Hi guys , my nephew asked me to take a look at his laptop , its a toshiba , with windows 7 when I start up there's an error message ENTER HDD / SSD password in a blue box If you try typing in anything get a message Setup notice Verify eror! ! press enter to continue, , if you type anything in get message Verify error System shutting down I tried to get in using the f2,f12, f8 keys but no joy keeps reverting to the error message He has no windows disc or backup , I have an old windows 7 boot disc but can't get past the error message Any input would be grateful guys thanks in advance ... Happy New year to everyone in afternoon Paulie ..........
find the cmos battery & disconnect from motherboard for 30 seconds with power adapter disconnected & main battery removed.
Cheers ddp for the quick reply, will have cracked at that asap , thanks again mate best wishes for the new year ..... Paulie57. ........
To update guys got past the HDD/SSD problem he eventually remembered the password ,, but once past it , just get a black screen ,can get in to the setup screen using the f12 key and can see the option to change startup option , but he no backup disc to boot from the cdrom option., any ideas guys would be great , thanks in advance guys. ...
https://forum.toshiba.eu/showthread...ore-my-Satellite-C660-to-the-factory-settings *1) Hold down the power button for ten seconds to switch off your machine *Please note: Holding down the power button on the machine forces it to switch off. Any unsaved data will be lost. *2) Press and hold the zero key and at the same time, tap the power button once to switch on your notebook *3) When the machine starts beeping, release the zero key *4) When prompted by the warning screen, select Yes to continue with the system recovery *5) Select Recovery of Factory Default Software and click Next *6) Select Recover to out-of-box state and Click Next again *7) Click Next to Start the recovery http://ccm.net/forum/affich-691588-plz-i-need-help-to-recover-my-toshiba-c660-c660d https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q...rtition+on+toshiba+satellite+C660D-19X+laptop
Will do ddp , thanks for your patience and tech info , will give the above a bash cheers Paulie ..........
Nice one lol , just got in to safe mode will try restore to see if I can get it back , read the links so have a couple of options , thanks a again for big effort , will post how it goes , fingers toes etc crossed lol ........
