Satellite 5100-503: Changing HDD and booting questions

My harddisk in my Satellite 5100 broke down and I want to change it.
According to various messages in the forum, it is not possible to boot the 5100 from a CD when there is a (new) harddisk in the machine. And the only way to change the boot sequence is via Windows - which does not work anymore - there is no other way to change BIOS parameters than inside Windows.
I have looked in the manual - I cannot find any mentioning of pressing F12 or C or any other combination to change boot sequence (I have of course tried nevertheless to no avail). The only thing one I have found possible is to press ESC + F1 to _restore_ default BIOS settings. And powering up pressing the key left of the space bar gives me the possibility of flashing a new BIOS.
Is it really so? Since that would mean I'm stuck. And in that case I'll simply save the money for the new harddisk and throw out my laptop... (and probably by another brand next time - but I sincerely hope it isn't so...)
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Thomas

Oookay. So after pressing F12 at boot time I have to use the _cursor_ keys to move the thin line that looked like an error symbol beneath the graphical symbols, I should have guessed that...
Sigh. I liked the old text approach better.
Anyway. I'm now booting from the CD and I'm installing windows on my new HDD, happy happy.

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Could anybody help me with this?
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> but continues to load windows
How the notebook can load windows if the new HDD does not contains an OS?!
Or did you install the Win OS on other way?
For me it looks like the notebook does not boot from the recovery CD.
The drive cannot read the recovery CD due to the drive malfunction or CD fault.
Did you check if its possible to boot from other bootable CDs?
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That was what I thought first and connected an external Diplay (15" TFT). But nothing was shown.
At the Toshiba support hotline a learned about the F8 button at startup; but still no reaction.
According to Toshiba it seems the either the mainboard or the CPU is defect. Approx costs 500 to 700 without
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Hi Sam,
Thanks for you fast answer.
1)What's a "real" CD Rom ? In shops they sell 700Mb, 800MB and 870Mb CDs. The 800Mb only shows 703Mb on the screen of the burning programs. So, I wish I could overwrite until 800 or 870 on those last two categories that seem specific for this purpose.
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Hi Santos
Thanks for posting this your personal opinion but I have to say that you are simply not right
The Toshiba ASP (authorized service partner) will help you always if you have some hardware problems.
But they will not provide you any disassemble manuals because such manual are not for public usage!
And this is not only Toshiba rules but you will find such rule in every company!
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Furthermore your Satellite 5100 is an older notebook and the nVidia GeForce4 440Go graphic card is not weakness.
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> {quote:title=Terentino wrote:}{quote}
> All WXP drivers you can find on Toshiba download page but under option ??Product type?? choose ARCHIVE.
Terentino
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Message was edited by: MammothZ

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Objective: I am trying to upgrade the internal 500GB to a Seagate 1TB external Harddrive and making it the primary internal. Then I want to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
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