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SOURCE: Toshiba A65-S1065 hdd compatibility

The hard drive should work fine thats a standard IDE drive.

For the overheating problem you probably just need to clean the fans with a can of compressed air. That series gets clogged pretty easily. Just blow from the bottom of the laptop where you see the fan towards the outlet in the rear.

You can boot from a USB floppy drive to do a bios upgrade - you can get USB floppies for $20 or so.

Or i have loaded a bios from a bootable CD (you can make one from Roxio or Sonic record now if you make a bootable floppy first - get one Here:

Ricky Ostrom

• 274 Answers
• Posted on Nov 19, 2008

SOURCE: thinkpad 390x 2626, won't boot from cd drive

Try pressing F12 at startup, you should get a boot option.

SOURCE: Computer does not recognize the hard drive. I've installed a new one thinking that the old one didn't work

your mainboard is broke down. it doesnt see HDD.

SOURCE: problems with the hard drive

Replacement hard drives are pretty cheap ($50 to 100) at places like newegg.com I could give more detailed information if you posted the model of the system in question, as you need to ID if the system has an EIDE or SATA drive

Fred McCoy

• 380 Answers
• Posted on Nov 05, 2009

SOURCE: Dell inspiron 1721 hard drive not recognized for Vista reinstall

ok, theres a small issue with the raid controller. You have to install a 3rd party raid driver (its on the dell cd) to continue, OR, you can set that BIOS's hard drive controls to ATA or LEGACY (legacy would likely work best, but youd have no 'raid' functions, but who sets up raid drives on a notebook?). Your last option is use the dell discs to restore, and inssert the windws disc when prompted

Testimonial: "Thank you so much! It didn't have a option for Legacy, but only RAID and ATA. But it's working!! You are super awesome!! Thank you!!!"