the hard drive. I noticed that right before the recovery process stops with the error message, the hard drive was making repetitive clicking noises for a while, maybe for a minute or two. I think this error message 10-fc12-0017 could indicate a problem with the hard drive.
I’ll replace the hard drive and try reimage it again. Hopefully it will fix the problem.
Do you get the same error message on your Toshiba laptop?
December 13th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
what are my options? please list them all
October 27th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I have the exact same problem as everyone. I am also getting ERROR: 10-FC12-045D from my U305-S7467. I will buy a hard drive tomorrow and will update if it works.
Thanks Laptop Freak for the first post. Hopefully it will work on mine also.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Jude,
I think a new hard drive will fix the problem. Let me know.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I just had the error 10-FC12-0017 on my Toshiba A135-S4527 after trying the second Recovery Disc. Many of you say it just suddenly happen, I had my laptop for 3 years now and I accidental drop it from my desk to my carpet floor. I’m pretty sure is the Hard Drive, I’ll try to buy a new one and hopefully it will keep working unlike some that stop after 2 weeks or so. Would get back to you guys after having my new hard-rive for 2 months.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:43 am
What a piece of (feel free to fill in this area)! Friend asked me to take a look at his Toshiba Satellite A135-S704. Same problem as everyone else… 2nd disk runs and what do you know… error code with absolutely no explaination at all. Thanks Toshiba, thanks Microsoft. You both have wonderful products and your commitment to quality is unmatched. You should be proud!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Does any one have any solutions for this?
September 13th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Did anyone determine the real fix for this problem? One person said that it was a memory problem, most people think it’s the hard drive. I really need to know. Thanks.
August 14th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I have a Toshiba Satelite & was tryin to restore back to ” Out of Box” condition… at teh end of the recovery..I get ERROR: 10-FA11-0017. Any Idea what this is…no noises. Is is the HD? Its was running fine…( other than my teen downloading games & bogging it down)
Any advise woudl be apperciated!!!
August 4th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Ok so I had the same issue as everyone else until I realized that the customers pc I was working on had 2 Hard Drives in it. After discovering this out I replaced the other drive with a new drive and it worked perfectly.
July 5th, 2009 at 9:43 am
I am trying to troubleshoot a friend’s Toshiba L350D with the same issue. He has replaced the hard drive three times. The last time it only worked for two weeks before the error came up again. It looks like something on the motherboard is causing the harddrive issue.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
EI GUYS IM A TOSHIBA TECH AGENT..
FOR THIS KIND OF PROBLEM OR ERROR MESSAGE JUST REPLACE THE HDD.
IF YOU ARE IN WARRANTY JUST CALL TOSHIBA OR BRING COMPUTER TO A SERVICE CENTER….
June 9th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I have a Toshiba 215 and received an error 10-FC12-045D when trying to use the second recovery disc. Toshiba sent another set of recovery disks but I still get the error. Anyone have a solution for this?
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 pm
I have a Toshiba L300D Series. Laptop crashes, Run recovery cd’s like everyone else. Get the famous Error 10-FC12-045D message after the second CD is running..tried this several times with same result.. Went out and bought a western digial
hard drive… Ran the recovery CD’s again and it worked perfectly……for 2 weeks.! CRASHED AGAIN…!!!! Now I get the same error message when I run the CD’s again….Something else is causing the drives to crash..Took the hard drive out and installed it on another laptop…No problems on the other laptop….Toshiba..I will never buy another…!!!
May 29th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
i have a satellite a205 i have error message 10-fc12045d this is a hard drive error from all my research if you get this go to a athorised repair shop have them put a new hard drive in it if it is under warranty theres no worries but if not it easy for you to put it in… this seems to be a really bad problem with the toshiba 205 series it has happened to me 3 time in the last year… well good luck every one thats my advice hope it helps….
May 20th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I installed the recovery cd’s on the 2nd disc i received an error message 10-fc12-045D I pressed enter and now it’s stating the the bootmgr is not working I have only had this laptop (Toshiba) 3 months please help.
