Satellite C660-1J2 hard disk failed

I've got some problems
First i can't write very well english
Second and the true problem is that when i use my laptop it can't go to the windows seven because it can't boot the the hard disk
The hard disk sounds oddly (a cyclic sound like "pchuk tak, pchuk tak")
And finally i live in Antananarivo Madagascar, there no Toshiba partner here
Thank you!!!!!

Hi
Sounds (!) like the HDD is faulty.
I think you need a new one ;(
Usually you can use any 2.5 SATA HDD.
You could order the HDD and could replace this yourself its not very tricky as you can see this here:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/ann.jspa?annID=138

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I have Lodes of confidential Documents that are not stored anywhere else and i really need to gain acsess to it is there a way i can recover or fix my HDD or am i going to lose so much data my company is going to crash amd burn

Hi
In most cases the data is lost if the HDD is faulty and you did not create any backups.
But I found also nice offer from Toshiba here:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/services/home
Here choose Data Recovery.
You can purchase different Data Recovery Service for Hard Disk Drives. Such services is good for the future. Now you could ask Toshiba hotline for other date recovery services but of course you will have to pay for such data recovery.

Satellite C660-1CV - hard disk crashed in 2 days

I have purchased Toshiba laptop(C660-1CV) from a local dealer just before two days. I had loaded VMware along with couple of VMs and some other important software.
In spite of my company insisting for lenevo I had gone for Toshiba because I trust the brand and I have had real good experience with Toshiba. Today morning that is after two days of purchase of laptop the hard disk crashed and I got a black screen no OS prompt, nothing. My dealer said he cannot do anything I have to take it to Al Futtiam service center. The service center guy just re-connected the hard disk and it didnt work, he straight away made a statement that hard disk needs to be replaced and it will another 4 to 5 days. He said for taking a back-up of your data I have to pay 99 AED. Isnt that strange enough ??? My own laptop which is just 2 days old crashed and I have to pay for getting my data. The technical guy did not do any other troubleshooting except reconnecting the hard disk.
I want to escalate it to the right level in Toshiba. if anybody has any contacts in UAE region pass it on to me.

Hi pmavani,
Im sorry to hear that that HDD died after 2 days that not normally but such things can happen, especially with HDD that is a mechanical part. But dont worry this case is covered by warranty so you can get a new HDD for free from an authorized service provider and as the guy said it takes 4 or 5 days. Thats ok so the notebook can repaired within one week.
> He said for taking a back-up of your data I have to pay 99 AED. Isnt that strange enough ???
No, thats not strange enough. Warranty doesnt cover backup, you have to do this yourself. Thats the reason why you should install and configure backup software before you do anything.

Satellite C660-1J2: Toshiba warranty in Madagascar

Hi everybody
I have bought Toshiba Satellite C660 1J2 from Belgique and i live in Madagascar.
There is no Toshiba official partner in Antananarivo
So where can i go to repair my computer?
The warranty is still working
Thank you!

Hi
It seems that Toshiba ASP is not available in Madagascar but it look like one ASP is available on Reunion:
<img src='http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/3782/captureagk.png' width=530px>
Here you can find all ASPs worldwide
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/generic/ASP_SUPPORT
Did you purchase an extended warranty / service?
Im asking because the EMEA limited standard warranty is available only in EMEA region.
So you will need to get in contact with an ASP in Belgium
but it seems that only your HDD needs to be replaced... so maybe the ASP could send you the new HDD and you could replace this yourself

14 Months and the Hard Disk Fails!!!!!

Well I am raging, I have had the Mac for 14 months now, and at the 12 month point I had the option of extending the warranty, because of Christmas I had only one opportunity to buy over the phone, from a cold call!! Now I never do this and told them that, they said its a one chance only because they are closed over Christmas.
So 2 weeks ago my hard disk failed, its damaged beyond even data recovery!! I have tried to find an online complaints procedure, err none to be found. I think it is shocking that a piece of equipment should fail less than 2 months out of warranty!!
Anyone with any advice for a complaints procedure would be greatly appreciated.
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Had one lady opt out of one on an iPod , Apple only covers for 15 days , something happened on the 17th day , she was out almost 200 bucks and nothing could be done. SOL
Why did you rip off the old lady? Just because she didn't buy the extended warranty?
You are obviously cluelss. The iPod warranty is for one full year, not 15 days.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304869#faq2
"How long is my iPod covered by Apple’s warranty?
Your iPod or iPod shuffle is covered for one year by Apple’s Limited Warranty for iPod. Warranty service for eligible repairs is available at no charge for twelve months from the date of original retail purchase (”date of purchase”). If you have purchased an AppleCare Protection Plan for iPod, there will be no shipping and handling fee. A $29.95 shipping and handling fee will apply to all warranty repairs performed six months after date of purchase."

