Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:52:16 GMT
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lib.HD problem - FDISK=no fixed disks present
Below...
>From: "Fubar Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Lib.HD problem - FDISK=no fixed disks present
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:38:00 -0700
>
>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.
Remind me what the model is? IIRC it's newer than my CT50 which doesn't have
the splash screen...but the bios hangs early on while it's looking for
system things - one of which is the disk.
>
>>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?)
erm, no <blush>...it got reassembled too many times with no case on it to
support the disc and a pin got slightly out of line so it missed the hole,
and at the next insertion the pin went back into the housing instead.
>
>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.
>
If it's not a 50 or 70 I couldn't say - but I'd take a guess at there being
two screws on a cover at one end of the machine...00 or 000 crosshead
screwdriver will be enough to remove it.
Neil
>TIA
>
>Sincerely... Steve
>
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