May 15th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Problem solved after all.By myself.One of the memories (2*1G Hy…ix) generated the error.All the best!
May 9th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Yeah, you guys the same thing on a T.Portege M800, after tones of blue screens and trying to reinstall from 2 recovery DVD’s “originally” made by a B.By store.They asked for some device serial numbers only.30 CAD charged….I heard that previously Toshiba included these cd’s, dvd’s in the original package.
So 10-FC12-0570 error is the final stop before shutting down….I’ll go to a Toshiba Service.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I am getting the same error when restoring from DVD “ERROR : 10-FC12-0017″
This seems too common to be random hard disk drive failures, is there something else that causes this in configuration, or on the hard disk that could be fixed without replacing the HD?
April 5th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I bought a Toshiba E105-S1402 laptop, and when I try reinstalling Windows Vista, I keep getting Error
10-FC12-045d.. the laptop is only 1 month old, and I have 2 a year standard limited manufacture warranty that comes with the laptop. I’m guessing its the harddrive because when I try formatting it. I keep getting a error.
Should I replace the harddrive, or should I take it to a Tosiba repair center?
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I have similar problem during the restore from DVD on Toshiba satelite A123-S4407 but the error message is 10-FA11-0017. The bad part it is getting close to the finish and crashes at 99% of the restore screen. Could this be that the HDD is going bad or something else.
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Hey guys. I have a Toshiba Satalite Laptop. It has Windows Vista *if that helps any
*. Here’s my problem and how I followed up to it but STILL having problems. I was coming back from school one day, and I turned on my laptop and it was blue with a bunch of numbers and stuff and said it was deleting physical data or something. So I quickly followed up with the recovery process and wiped out my whole hard drive and put it back to the out of factory settings. So now it’s all good from here. I’m happy to get it over with, but it’s not over. On the second disc, I get this “ERROR : 10-FC12-0570″, and that’s exactly how it was. Now here I am, posting on this site. I HOPE to get some feed bac. Thanks people!!!
February 9th, 2009 at 3:56 am
Hi, I have the same problem error:10-fc10-045d
and my laptop is only 6m old, so wath… the HDD is f**
This is happen when I turn of DEP on Vista… several hours later I have to start recover… and firsteval everythig were good, but after that…show up some mistake and i have to star recovery again and there is the error
September 30th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
bel,
If your laptop is only 6 months old, it’s still under warranty. Do not buy a new hard drive. Send your laptop to the authorized repair center.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
i also was having hte same error message 10-fc12-0017 and i went searching for a hard drive for my Toshiba Saltellite a21-s7416. I found one at newegg.com. My laptop is only 6 months old and it would not let me run the recovery cd. Hope this helps
July 16th, 2008 at 9:31 am
hay there, I work on Toshiba technical support.
theres not much information on this error but we have already reported some issues. It is indeed a problem on hard drive although we are not sure if its a configuration or a manufacture failure.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
laptopguy,
I think you are right. Here’s what I found about low level formating on this site:
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
no.
low level formatting is not possible with the current technology hard drives. there is drive geometry and bad sector information stored on the disk and low level formatting will destroy this valuable information.
you’ll basically turn your expensive hard drive into a really cool paperweight.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:50 am
weclock,
I’m not sure about that but if you have no data to lose, you can try.
You can use Active@ Kill Disk – Hard Drive Eraser to format the hard drive.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Is it possible a low level format may fix it?
From what I understand the drive was functioning perfectly, until linux was installed on the machine.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Here’s an update regarding the error message I mentioned in the main post.
I was getting this error 10-fc10-045D while running recovery discs on a Toshiba Satellite A205-S7468.
Today I replaced the hard drive with a new one and after that I was able to finis up the recovery process. The error message didn’t show up and I was able to finish up installation.
It looks like in mine case this error message was related to a failing (or failed) hard drive.