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Can not install Windows 2000 OS on Toshiba Portege 7010CT

post #1 of 8
6/25/09 at 4:09am
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Dear there,

My coworker brings me a Toshiba Portege 7010CT laptop. He had it with him for many years. Now it does not appear to work in fact, it does appear on a screen at the beginning to booting up says " Insert System Disk in Drive. Press any Key When Ready.... ".

I visualise at the beginning that would be a symptom of bad HD or OS corrupted. Then I tried to rebuild 2000 OS, unfortunately I could not boot up from USB portable CDROM drive, so from floppy drive instead using DOS. In DOS, i can see C drive. I can do fdisk so forth. However can not install OS cause DOS does not recognise USB drive. Then I decided to pulloff a HD and pluginto a Desktop which allows me to copy across to second partition of laptop HD.

I then implemented installation. After installation finished when tried to boot from c: partition then it results the same as " Insert System Disk in Drive. Press any Key When Ready.... "

Could any one correct me what i miss please?
Thank you and regards,
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post #2 of 8
6/25/09 at 10:25am
Can I ask why you are trying to Install Windows 2000 and not a more up to date version of windows?
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post #3 of 8
6/25/09 at 11:11am
I would put in another know working drive. It could be that the HDD controller or connection is failing.

cheers ...
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post #4 of 8
6/26/09 at 1:20am
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Thank you for replay.
If a HDD controller failure. Can it be possible to fix? In fact, I will try to pull off parts and resit it if I could.

Thank you any how.
Regards,
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post #5 of 8
6/26/09 at 7:44am
It will depend if the controller is being soldered or just like a snap-on type circuit board/cable.

cheers ...
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post #6 of 8
6/29/09 at 7:07am
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Hi qhn,
Thank you for pointing me out. Now I got a Portege 7010CT working. HDD controller caused whole problem. It works straightaway after replacing.

I really appriciate that, thanks again.
Regards,
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post #7 of 8
6/29/09 at 9:07am
Glad to hear it worked out for you. You did not take any pics to share by any chances

cheers ...
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post #8 of 8
6/29/09 at 10:41pm
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I forgot to mention about the OS. I used windows XP sp2 instead of 2000. Thank you
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