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Toshiba Satellite L650-07U, Hard disk failure and replacement

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At the time of first use I installed Windows 7 64 bit edition, and made Recovery DVDs, and at second time of restore to factory setting I had installed Windows 7 32 bit. I have confusion about recovery DVDs (which is not booting from default DVD-Writer of Laptop), either it has 64 Bit recovery data or 32 bit? Or have both 64 and 32 bit Data.
Toshiba restore to factory setting without using any recovery DVD/USB is the best possible way to restore Windows 7, How can I make same recover hidden partitions from original/faulty hard drives to new hard drive partitions? Is this possible and how?
On Default hard drive there was one partition of 561GB instead of two or more partitions. Is this possible to split partitions in new hard drives instead of one big partition?
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masterleous
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Satellite L650-07U (PSK1EC-07U00Q)
This site is for US computers. I doubt you'll get your questions for that Canadian model answered here.
There appear to be two recovery partitions. Maybe one for 32- and one for 64-bit Windows. Or maybe one is for English and the other for French.
Your User's Manual isn't much help either. You probably need to ask Toshiba tech support in Canada.
About all I have to offer is this: Be wary of drives with advanced-format technology. See my message about that.
-Jerry

Hard disk failing SMART test

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Smart Utilities shows only one problem: Reallocated bad sectors with value=8, threshold=36, gross value=3760.
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The most worrying thing is that the count of reallocated bad sectors seems to be increasing slowly but steadily over time.
Everything works fine once the start up sequence is complete but it seems clear from the system indication that The hdd must be replaced sooner rather than later.
Imac 27" i7 late 2009 with 1To hdd, still under Apple Care plan
My questions are:
- At this stage can the hdd fails anytime or do I still have some time to change it ?
- Will this S.M.A.R.T failure and the hdd replacement be taken care of by Apple Care immediately or will they want to wait until it fails completely ?
- How easy will it be to restore my entire system on a new hard disk from the time capsule ? (iphoto collection, itunes library, installed third party apps, emails... All of this will work fine after a restore on a brand new hard disc ?)
- After restoring from time capsule will the ipad or ipod be able to synchronize with itunes as if nothing happened ?
Maybe someone in here had similar troubles with their hdd and can shed some light on this.

My questions are:
- At this stage can the hdd fails anytime or do I still have some time to change it ?
- Will this S.M.A.R.T failure and the hdd replacement be taken care of by Apple Care immediately or will they want to wait until it fails completely ?
- How easy will it be to restore my entire system on a new hard disk from the time capsule ? (iphoto collection, itunes library, installed third party apps, emails... All of this will work fine after a restore on a brand new hard disc ?)
- After restoring from time capsule will the ipad or ipod be able to synchronize with itunes as if nothing happened ?
Maybe someone in here had similar troubles with their hdd and can shed some light on this.
Your HD is failing. Backup immediately!!!
Yes AppleCare will take care of it, contact them immediately.
It's very easy to restore your system, if you bring your Time Capsule in when the repair is done the Apple Store or AASP should be able to help you do the restore. Do not repeat do not do it wirelessly though!
After the restore has been completed everything should be back to normal including your syching the iPod & iPad.

Satellite M30X - high hard disk drive utilization

After login in Windows XP (SP2), my toshiba laptop is very slow. The hard disk drive light is continuously on for 5 minutes. I've looked at the task manager, but CPU utilization is low and RAM usage is low. There is no program that seems to use a lot of CPU or RAM.
I've actually turned off the paging file to see if the problems due to intensive use of the paging file on the HDD, but problem persists. The model of the laptop is Satellite M30X-113.
I don't know if it's related, but this problem arose around the time that I've taken out a 256 MB RAM module and installed a 512 MB one (making the total ram memory 1024 MB).

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> I don't know if it's related, but this problem arose around the time that I've taken out a 256 MB RAM module and installed a 512 MB one (making the total ram memory 1024 MB).
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Hi and I have a problem.
I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite P200-1EE series laptop running (of all things) Vista and nothing but problems ever since so im trying to install XP professional and overwrite Vista.
But whenever I try to install it says "hard disk not found..... unable to access"
I've heard of problems like this before something like a "software block protocol"
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Hi!
Why you dont search in the forum before you start a new topic?
I mean you will hundreds of threads about this issue here in the forum and you will find the solution of your problem in few minutes.
Well, the reason for this is because you need the SATA drivers before you can install Windows XP. As far as I know your notebook is equipped with an Intel chipset and so you need the Intel Storage Manager. You can integrate the drivers using an external FDD or nLite [www.nliteos.com]. Furthermore this document could be useful for you:
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD9401AN0000R01.htm
If you have more questions, please use the forum search!!!
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Hard disk failing?

