Recently I replaced the hard drive on my Toshiba Tecra M9 Laptop ModelPTM90A-01V00K. I am trying to reinstall windows XP Home Edition. The System refuses to recognise the hard drive. Can you please help an old man in dire trouble. Cheers
Firefly
Look on the back edge of your old HDD where all the gold pins are and on one side there is a group of 4 pins in two rows of two... and see if there is a tiny jumper installed across two of them (white or black about 1/8" tall and 1/16th wide).
Now look on the new HDD and see if there is one there. The NEW HDD must be set up exactly like the OLD one or it won't be detected by BIOS or Windows.
I am beginning to think your LT has the CD as MASTER and the HDD as SLAVE, which may require adding or removing a jumper. Some new ones come with, some without ;-) I didn't think of this earlier
Check that. Email me the result
Normally, I can take a box stock PC and any old HDD and install Windows using the CDROMs
The CD Boots, asks me if this entire HD should be OS, I say yes and it Formats and Partitions it (Takes hours with a 20Gb HD) Then it installs WIN. I assumed the jumpers or lack thereof could be pointing WIN to the CDROM as 1st Device, which of course it cannot write to.
I have several LT. Some HDD have jumpers, some dont and they won't work in the other LT unless I add or take away that jumper, soooooo I figured it was a possibility and def. worth mentioning
Does your HDD plug into a small carrier, and then into the LT, or just plug into the LT?
I'm thinking maybe you are not getting both rows of pins or fully seated, which would be a good reason for the install to fail.
Which state are you in?
Well, I guess that means I can't hop in the Jeep and pop over ;-)
Have you tried running FIXBoot or FIXMbr from the Windows Install CD Recovery Console?
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Let us know what you find out.
Sry we aren't 'physical' neighbors, I'd a fixed it for you long time ago.
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You have to partition and format the drive before the windows system will be able to notice it and run any programs. Therefore there is no Master Boot Record to load your software..Put the cd back in and let it run a few minutes until it ask you if you want to install or repair in recovery console.Choose repair, then at the DOS prompt type FIXMBR..reboot and you should be goodl If that doesn't work let me know and we'll try something else...
Take the advice from cleverer2 ..the HDD has to be partitioned and formatted before the XP disc will be able to load..check the jumpers on the HDD and make sure you are booting from the Disc by changing the order in BIOS..Good Luck
Take a look at your old one..make sure all settings are the same on each on the hard drive..put the old one back in and see if it works..if it does not then we'll know its not your hard drive but a controller or cable...if it does run then we can at least narrow it down to your hard drive and keep experimenting until it gets done..at this point I am starting to think it is not your new hard drive but something else..try it, let us know.
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You have to create a Partition first and then format with ntfs. if you download a BART PE disk or other you be able to do that.
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Thank you for your response. I did what you recommended but sadly once again the system advised me that "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on my computer" Although there is certainly a HDD installed. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks to everyone who responded. I live in remote part of the country and have to atempt to fix problems by trial and error as I have no access to support in any form. I am a novice user and complicated fixes just confuse me. I have tried the suggested fixes without success. The problem for me is that when I attempt to load anything to the new HDD the system refuses to co-operate. With Windows it keeps telling me that it cannot locate a hard disk drive. I am booting from the CD Rom. It does not recognise BartPE either. Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks. There is a carrier that holds the HDD. I have checked this it is OK. I am in the South Island of New Zealand. In the Malborough Sounds, Mahau Sound to be exact.
Thanks for your interest. I am still unable to load Wiondows XP and have resolved to have a professional fix the problem. However your input told me what I was unable to do so I can pass this information on.
Firefly
What error does the system give?
Are you boting from the XP Home CDROM?
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