Toshiba A20 ? Hard disk Size?

Hi was just wondering if any can confirm 160 gig will with this model

I already update bios and ran restore disk but it does.nt seem to boot ? i was wound if maybe issue with the release of xp on recover disk maybe it not sp2? but ghost see the whole one 150 gig when it copying to hard disk

 

If you get the model number you can look it up on Toshiba's website.

 

Since this is a new hard drive (I assume) - the issue is most likely that you need to set that partition as the 'active' partition.

The easiest way (for the non-technical) to do that is to take out that new hard drive, replace your old hard drive back, put the new hard drive in a 2.5" external hard drive enclosure, then use windows to erase all partitions, remake the partition, set the partition as 'active' (i.e. the active partition), then format then hard drive and do the hard drive swap again in combination with the system restore.

Hope this helps.

- Jordan

P.S. An active partition is the partition (or section) of the hard drive that is set to be 'bootable' - i.e. so windows can boot off it.

 

Ya i figure it out just need fixmbr i guess because recovery disk are so old only sp1 but i wound have figure if ghost seen whole size disk that it shound been able to restore mbr


this was ghost that toshiba used on recovery disks

 

it okay i got work it still a slow laptop but it works all need to use fixmbr

odd since recovery disk shound have done the when it restore it