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    Satellite M30 IDE #0 Fault. Wierd!

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by stimps90, Jul 9, 2009.

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    Got my cousins old laptop to fix. Had noisy hdd with corrupt data. Removed and replaced with new 40 gig drive. Upon booting comes up with "0201 Failure IDE#0" and two options, "boot" (can boot from cd here) or "setup"

    In setup it does not give u the option to update the bios the hdd size or model information.

    Upon booting it with recovery cd, or windows xp cd, windows recognized the hdd and starts the installation procedure. Upon rebooting to finish installation, comes with old fault agian "0201 Failure IDE#0"

    booted with Gnome partitioner and it shows the correct partition and its active. Still wont boot from it tho!

    Any ideas anyone?

    One more option im checking out next is to update the bios, but not confident that will fix it, after reading a few more sites on the net about it.
    Anyone have any clue why the pc still doenst really accept the new hdd that I installed??

    cheers and thanks for consideration anyway if you are as stumped as me! :cool:
     
    stimps90, Jul 9, 2009
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    Turns out there only seems to be available on the net a bios update utility that runs inside windows. Nothing else. I cant install windows on it, so i cant update the bios anyway :(

    Anyone? :confused:
     
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