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    Portege 2010 HDD woes

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by MevaD, Nov 10, 2008.

  1. MevaD

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    Hi all,

    Bought a Portege 2010 with no HDD. Added a known good working 40Gb HDD from my R100. The drive is recognised in the BIOS, but does not boot. (The HDD light does briefly flicker.)

    Got another 40Gb HDD, booted with a Win98 floppy. Created a 4GB FAT32 partition with FDISK. Exited FDISK, rebooted. Tried to format C: but got invalid drive. Went back into FDISK - no partitions defined! Put drive in R100. Formatted and made bootable. Back into 2010 - no partitions defined!!

    Replaced the IDE cable, same result.

    Have I got a duff motherboard/IDE controller? Any other thoughts, please?

    P.S. BIOS on 2010 is 1.50 which I believe is the latest.
     
    MevaD, Nov 10, 2008
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