Changing hard laptop drive

If you have access to another PC, you can put the drive in there and "format" it. That will wipe everything from it, so you can load from the recovery CDs. Likely no need to buy new drive.

l think your hard drive has diference capacity or the comuter can read it

Most laptop computers have a place for only one hard drive. If you have the capability of installing two, then you can do it.
I would clone the old drive to the new one--you will need an external USB adapter to do this. Then you'll have more room. You also can offload a lot of your stuff to CD or DVD or an external drive to free up space.

1. Try updating the BIOS (if available) or
2. Install a PCI to SATA card and connect HDD through it.

why not either rename this drive at the correct size or format and partion etc,
If the drive shows 2000GB then why not put some stuff on it say 300GB and if its a 200GB it will give you a FULL message once it reaches 200GB

Well this is not how I like to answer questions on this forum, but here is a place to start looking for your drive. I hope this helps, there are some listed.
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=+Maxtor+3200&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Since the laptop is no longer even listed on the Toshiba site, you probably need a 2.5" IDE hard drive. You should be able to take it in to any reputable computer/electronics shop and they can tell you positively if it is an IDE device or not (I'd put money that it is). You should be able to use anything up to about 200GB. Anything bigger than that is dicey based on the age of the laptop (the built-in controller may not support drives larger than 200GB). And your recovery disk should not have a problem with using the larger drive although you may need to partition it yourself before running the restore disk since some of them hard-coded the partition information (which would give you a 30GB partition and the rest unused space which you could then use for a second partition with a separate drive letter than the rest of the drive)..

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Is that external hdd???

hi, im sure i can help, what software did you to put the password on, like was it just normal windows xp or was it a unique software that came with the external drive.
Let me know
Happy New Year
John