One universal true about computers is this: the hard drive will fail. It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. In an ideal world, every computer user would make regular, full backups of their system. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case, and far too often computer users find themselves with a crashed [...]
My laptop hard disk crashed along with optical drive. I have got the new parts in place now. I am connecting my old hard disk in an USB enclosure to the laptop. I cannot see the drive in My computer though it shows up in disk management as healthy. It is FAT 32. Please help [...]
The harddrive makes a weird noise and suddenly the screen goes blank loose all my work. I did my backup recovery disks and bought a new harddrive; I tried booting from the disk but no-go, the screen comes and says no operating system found. I had to put back in my old harddrive. I’m so [...]
I dropped my laptop from a TV tray (about 2ft) onto a hardwood floor and now it won’t reboot. It just turns on then the screen says “PXE-E61: Media Test Failure Check Cable.” It’s still under accident protection at best buy and they said it was either the motherboard or HDD that was shot and [...]
I have a major problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite P15-S479 laptop. I just replaced the hard drive and when I tried to turn my computer on I get this error: Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation For Reatek RTL8139(x)/8130/810x PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check [...]
My computer was really sluggish. I thought it was time for the good old wipe. I loaded up my XP CD and each time it went into Windows Setup it gave me a BOSD 0×0000007B. My HD works. So I booted into Knoppix (CD) and wiped my HD clean. Tried to go into XP, but [...]
I have a toshiba m35-s456 which i bought 9/04. Was working fine till one day “windows cannot start because file missing or corrupt.” figured hard drive failing, took it out, set it up as usb drive to transfer what data i could before it died (which is readable but slowly)… bought replacement hard drive and [...]
I have a Toshiba Tecra A3 cel-M 360 laptop and it was all working perfectly fine until recently. I use Microsoft Office 2003 and lately it has stopped working. T tried uninstalling it and re-installing office but it just wont work. If i click “Microsoft Word” the start up screen appears and it just freezes [...]
Hi, I bought a HDD from eBay and it came in original wrapping etc… It is a Fujitsu MHT2040AS and it has an IBM p/n 71p7503. I am running XP Home and my laptop is a Toshiba Sattelite 1400-503. I have the HDD in a USB case and my computer finds the HDD and has [...]
I have a Toshiba Satellite 5205-S703 and had it for 3yrs, warranty expired. I’m having a lot of problems recently. The latest one is I can’t seem to boot to Windows. I get the Toshiba splash screen and the display console shows ‘HD1 password=’ I don’t know the password. I think it is a hardware [...]