Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:31:08 GMT
From: "Fubar Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lib.HD problem - FDISK=no fixed disks present
Hello Galliform Sapients, Chickens, and anyone else who is reading
>It looks awfully as if the bios is seeing *nothing* where a disk
>ought to be...I know this is a long shot, but if you wake up the
>bios (lots of escs as the machine is booting usually does the
>trick) does it actually show anything in hard drive section?
TVM Neil - I'll check ASAP - later today.
I have noticed however that when it boots, the "Toshiba - in touch with
tomorrow" splash screen displays for several seconds (ie much longer than it
used to prior to this problem) before it asks for the (bios?) password. The
HDC error message appears after the password is accepted (regardless of the
the floppy drive being in place or not). Don't know if there any clues in
that.
>One possibility: I've had a hard drive fail because one of the
>pins got pushed back into the connector and so was only making
>intermittent contact. It's worth a try!
I've never been inside the machine... but I guess it's possible it was
assembled incorrectly at the factory (was that the case with yours, Neil?)
Can anyone point me at any information which will explain what is involved
in physically getting at the hard drive? I'll have to go shopping for
implements as I think my toolkit here (a swiss army penknife and a
mini-maglite) may prove somewhat inedequate.
TIA
Sincerely... Steve
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