It appears from the description that you have given that the hard disk has
died. Has your friend called Toshiba tech support ro the place where it was
purchased? Try that.

Bob Brown
{You break it - I fix it -Well Sort of}

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> From: Bridgett Perry <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] can not detect hard drive
> Date: Friday, February 20, 1998 11:44 PM
>
> My friend has a Toshiba TECRA 510cdt laptop.  Her hard drive "chirps" on
> boot up, stalling after the memory check and eventually asks for a
> startup disk.  She did not make a boot disk prior to this problem (slap
> on wrist) but we have used Nortons 3.0 for W95 emergency disk.  We have
> followed all the directions for recovery but Norton's can not detect the
> hard drive.  Even in the Advance tools of Disk Editor.  I have made a
> boot disk from my PC that allows me to boot the laptop to an "a" prompt
> but it does not allow me to change to the "c" drive...invalid!
>
> ANy suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Bridgett Perry