Hello everybody,
My computer started having problems this morning.
I have a Macbook Pro Unibody from 2008 running Lion (the first unibody that came out) with 320 gb hard disk and 4gb RAM.
Yesterday, everything was doing just fine, I put on some music before going to bed and set up an app called iTaf to stop iTunes automatically after an hour. I didn't ask it to shut the computer down though.
When I woke up this morning, my computer was stuck on a grey screen and was completely unresponsive. I could'nt do anything else but force shut it down with the power button.
After rebooting, my computer was extremely sluggish and was pretty much unresponsive. I force shut it down a couple of times (it wouldn't shut down properly), but the problem was remaining.
I tried starting it up in safe boot mode, but after 2 hours, my computer still hadn't booted and the loading circle kept spinning.
Now, everytime I turn my computer on, I still have the safe boot mode screen (grey screen with the circle spinning and the loading bar filling a little bit, then disappearing and the circle keeps spinning, without anything else happening) and it won't reboot like it did before I started safe boot mode.
I ran Disk Utility through Internet recovery (I don't have a Super Drive anymore) and it says that everything's ok with my hard disk. Mackintosh HD is not mounted though and locked (I have Filevault enabled). When I try to unlock the drive, it won't accept my password (I have an azerty keyboard and the layout was set to US. I changed it back to French, but it still won't accept my password, probably because it contains the letter " à " and the french layout doesn't kick in.).
So I tried running single user mode, and when I type in the fsck -fy command, this is what I get:
CoreStorageGroup: :complete IORequest - error 0xe00002ca detected for LVG "Macintosh HD" (E97F03A2-D03C-48C0-85D2-B470539CC780), pv F0B573D5-41D5-42E9-8B1D-7E432E4C99F6, near LV byte
disk1: I/O error.
Invalid record count
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** The volume Mackintosh HD could not be verified completely.
/dev/rdisk1 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
What is strange though, is that I can still run my computer under guest mode and surf the internet...
I don't understand what's going on, can anyone help me?
If the hard disk is failing, do you think I could still recover some important files I added this week and had no time to back up?

As an FYI, the only product on the market for drive/system testing on CoreStorage components on a "live" system to the best of my knowledge is Scannerz:
http://www.scsc-online.com
Don't go out and buy it, because that's likely not your problem. What the system is telling you is that you have an INDEXING problem.
Consider the following: You go to a library and you want to find a book on a topic. How do you do it? Do you start at the first shelf you see and then sequentially search from shelf to shelf to shelf, possibly from hundreds of thousand (or even millions) of books until you find the book? Of course not. You go to the libraries catalog, look it up and then go to the right shelf. Hard drives use index files the same way. When a file is requested, the drive looks at its index, then moves directly to the sectors containing the information.
Now, suppose you go to the library and you go to look up a book in the index files, and someone has stolen some of them (or if they're on a computer, they've deleted them...same thing). There's no information available at all. There's no way to find out where the books associated with the index files are. This is essentially what's happened to your hard drive. Some of the index files are corrupt, and in your case the index files that are missing are associated with the OS actually in the process of loading, hence the failure to boot.
This problem can be caused by the following:
1. Some of the sectors containing the startup information are corrupt (essentially a drive failure).
2. An application you have somehow or another managed to overwrite the indexing or startup files with information that doesn't make sense.
Like I said, Scannerz is, to the best of my knowledge the only application that can currently test CoreStorage components on a "live" system which would be needed in your case because you're using fully encrypted volumes, but it's of little value to you at this point. Even if you mounted and booted from an external drive and ran Scannerz on it and it confirmed that the sectors in the startup section of the drive were bad, all that would do is identify the source of the problem for you, not correct it. There is no utility on Earth than can properly recover information from a completely damaged sector (although some claim they can ... they're lying) any more than you can recover information from a paper page that someone set on fire and burned to ash.
The only option for you that MIGHT work would be Disk Warrior which can HOPEFULLY rebuild and remap the index files. Be forewarned of the following though:
1. It can't perform miracles. It may or may not be able to re-generate the index files for you.
2. It's a fairly old utility and how much they've kept up with changing technology, file system changes, etc. is unknown to me. Core Storage is NEW technology and I have no way of knowing how something like Disk Warrior will handle it. I would like to think they'll get around to dealing with it in the near future if they haven't already.
Here's a link to their website:
http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior
I hope this helps you make your decision, and good luck!

