Reformatting the Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504

upon turning on the power hit f8 and then select safe mode with networking. once windows is up go to start>all programs>accessories>sytem tools and select system restore on system restore select a date before you installed IE8.Let it process and you should be good to go.

Hi, you will have to change the boot sequenc.when you turn on watch the screen and you will see very quickly to press F2 or a different key to go into the bios. I think it is on the first screen to change the sequence - Boot from cdrom then hard drive.
Then insert your dvd and install, if you need more help, please ask.

Alternate sites for drivers try these
www.driverguide.com
www.driverskit.com/

It sounds like the hard drive is dying. I had a computer do the same thing and it turned out to be the hard drive. You should still be able to access the bios though. Try hittind either delete or F1 as soon as your toshiba screen appears.

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Unfortunately , you are going to have to call Toshiba.
from the sound of it your recovery disks are failing and they have already formatted your harddrve

Hi there
Take a close look inside the card slot (you may need a torch/flashlight) look to see if any of the brass pins are bent or out of position, if they are use a very small flat head screwdriver to gently push them back into place.
If all looks fine with the slot and there are no foreign objects inside your card maybe faulty.
Also i suggest the you check the drivers are installed, check this in device manager.

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Go BIOS and check if the FN key be disabled.

a yellow mark shows the drivers are not installed,

First these laptops are what is called "Legacy Free", meaning there is no BIOS, at all, ever, for all time, not gonna be there.

Second, the Floppy option is referring to any supported USB Floppy drive. If you have one great, if not this will be more difficult.

NOTE**** - If at any point you do not know what I'm referring to, please do not attempt this, you will likely render your HDD useless.


If you have the Floppy on USB, then you will need the XP setup on Floppy Disk and there are alot of disks, and from my own experience so far, No, a USB flash drive will not work, I even tried an emulator which formatted it as a floppy disk.

If you do not have a floppy, then you will need to remove the harddrive and connect it via an external USB drive cage to another pc, create two partitions, one for your OEM OS disc, the other for the installation. Obviously your OEM OS Disc is not all that large, only partition what it needs, and make sure you make it a bootable partition. For XP you will also need the SATA drivers for the hard drive as XP does not have them included in the setup disc. If you do not have these, you will need to find them or just stop here, because you can go no further.

This is one of the biggest drawbacks of a "Legacy Free" system, you cannot change the SATA operation in BIOS like most other pc's. The system configuration is done through a windows utility from Toshiba.