Toshiba Satellite M40 Laptop

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by New Geek, Jan 1, 2008.

  1. New Geek

    New Geek Private E-2

    I RECENTLY acquired a Toshiba Satellite M40 laptop which isn't working.When turned on it shows "Operating System not found." The Bios doesn't detect the hard drive.
    Using the original recovery disk I can get it to boot
    to the recovery utility, but whatever I try it returns "No disk drives were detected".
    When I leave the recovery it goes into Dos mode, defaulting to x:\> (I assume this is Toshiba cd drive) I can then go to c:\>.. Doing a directory search it shows
    "Volume in drive C is MS-RAMDRIVE
    Directory of C:\
    COMMAND.COM AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS RECOVERY.BAT
    [DOS] [TOOLS] [BMP] SPAN.BMP
    Does anyone have any idea where I start????
     
    New Geek, Jan 1, 2008
    #1
  2. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Perhaps the Bios is correct and the hard drive has failed.

    Replacement hard drives for Toshiba Laptops are notoriously expensive. You can sometime pick up a bargain on Ebay if you wait long enough.
     
    studiot, Jan 1, 2008
    #2

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