Thanks! I just bought a Toshiba L305 with the DVRKD08L Drive and had the same problem of non-recognition. I followed your recipe, which was simple and clear, and it works just fine now. Thanks a lot, Tmyers! You saved me a lot of lost time, energy and possibly money!

You may have a bad HDD, or a corrupt MBR. First try a system restore/recovery. Do you have a Repair/Recovery Disk? Toshiba support: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=SB&os=&category=&moid=2226347&rpn=PSLB8U&modelFilter=L305-S5921&selCategory=2756709&selFamily=1073768663

Hi,
With the Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907 Laptop, you can put a 500GB hard drive and up to 2 TB hard drive. The only requirements are to make sure it has a SATA connector and is 2.5" Size. These are very common and easily found online. For example, here a 500GB one that is compatible that I found: Click Here.
Hope this helps. If it does, please accept and rate the solution! Contact me with any more questions you may have. Thanks for using FixYa!

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Probable inverter board failure; this supplies high voltage to the fluorescent back light(s).
You can see what they look like here:
eBay-Toshiba inverter boards
The first characters of your model number - L305, are the most important, the others detail items such as CPU, hard drive, etc.

You do not need the exact part number, your laptop came with a 160GB 2.5" SATA drive.
Any 2.5" SATA laptop drive will fit and work with your laptop. A 500GB drive can be bought for £30.
Take a look on Amazon.
If you want an exact replacement, take your old drive out and search on google for the model number it will have on it

no problem with the wiring. just pull it and will come off. not a big deal as toshiba says.

the dvd that came with you computer is a recovery disc ; to recover your computer as new as you bougth it ;so to do so ; restart your com ;change the boot options to boot from the dvd first and follow what the dvd says and excuse my english

This useful link will help you...

http://www.bixnet.com/toshiba2.html

Hi,
go to device manager in control panel,system.
select the cd/dvd drive,right click it, bottom offer,un-install.un-install it.
reboot.
should be good.

Regards
Richard.

Follow the link below for all the drivers.

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2241928&rpn=PSLB8U&modelFilter=L305-S5920&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663&selModel=2241928|PSLB8U

Thanks for the rating,
Mark