Portege R600 Built-in HDD Error

My Portege R600 has been working fine until today when it came up with the message "Built-in HDD error" when I switched it on. It then lists the following:
Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.24
PXE-E61: Media test failure,check cable
PXE-MOF:Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Insert system disk in drive.
Press any key when ready...
I am travelling in South America and do not have access to the system disks.
Can anyone help with this problem ?

you can read about this issue:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/ann.jspa?annID=8
It looks like your hdd isn't recognized by bios. The possible reasons:
1 Hdd is dead (should be replaced)
2 the controller on the motherboard is dead (the whole mobo should be replaced)
3. In bios, lan boot set is the 1st boot device(Go to the Bios F2 on startup and check in Boot priority option)

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Appendix: #1
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This report created by Active SMART
http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/
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S.M.A.R.T. status
Date: 2007/01/18 20:05:32
Model Name: HTS541080G9SA00
Serial number: MPBDL0XKKE3RBG
Capacity: 80.0 GB
Firmware: MB4OC60R
Drive interface: IDE
Current temperature: 35 C (95 F)
Attribute Name Threshold Value Worst Raw value
1 (01) Raw Read Error Rate 62 100 100 0
2 (02) Throughput Performance 40 100 100 0
3 (03) Spin Up Time 33 253 253 55834574849
4 (04) Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 363
5 (05) Reallocated Sectors Count 5 100 100 0
7 (07) Seek Error Rate 67 100 100 0
8 (08) Seek Time Performance 40 100 100 0
9 (09) Power-On Hours 0 100 100 194
10 (0A) Spin Retry Count 60 100 100 0
12 (0C) Device Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 256
191 (BF) G-sense Error Rate 0 100 100 0
192 (C0) Power-off Retract Count 0 100 100 5177348
193 (C1) Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 100 100 4300
194 (C2) Temperature 0 157 157 231929348131
196 (C4) Reallocation Event Count 0 100 100 0
197 (C5) Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0
198 (C6) Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0
199 (C7) UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 200 253 0

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Maybe dust is blocking the cooling ventilator and so your notebook shuts down immediately
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> I know that repair costs for these laptops are very exp.
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Message was edited by: adminlt

Hi
> here is a lot of suggestions in the forums that R600 does support SATA SSDs
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>They have concluded that my laptop is not compatible with the software.
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"You should be able to remove the password by first entering the current password, then just hitting <enter> for both of the "new password" entries.
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Is there any other way to set the cpu fan speed directly?
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> {quote:title=PauPau wrote:}{quote}
> I think such people should read more about notebook and operating system functions and should visit some more pages in order to be up to date?
>
> Did you visit the FAQ AND HOW TO DOCUMENTS are here in the forum and on the Toshiba European page?
> http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=76
>
> How about this How To?
> http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/ann.jspa?annID=41
This points to:
[http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD84026Q0000R01.htm]
which mentions that:
"If the sound of the CPU fan seems too loud, a setting that optimizes battery life will also cause the CPU fan to turn on less frequently."
However, my problem was quite the opposite: optimizing battery life causes the fan to stay off most of the times but to make the noise of a Ferrari engine at max speed when it activates. Optimizing performance, instead, means the fan is almost always on but barely noticeable, and never makes the disturbing Ferrari-like noise.
Maybe it's just me, but that kind of noise prevents me from using the laptop and would have cause me to return it had I not found a solution. I simply think that it's such a big potential problem that a clear solution should have been explained in huge letters, all the more so because the solution is very banal. It might be just my opinion, but judging by reviews and comments on forums, I'd say it isn't.
> This should be helpful? otherwise I don??t know what can be more helpful?

Differences between User and built-in HDD password

I wolud like to set a HDD password on my Satellite.
But when I get inside BIOS to set HDD password, I see two HDD passwords,
one says USER HDD Pasword and the other says Built-in HDD Password.
Can you tel me the difference between them and/or what is each one.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Edward

Cezzy, welcome to the forum,
I am sorry, but regardless of the circumstances this subject is not allowed to be discussed here as stated in the forum rules
No posts shall include instructions or directions intended to subvert security measures, including passwords, locking mechanisms, fingerprint scans, etc, nor shall any posts provide descriptions to the location of, nor direct links to content related to these topics.
Thread locked.
Thanks for understanding
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