Toshiba A10 Hard drive

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by Chayce, Jun 18, 2006.

  1. Chayce

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    when i tried to reinstall windows and error came up saying hard drive not detected can i please have help what i need to do to repair it please
    Thank you Chayce
     
    Chayce, Jun 18, 2006
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  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    does the bios see the hd?
     
    ddp, Jun 18, 2006
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  3. Chayce

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    yes it does
     
    Chayce, Jun 18, 2006
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    if the bios sees the harddrive then it needs an fdisk so the o/s can see it
    what windows were you trying to put on ?
     
    pcrepair, Jun 19, 2006
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  5. Chayce

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    no sorry i got it wrong it says no hard drive i was putting in window xp home edition
     
    Chayce, Jun 19, 2006
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  6. ddp

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    if not seen by the bios than hd is busted, ide cable popped out so reseat it or ide cable malfunctioned so replace it.
     
    ddp, Jun 19, 2006
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  7. Chayce

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    the bios is not reading the drive it picksup the cd drive would i have to replace the motherboard or is there some way of repairing it
     
    Chayce, Jun 19, 2006
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  8. ddp

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    buy a new hd. did that on a laptop i got from customer when 20gig hd died. replaced it with new 40gig hd.
     
    ddp, Jun 19, 2006
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  9. Chayce

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    i put in another hard drive and it comes up the same no drive please help
     
    Chayce, Jun 20, 2006
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    Check to make sure that the IDE channels are both enabled, and that the jumper on the new drive is set to master. Just a thought.

    ~Rich
     
    DoubleDwn, Jun 20, 2006
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    is the new hd a western digital?
     
    ddp, Jun 20, 2006
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  12. Chayce

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    yes it is a 40gig
     
    Chayce, Jun 20, 2006
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    if western digital drive & no drive present as slave than don't jumper the drive as master as still won't be seen. put jumper parallel to circuit board close to ide connector & circuit board.
     
    ddp, Jun 20, 2006
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