Hy everyone,
I own a TOSHIBA Satellite L10-119 Series Notebook, which I have purchased in 2005.
Processor Intel® Celeron® M of 1.50GHz, Original HDD Size of 40GB and a RAM expanded up to 512MB.
Model No. PSL 10E - 00L00GAR.
Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago (after serving me well all throughout these past years), its HDD has suddenly stopped up!
I was in the middle of an important job in a Project Site located in a very remote area of the World; the detected HDD problem was a mechanical crash: basically, even connected on "slave" mode onto another computer, the HDD wouldn't turn!
Through the very basic informatics support we had on site, I've managed to obtain in an urgency a brand new IDE 2 ½" Hard Disc Drive, but this time with a size of 160GB: I was told that the computer would have also supported a bigger HDD size without any problem.
It was promptly mounted on my Notebook and then, through my Toshiba Recovery CD, I have reformatted the virgin HDD to the "Factory image". The whole process went on smoothly following step by step all the instructions and in less than 20 minutes my HDD was "successfully reformatted"; I've restarted the Computer and everything is working fine, if not for a slight detail: although I have installed a 160GB HDD, when I read on the "Local Disk (C
Properties" it shows a TOTAL SIZE OF 127GB only! And there aren't any hidden partitions shown also into the "Disk management" Section of the Administrative Tools! What has happened to the remaining 30GB?
At this stage I do not have any idea of what has made changing the HDD Size…
Could anybody of you or someone from the Toshiba Technical Support Team be so kind to let me know if, perhaps, I didn't properly perform the Reformatting process? Or perhaps are there some other steps to perform which allow the HDD to be fully Reformatted and that I haven't done? Or… Just let me know please, why this has happened and if is there any remedy which I can access to fix this problem?!
Thanking in anticipation for the time you have spared me and if you can help me somehow,
Best Regards,
mino64 wrote:Hy everyone,
I own a TOSHIBA Satellite L10-119 Series Notebook, which I have purchased in 2005.
Processor Intel® Celeron® M of 1.50GHz, Original HDD Size of 40GB and a RAM expanded up to 512MB.
Model No. PSL 10E - 00L00GAR.
Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago (after serving me well all throughout these past years), its HDD has suddenly stopped up!
I was in the middle of an important job in a Project Site located in a very remote area of the World; the detected HDD problem was a mechanical crash: basically, even connected on "slave" mode onto another computer, the HDD wouldn't turn!
Through the very basic informatics support we had on site, I've managed to obtain in an urgency a brand new IDE 2 ½" Hard Disc Drive, but this time with a size of 160GB: I was told that the computer would have also supported a bigger HDD size without any problem.
It was promptly mounted on my Notebook and then, through my Toshiba Recovery CD, I have reformatted the virgin HDD to the "Factory image". The whole process went on smoothly following step by step all the instructions and in less than 20 minutes my HDD was "successfully reformatted"; I've restarted the Computer and everything is working fine, if not for a slight detail: although I have installed a 160GB HDD, when I read on the "Local Disk (C
At this stage I do not have any idea of what has made changing the HDD Size…
Could anybody of you or someone from the Toshiba Technical Support Team be so kind to let me know if, perhaps, I didn't properly perform the Reformatting process? Or perhaps are there some other steps to perform which allow the HDD to be fully Reformatted and that I haven't done? Or… Just let me know please, why this has happened and if is there any remedy which I can access to fix this problem?!
Thanking in anticipation for the time you have spared me and if you can help me somehow,
Best Regards,
From the behavior of the system, it appears that you were misinformed about the ability of your system to use a hard drive larger than 137 GB (the 48-bit LBA limitation).
BIOS overlay software exists to 'fool' the BIOS into recognizing the full capacity of the drive, but I am reluctant to recommend it because it is a 'kludge' and may lead total data loss at some point in the future.
I'd suggest that you buy and install a 120 GB internal drive, which is compatible. Use the 160 GB in an external enclosure.
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