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replacing hard drive in laptop

post #1 of 3
1/15/05 at 1:50pm
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I got a small problem i hope someone can help me with, I have this toshiba laptop i am setting up for my older brother, i took the hard drive out of it and replaced it with a bigger one, (10 gig), well, this laptop does not have a cd rom, so what i did was buy a port replicator that is attached through the laptop via pcmcia card in the laptop, then use a external usb cd rom, well, i thought i was set, when i went to put in the start up disk, of course it didn't fine not only the pcmcia card, it didn't find the slot as well, so what i did was take out the hard drive and put it in my other laptop and installed win98se, then put it back into the toshiba, now i get a disk i/o error.
How do I fisx this, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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post #2 of 3
1/15/05 at 7:18pm
A little info on your computer like "what model is it".
It would appear that you will have to get into your BIOS and change the boot sequence to start at your CD-ROM before your HD. Once that is changed, restart your laptop with the system disk in your CD-ROM drive
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post #3 of 3
1/15/05 at 11:16pm
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I have to get the startup disk to recognize that there is a port replicator first in order for it to load the default drivers for the cd-rom. Asfar as the Bios is concerned, the only two options I have for a boot sequence is 1. FDD then HDD, 2. HDD then FDD. The model is a Sattelite 105cs. What I am going to do tonite is pull it back out and put it in my dell, format it again, then install win95 and see if works with 95 instead of 98. I doubt it.
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