Satellite A50-512 PSA50E - IDE #0 ERROR

SATELLITE SA50-512 It does'nt detect any harddrive.
In Acpi bios V. 1.20 i get the msg.:
DRIVES I/0
BUILT-IN HDD
=NO DRIVE
CD-ROM =SECONDARY IDE(170H/IRQ15)
And in dos the msg.:
IDE #0 ERROR
It is NOT hdd problem, because i have tried 3 other harddrives from Toshiba with same rpm and cap. and 2 other in the store without any luck.(All harddrives working perfectly on other laptops
It is a very old Pc and therefor i do not have any recovery cd for it either.
It has no Fdd so updating bios with Cd was unsuccessful.(couldnt make diskett from Bios-update file "P0015v140" in other computer either)
I have tried everything i could find on google in over 3 weeks without any luck.
So wondering if there is a way to fix this....
Thanks

Thats really strange
Looks like the notebook is muddled up completely
On the Toshiba European driver page (in Archive area) the BIOS 1.40-Win version has been published.
But its a win based version and can be upgraded only from running Windows system.
In my opinion the technician should check the hardware parts (HDD controller, motherboard) maybe the guys would be able to update the BIOS using an special BIOS version

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> This occurs if there is different pin assignment on
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