r1 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 i am working on a laptop for my friend. he has a Toshiba 1115-s103. anyways his hard drive stopped booting up. so i thought that it was his 1. hard drive 2. motherboard or 3. his BIOS. 1st i swapped out my laptop hard drive and put it in his laptop ,and it works fine. so i don't think its his motherboard or BIOS ,but i went ahead and flashed his BIOS still doesn't boot up with his hard drive. 2nd at this point I'm thinking its got to be his hard drive ,but i put his in my laptop and it boots fine. i don't understand why his hard drive won't boot up in his laptop? any help would be great!!! thanks -r1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 you have a non working laptop so you test it (doesn't work) pull harddrive, test it in known working laptop (working) pull Known working hardrive, test it in non working laptop (works) test bad HDD and bad laptop (still not working) correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1 Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 yes that is right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 same model laptops? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1 Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 no, the non-working one is a Toshiba satellite 1115-s103 the working one is a dell Inspiron 6000 -r1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sablefoxx Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 When does the computer freeze up? Does it POST? (Sounds like it does from your description so i am assuming it does) Does Windows freeze at loadup? Can you access safe mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1 Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 well, after the splash screen it says "Intel UNDI , pxe-2.0 (Build 082) Copyright © 1997-2000 Intel Corporation for Realtek RTL8139 (A/B/C)/RTL8130 PCI Fast Ethernet controller v2.12 (010425) PXE-E61 : media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F : Exiting PXE ROM" and just repeats it. i know it sounds like its tryin to boot up from the network but i went into the bios and the hard drive is number 1 while the network boot is last. also i went into the bios and it doesn't even see the hard drive. i just don't understand why my hard drive works great in his laptop while his does not? -r1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakey Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 what OS? if its XP i would first suggest you repair it with the windows cd. ive had it where harddrive just don't boot any more on xp and it you reinstall/repair windows it works again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1 Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 i was thinkin the same thing. and i can boot up a live cd so i did a fresh install of Ubuntu and still the same thing. -r1 do you think i should try to maybe reinstall ubuntu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakey Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 if you can boot from a live cd then yes reinstall ubuntu but if it dont work i reckon you might half to shoot the laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1 Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 well i just reinstalled Ubuntu and it still don't work it's still saying the error thing (as posted above). but the bad part is i don't have a gun to shoot it lol i think it has sumthing to do with the hard drive but i don't know whats so different between mine and his hard drives. -r1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I know it's it SOOOOOO unlikely but check the jumpers on the HDD check the website if needed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakey Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 if it worked then didnt it would not be the jumpers try another port for the hdd im not big on laptops but i think your friend might have a bridge or something in his motherboard or his hdd shit itself. can you access your hdd when you boot of the boot cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 well, after the splash screen it says "Intel UNDI , pxe-2.0 (Build 082) Copyright © 1997-2000 Intel Corporation for Realtek RTL8139 (A/B/C)/RTL8130 PCI Fast Ethernet controller v2.12 (010425) PXE-E61 : media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F : Exiting PXE ROM" and just repeats it. i know it sounds like its tryin to boot up from the network but i went into the bios and the hard drive is number 1 while the network boot is last. also i went into the bios and it doesn't even see the hard drive. i just don't understand why my hard drive works great in his laptop while his does not? -r1 Go into the bios and if possible disable boot from lan. If it does not save the settings, see if the cmos battery is dead. All else fails, set the bios to "default" setitngs and go from there, but I think it is the bios trying to boot from lan and bypassing the HDD. If the HDD is not found, maybe it isnt seated correctly or making a bad connection internally, but I find that hard to beleive if your HDD worked. You can also try removing the CMOS battery and hoping a fill reset of the BIOS works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1 Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 i tried to disable the lan ,and it did save it. so the battery is not dead. but it still gave me the same error msg. the HDD is not found in the bios but is found when i do a live cd (ubuntu) . so i would think it's seated right. ( i can even read and write to it.) as far as pulling out the cmos battery for a full restore. wouldn't flashing the bios with a update do the same thing?(set everything back to default along with upgrading itself)( i would say that his HDD is just a piece of crap but it works in my laptop just fine. -r1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 i tried to disable the lan ,and it did save it. so the battery is not dead. but it still gave me the same error msg. the HDD is not found in the bios but is found when i do a live cd (ubuntu) . so i would think it's seated right. ( i can even read and write to it.) as far as pulling out the cmos battery for a full restore. wouldn't flashing the bios with a update do the same thing?(set everything back to default along with upgrading itself)( i would say that his HDD is just a piece of crap but it works in my laptop just fine. -r1 Removing the CMOS battery should reset the bios and all settings saved in the bios. Flashing it is only when you want to change, update or add some code or functions of the BIOS, like being able to boot from CD, etc, on older machines that do not list it as an option. Instead of setting it to auto, have you tried manually adding the HDD in the bios? What happens if you try to boot a windows recovery cd? Can it see the HDD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakey Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 maybe the boot sector of the hdd is corrupted has it got 2 spaces for hdd. if so buy a new hdd and put the other one as a second hdd not to boot from it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Has this laptop got some kinda TPM in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1 Posted December 14, 2007 Author Share Posted December 14, 2007 digip, i went into the BIOS and there is no way to manually set up the hdd. or at least i didn't see it. i put a windows recovery cd in there and it does see his hard drive. snakey, he doesn't have two spaces. but if the boot sector was bad would it still boot up fine in my laptop? vako, it's about a 4 or 5 year old laptop so i don't think so. aren't those fairly new? i asked him 2day to just get a new hard drive, i hope that works. we will see. -r1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 One thing, did you try your HDD in his laptop? I know you said his HDD worked in your laptop, but does yours work in his? (/digip makes mental note to re read thread) Sounds like something in his lappy is foobared. I would load a LiveCD and copy all the important stuff off the hard drive, then try and reformat the damn thing and start over. Might be quicker to do this and if you have to buy a new HDD and copy all the important stuff over once you get it working. If no HDD works in the lappy, then its some other component on the laptop and obviously not his HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakey Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 i know with windows xp your os configures to your motherboard so you cant boot from that hdd on another motherboard. im not sure about ubuntu but i dont think you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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