Comments on: Hard Drive Recovery: Toshiba Laptop Failed Bearings

By: Tom Grinley

Tom Grinley — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:42:03 +0000

Many, many years ago I told myself I would never buy another Toshiba. I didn’t heed my own advice and now I’m paying for it with my second HD failure in the past 5 months. NEVER AGAIN!

By: Crumbz

Crumbz — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:58:04 +0000

I have a Toshiba A665D-S6051, which is currently 5 months old. Iv hardly used it since purchasing it, however 2-3 months into having it, one day sent up the ‘blue screen’ and has done that many times after. It also keeps sending up a ‘ Hard Disk Failure’ message which keeps saying get it replaced or repaired.

The laptop has crashed twice officially and had to be formatted back into factory default causing me to lose documents and everything not once but twice. i am truly bummed out about this, as this is a new laptop which has hardly been used, it also makes the grinding/strange noises. A common message sent is:
Disk name reporting faillure: ‘ Toshiba MK5065GSX ATA Device’.
Iv considered purchasing a new internal hard drive.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks! Crumbz

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:38:44 +0000

Sharon,

It could be that the disc is looking for the 160? It could also be the computer is not seeing the hard drive. Did you check in the bios to see if the hard drive is recognized?

By: Sharon Baird

Sharon Baird — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:46:45 +0000

I have a Toshiba satellite A200 and for the second time the hard drive has died. The first time was under warranty but it has run out. I have had it in to a shop to have the data recovered. I have since purchased a 250 gig hard drive to replace the old 160 hard drive as I was told the one I got is compatable to the computer. when i start up the computer it tells me that the boot manager is missing. I have the original toshiba recovery disc and when I load the disc it comes up with error-F3E1000001 harddisk not found. I have no idea how to fix this problem any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:28:40 +0000

Chrictine,

I would suggest making a sector by sector to sector clone of the drive while you still can. You will NEED that “recovery” partition because it will contain an image of the machine when it left the factory. All the recovery cd is for is to allow access to that. It normally will have no windows files on it.

By: chrictine

chrictine — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:22:47 +0000

hey i have a tochiba satallite L500 and the hard drive is threatening to stop working. we took it into the shop and they said the hard drive needs replacing, warranty has just run out. is it possable to use a recovery cd and relode the standard hard drive ? what do you suggest? thanks

By: john

john — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:06:12 +0000

First see if the hard drive came unseated. Could be that simple.

By: Then Must

Then Must — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:36:32 +0000

My laptop toshiba satellite A10-S167 was error on HardDisk n i was remove it with new HD, but my toshiba won’t booting n I try to install with windows-7 but the problem is windows7 could not detect my HD, here still say “windows 7 could not be installed on this disk, access denide try to intall driver”
second, please tell my how to boot from USB device on satellite A10-S167.
Thank’s for your solve….

By: Jacqui Best

Jacqui Best — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:50:20 +0000

Zusuka,
There are a ton of computer part sales websites. You can use any USB to SATA or IDE cable or Chassi and yes it should work just fine\. Move all of the data you want off to it and you will be good to go.

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:01:12 +0000

zusuka, yes you can add the storage, but KNOW that you shouldn’t rely on only one form of backup! Backup your backup! Also try to not keep your external hard drive running all the time. Use it for backup, but not as storage.

By: zusuka

zusuka — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:33:51 +0000

I like it! I have a 120 gigs laptop that I got for study in college. I still have my desktop hard drive that is also 120 gigs. My cousin used the other parts to build a computer for his friend .Anyway; I am running out of storage on my 120 laptop hard drive and want to use the 120 desktop hard drives as an external instead of backing everything up onto DVDs or CDs. Is it possible? If so please add a website where I can purchase one of these cables. http://laptop-hard-drive-enclosure.com/

By: abudl

abudl — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:43:20 +0000

HDD not found
when ever this message you found during recovery or installation windows means you need sata drivers- it does not mean ur hard disk is gone- try to find sata driver for your system or if you have OS with sata drivers – it wll auto install windows – HDD NOT found mean you are not using orignal disk for your laptop-
try to find orignal recovery disk
will solve the matter-
or if you are trying from another OS disk then u need sata drivers for ur system
thanks

By: blogster

blogster — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:29:37 +0000

i need help my toshiba satellite is broken and every time i try recovering it says error pls help

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:58:36 +0000

I have a Toshiba Satellite. I am getting a massage: Windows could not start b/c the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system
I am trying to load the recovery CD but it doesn’t do a thing! anything I try itgoes always to the same message above.
Help!
Thanks.
Chris

By: blogtek

blogtek — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:49:19 +0000

Sounds like you know what to do to get a hard drive running? I have a questions. How would I get training to learn to repair and restore hard drives? I’ve worked as a deployment consultant and before that it was mainframes. i also worked as a domain admin. But I’m getting older now and looking for work I can do at home. It appears as though a clean room or clean cube can be set up right in a small space of a garage or something of the like.