Boot to folder - hard disk fail - undetectable - what to do to recover data

Hi all
My Macbook Pro 13" (320GB Hard-Disk) 2.66GHz recently couldn't boot up. Had this question mark folder sign on a white screen, alternating with a no entry sign and the apple logo.
My MBP had Lion OS loaded onto it. When i called Apple Help Line, they asked me to press alt/option, only Recovery HD was available, not Macintosh HD anymore. tried to boot up onto Recovery HD, but this was unsuccessful. So the Apple guy on the phone asked me to bring it in to an Apple Authorised Service Provider.
Did so and the engineer diagnosis was: "tested with KGB HDD cable, unable to detect HDD, unable to backup data"
they said it's likely a physical problem.
I have a DVD of Disk Warrior 4.3 (http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/) - i wonder if i should try to use it , but am worried what it could do to reorganise the directory etc, thereby causing future problems, e.g. other more expert data recovery professionals from recovering data.
DiskWarrior is not a disk repair program in the conventional sense. Instead of patching the original directory, it uses a patent-pending technology to quickly build a new replacement directory using data recovered from the original directory, thereby recovering files, folders and documents that you thought were lost and that no other program could recover.
any one has any suggestions? should i utilise more professional services like http://www.datasavers.com.sg/index.php?
the apple center quoted me a range of SGD 1000-2000 if they sent it to the Apple Data Recovery Center to try to recover the data..
thanks in advance!

thing is my timemachine (updated as of Oct 2011) also just failed!
it's a Western Digital 1TB My Book Media
- 1 partition is MS DOS FAT32 -- working well
- other partition is Mac OS Extended (journalled) - which is my Time Machine stuff
it can't mount
this is message when i used Disk Utility's First Aid
"Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
thing is , i cannot even mount it, so how do i back up as many files as possible?
hmm

Satellite L55-A5299 Hard Disk Problem

My laptop has a pop-up saying Windows detected a hard disk problem, I have already backed up my stuff. I also did a complete restore of the laptop and that still didn't make it go away. What do I have to do?

Hi Ishaan,
I have already backed up my stuff. I also did a complete restore of the laptop and that still didn;t make it go away.
I just want to verify the word "complete restore" does it mean wiping the entire computer back to factory settings?
On my own option this is something to do about the internal hdd that is to became failing. So I would suggest if you still have warranty of your laptop contact toshiba # 1800.457.7777 business time 8am-2am the following day EST. Or if the laptop doesnt have warranty anymore, better buy a new hdd.
Hope this will work for you. ^_^
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HELP! Hard disk failing

Hi
Need help here.
my iMac's hard disk is failing! I ran disk utility and indicated a fatal hardware and ask that I backup my drive.
I am planning to buy a hard disk and run time machine. But I'm new to this. can someone provide a sep by step on what I need to do. I will have to buy an internal harddisk to replace the one in iMac too.
Once I time machined my stuff. How do I get it transferred to the new HD?
Also how do I make my hard drive a bootable drive? I am no expert in this.. please help.... SOON !

It depends on how much data you change.
My iMac has a 320gb drive and I use a 320gb external drive for backup which lasted about 4 months before filling up.
Time machine works incrementally, so let's say you have 100gb of data on your iMac, the 1st backup will be 100gb. After that, let's say you update 1gb of files everyday, Time machine would add 1gb to the current 100gb each day, so tomorrow the total would stand at 102gb, then 103gb etc etc.
Once the drive is full, it starts deleting the oldest information to enable it to continue backing up.
I would say the best approach would be to get something at least twice the size of your 'stored' data, so if you have 250gb of data on your machine, then get at least a 500gb drive to give you a few months run before it starts deleting data from the backup.

Hp G61 hard disk fail

The hard disk has failed on this laptop, I've run tests through startup and tried removing and replacing the hard disk but it will not load. I'm not too bothered about the laptop itself being recovered but there are files I can't access that I desperately want to recover. When I try to run a safe mode startup or a recovery startup it stops at loading the drivers for the hard disk.
Is there anything I can do?

When you run chkdsk on the drive, be sure to do it from a "elevated" command prompt i.e run cmd as administrator. So when you plug in the hard drive/usb adapter to the other computer the drive does not "mount" as a lettered drive and allow you to browse the contents with Windows Explorer?
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