Re: Satellite A40 - hard drive error - won't boot

My friend bought this laptop in April 2007 and was very happy with it until about a month ago when it stopped booting into windows xp.
On starting she now gets the message
"PXE-E61 media test failure - check cable"
"PXE-M0F exiting intel boot agent"
"insert system disk in drive"
"Press any key when ready"
and then the laptop won't boot into windows.
I thought that the hard drive may have come loose, so I took it out and refitted it, but to no avail.
I have also tried to reinstall with the recovery CD's but get the following error message
"status
GDISK (E) no such fixed disk 1"
this is followed by ***ERROR***
error number 11030
message invalid destination drive
X;
I ran a Toshiba (or it might have been Hitachi) disk checking utility which I burned to a cd and ran on boot up.
This said that there were problems on Toshiba MK4025GAS, which is the hard drive. the details match up with what it actually says on the drive.
The BIOS can see the drive to boot to as it is listed as the master, with the cd drive as the secondary.
Therefore, is it the case that the drive is broken. If so - can it be repaired or is there another solution.
I have tried googling the error message and there are conflicting messages regarding this issue, so your help would be much appreciated.
It seems crazy that the drive can break after only 18 months - was there a faulty batch?
If this is the case does Toshiba offer a replacement or is it going to cost a bundle?
Thank you
Nashy
Message was edited by: Nashy - sorry - it was bought in 2007 NOT 2006

As Im not mistaken the Sat A40 supports the IDE HDD controller and therefore you would need an IDE 2.5 HDD. But I would not recommend buying an HDD bigger than 120GB because there is a tiny risk that the BIOS would not recognize the HDD properly.
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