Hello from New Zealand, Have to organise price and info in the morning. Do you have any ideas how to reboot a Toshiba satellite P20 It says boot from original start disc, but we do not won?t to lose all the data. Tried to boot in safe mode also the last good configuration, but it keeps going round in circles. Have used compressed air to blow out the cooling fans, also taken battery out for 1 hrs then rebooted but no go! Is it possible to replace the hard drive with a new one, then fix the existing HDD into an external case to then extract data! Or can we extract data through a USP Port or a plug in External HDD We have sent computers to our IT specialist but they always end up losing data. Any help would be appreciated, Regards, Phil.

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go into the device manager ... delete the PCI stuff and reboot.

http:www.toshiba.com

Have a look into the device manager, right click my computer, select manage, then on the left side of the management window click on device manager, plug in the sd, do you see any ? or ! or yellow marks or unknown devices that a driver would be missing from or malfunctioning?

If you did not change the charger, then the battery is dead. Please replace...

Hi garodi, do you plan do re-install XP on your machine? If you do & you still have the cds that came with the computer, you could use that to re-image your machine like the first time that you got it. It should be around 2-3 discs. Just insert the disc 1 into dvd-drive > restart the machine > press F12 when you see the Toshiba logo > choose cd/dvd from the boot options then it'll boot from the cd, you should see a recovery wizard, just choose every first option and that should be it, it should ask you to insert the second & third disc if it needs it. That recovery process takes around 60-90mins. If you don't have the cds, you can just clean install your way using the retail version of the cd, check this complete guide here.

Hope this helps.

Hi timlondonuk,

I don't know if you've ever replaced the motherboard in a laptop, but it can be a serious chore - even damaging to the LCD connector and other devices if you're not careful. Oftentimes the cost of a replacement board is 50-75% of the cost of a new laptop, so you might consider that venue.

If you provide a model number we can help you find prices for the board.

Ben