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    M405 - When booting from USB, can't see internal HDD

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by sparta.rising, Nov 5, 2009.

  1. sparta.rising

    sparta.rising Notebook Consultant

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    I have a Portege M405 tablet. The DVD drive isn't working and I'm trying to install the drive from a USB device. My external DVD drive didn't seem to work with the laptop, so I hooked up my external hard drive to install from that, but the Windows installer can't see the internal hard drive! Thinking it was a problem with the internal HDD or maybe just the Windows installer, I put UBCD on a flash drive and booted with that. None of the diagnostic programs would see the internal HDD.

    So, it seems that when booting from USB the laptop doesn't want to run the internal HDD. Any way to fix this?
     
    sparta.rising, Nov 5, 2009
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    jnjroach Notebook Evangelist

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    On the M400 you need the Toshiba Hardrive drivers, but them on another USB drive or on the SD card. The M400 and M405 uses a strange type of SATA Driver that is not native to Windows.
     
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    Edit:
    That worked perfectly! Thank you so much!
     
    sparta.rising, Nov 5, 2009
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