I would appreicate any tips on this matter.

By: Happy Camper

Happy Camper — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:16:15 +0000

I managed to recover my daughters data from a MK3021GAS drive that had failed. It was making some very funny groaning noises, but I connected it to an adapter to my main desktop machine and mounted it upside down.

It must have taken the stress off the bearings as it recovered everything perectly.

Just thought I’d share that with you.

By: A Bashari

A Bashari — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:38:21 +0000

Hello,

I have just restored my Toshiba L300 to its factory state after it failed to boot several times (even is safe mode- I tried everything but it would freeze on boot and go no further). All seems to be fine except that it is now very slow, seems to be getting stuck constantly, i.e. will type and letters will not appear 2 to 3 seconds later. In addition, watching vidoes on cnn, you tube etc for eg which used to be smooth with 0 glitches is now impossible as video keeps getting stuck etc. I can verify that this is not an internet issue.

Any idea what the cause is and what I can do to fix it? I’ve had the laptop for about 5 months so was really not expecting problems so early on.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

By: smiler

smiler — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:52:31 +0000

I have a toshiba hard disk which i took out of a toshiba laptop and fixed into an external hard disk case. After my first attempt to recover my data from the disk, it can be recognized as a usb mass storage disk but windows says it cannot be accessed.Please help me.

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:04:50 +0000

Monique,

Do you have data on there you want to keep? If so do not run the restore. Feel free to call us at 727-251-2058 and we can help

By: Monique

Monique — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:32:21 +0000

Hey.

I am having a massive problem with my Toshiba L100. I can’t get it to turn on anymore, it will get to the windows screen and a box will pop up saying ‘the application failed to initialize (0xc0000005) Click OK to continue’ Then it is just a black screen. I have tried to boot in safe mode but it does the same thing. Now my goal is to restore it to factory settings, however, another problem arises, my CD/DVD drive doesn’t work so I cant use the Recovery CD. Hopefully someone can help before I go mental and throw it out of the window!

Thanks

By: Joe Whitehead

Joe Whitehead — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:09:43 +0000

If your laptop starts making a loud beeping sound than it is likely getting WAAAAAAAY too hot or there is a key held down on your keyboard. If it takes 5 minutes after being on all night, and it beeps even when you’re not at the laptop… then you certainly have a heat-related problem. This is most likely if the laptop is at least 6 months old. If it’s over 2 years old and you’ve never cleaned the vents, then I know it to be 99% likely. Good luck

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:58:03 +0000

I was really disappointed with my Toshiba Satellite. No doubt, it has a excellent AMD Turion processor, and even a very nice graphics card (not integrated); but, these high-grade components generate a lot of heat, but the laptop has a low-grade cooling system. . . I have no doubt that the drive failure is at least somewhat induced by the massive heat this thing generates. Additionally, and I noticed this on most low-grade and even high-grade laptops, the heat exhaust is on the side on the console, and the vents often only go up half the side of the laptop console. . . which means that if you put the laptop on any surface that is not flat and hard, there’s a good chance it will overheat, and you’ll lose your work. . . which means, in the end, the laptop is just a crappy desktop . . . .lol.

By: julio

julio — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:36:07 +0000

I have a toshiba satellite A135 and it has gone out of control. When logging on the password box automatically shoots to the right with an undermined key stroke, and if you happen to get pass that stage all other pages will drop straight to the bottom and its extremely hard to get back to the top. Plus in safe mode a very loud alarm sounds until the laptop is closed. p.s. Vista is installed?

By: Joseph Whitehead

Joseph Whitehead — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:55:24 +0000

Well, the drive might be more sensitive to the overheating, but I’m not so sure about that one… They all are very close in physical layout and tend to use the same type of ICs.

By: Joseph Whitehead

Joseph Whitehead — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:53:44 +0000

Most of the drive failures I’ve seen in laptops come down to two things when it’s not a software issue:
1) Dropping the drive.
2) Having a hot case.

The first one is easy to avoid for most people, but the second one is a killer… It’s not the drive, but the laptop that has a design issue. I won’t mention models/brands (namely because most do it), but the desktop replacements are notorious for this ‘feature’ called a ‘lap warmer’. heh