Toshiba EQUIUM L300D Laptop User Manual


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2Troubleshooting 2.52.5-inchHDD
2-12 SatelliteL300D/L305D/SatelliteProL300D/EQUIUML300D/SATEGOL300DMaintenanceManual
createaDOSpartitionondriveC.Thenrestartthecomputer.Ifthe
problempersists,gotoProcedure3.
Check3 IfdriveCislistedasactiveintheFDISKmenu,performCheck4.Ifdrive
Cisnotlistedasactive,returntotheFDISKmenuandchoosetheoption
tosettheactivepartitionfordriveC.Thenrestartthecomputer.Ifthe
problempersists,performCheck4.
Check4 EnterDIRC:andpresstheEnterkey.Ifthefollowingmessageis
displayed,gotoProcedure3.IfcontentsofdriveCarelistedonthe
display,performCheck5.
InvalidmediatypereadingdriveC
Abort,Retry,Fail?
Check5 UsetheSYScommandintheDOSsystemtoinstallsystemfiles.
Ifthefollowingmessageappearsonthedisplay,thesystemfileshavebeen
transferredtotheHDD.Restartthecomputer.Iftheproblempersists,go
toProcedure3.
Systemtransferred
NOTE:IfthecomputerisrunningWindowsVistaHomeeditionandtheharddiskcapacity
ismorethan512MB,theFDISKprogramwillaskifyouneedsupportforapartition
largerthan2GB.SelectYforlargepartitionsupport;however,besuretoreadthe
precautionregardingaccessbyotheroperatingsystems.
Procedure3FormatCheck
The2.5-inchHDDisformattedusingthelow-levelformatprogramandtheFREE-DOS
FORMATprogram.Usingtheseprograms,followthestepsbelowtoformattheHDD.
Check1 EnterFORMATC:/S/UtoformattheHDDandtransfersystemfiles.If
thefollowingmessageappearsonthedisplay,theHDDhasbeenformatted.
Formatcomplete
IfyoucannotformattheHDDusingthetestprogram,gotoProcedure4.
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