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    Satellite 3040cdt hard drive upgrade

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by rifraf, Jun 6, 2005.

  1. rifraf

    rifraf Newbie

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    Hi all,
    Ok here is my issue. I have an old Toshiba Satellite that works great but has the stock 4gb drive. I have a used 10gb IBM Travelstar that I want to replace the stock one with. I install and nothin happens. The system goes through the cmos, then all I get is a blinking cursor. I put in my window xp disk and it sees the drive with no problem and is able to go through the initial setup. But as soon as I reboot, it hangs again I assume when the Toshiba searches out the hard drive.

    I've look through the CMOS but nothing there that seems to help me find the hard drive.

    Am I doing something wrong? I searched the Toshiba support website and you all probably know by now that they tell you to go a certified toshiba repairman to install a disk.

    Can someone help?

    Thanks a bunch.

     
    rifraf, Jun 6, 2005
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  2. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your notebook probably has a CMOS HDD limit of 8GB. You may want to try partitioning the size of the HDD to below 8GB and see if it works.

    You can also try using a Disk Overlay program to foo the system into recognizing the drive. OnTrack should have something that might work.

    If the overlay doesn't work, you may want to try going to the IBM site and see if you can download a utility that will set your drive size in its firmware. I've seen an IBM tool that will make change to the IBM drives (desktop drives) so that it reports to the system that it's under a certain limit (some systems had trouble seeing drives ovr 120GB).

    If this doesn't work, it's possible your notebook just can't go above 8GB because of the BIOS. If that's the case, you need an 8GB HDD or smaller.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Jun 9, 2005
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