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    Toshiba Satellite problems, Please help if you can

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by L84skewl, Jun 17, 2005.

  1. L84skewl

    L84skewl Newbie

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    Hi everyone.
    I am working on a friend of mine's Toshiba laptop, I know it's a satellite, not sure what model, but I know it's a P4 about 2.6-2.8ghz.

    Well anyways... He got some nasty virus'/spyware, so I started reimaging it with the toshiba disk he gave me, that he got with the computer.

    It continued to format the drive, but when it's reinstalling, it stops at a certain percentage with an error (Abort: Application Error 437).

    So, I figured that was a lost cause, so I was planning on installing win98se, then installing Win XP.

    When I go to install win98, it's finding all these errors on the harddrive, and when it scans the file system (i believe), it's taking forever, and gets about 50% then says "there are too many files on the harddrive, please delete some"... but in Dos if I type C:/Dir ... it shows 0 files.

    When Windows was working his HD showed 50gb... now it's saying it's 25gb in dos. (possibly whatever dos on there only reads up to 25gb, or could the reimaging possibly have created some kind of partition I don't know about?)

    To me it sounds like the harddrive is fried, but I have no experience with working on notebooks, just desktops.

    So if you guys could give me some help, I'd appreciate it very much.
    -Paul-

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    L84skewl, Jun 17, 2005
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  2. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    What I'd suggest,

    Since there isn't going to be any workable data on the drive, I'd boot off a floppy/blank CD, fdisk the hard drive (remove all partitions) create a basic partition, format it, and then go from there.

    If the formatting of that partition fails, then it sounds like perhaps it's a failing hard drive.

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    Arla, Jun 17, 2005
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