Toshiba Hard Drive Support Uk
Yrko Philogene
I got a used HP off of craigslist, because my Toshiba laptop crashed. I replaced the Hard drive with the one from the Toshiba, but now the CPU thinks it's still a Toshiba! It's trying to look for drives that don't exist, the Bit rate is mixed up, and i can't do certain things because of it!
I know, but the problem is the hard drive that came with it's FULL of viruses, and i don't want to plug both of them into the same device, or even use that one at all. I'm on an allowance right now, so i can't exactly buy a new one, neither can i use both at once, or else the laptop will overheat.
What laptops notebooks are compatible with my ATA Toshiba MK3265GSX HD? I have a HP G62-355DX Notebook with the above mentioned HD. My CPU died. Rather than buy a new CPU for an old laptop I rather buy a newer laptop/notebook and swap out that HD with mine. I need the info on my old HD and there is nothing wrong with my old HD. Any info would help please.
There is nothing wrong with my old HDD. It is the CPU that went out. It is an old laptop and I rather use the old HDD and remove it and put it into a newer laptop/notebook rahter than go through the hassle of transferring data from 1 HDD to another. That is why I am trying to find out what other laptops/notebooks are outhere that my old HDD is compatible with and just swap HDD's. I've done the data tranfer before and don't think it would be easier unless you know something I may not.
I've had this usse for a long time. I bought a brand new Toshiba external harddrive about 3 years ago when I purchased my expensive lemon Lenovo laptop (the piece of junk died on me). When I installed the external to my laptop, I set a password on it. The external is still very brand new. I've barely used it. But the thing is that whenever I go to plug in my mom's laptop, my brother's laptop, or in my pc, it doesn't pick it up AT ALL. The external isn't broken. It lights up blue and it vibrates inside. The only pc where it worked was in my now broken laptop.
If so... there are many reasons a drive is not being recognized properly. Partition loss, bad sectors, file system corruption, virus and so forth. Although in your case I highly doubt its a driver issue.
Was the Toshiba connected to the Lenovo laptop when the laptop crashed? This might have corrupted the drive. Also in rare occasion, if you pull the USB cord without properly ejecting the drive from the taskbar, you could also corrupt the drive if files are being written at the same time its disconnected.
You will need to initialize the drive and give it a drive letter and format. If you had data on it previously, you might be able to recover some or most of it with recovery software afterward. There are free and paid versions out there. Piriform's Recuva is one free alternative that works pretty good.
I attempted to use command promnt to wipe it but couldn't access it, even as the administrator, cus I'm assuming it has to do with the fact that my external is password locked. Then, I went to disk management but the format option wasn't available (it won't let me do it). Then I went to control panel and went to devices, and that was a failure. I also tried to format using a different command key in cmd but the promnt won't read the external. So, I couldn't format it thru cmd or dsk mgmt. I couldn't even assign it a drive letter.
I purchased a Toshiba Canvio Advance to use with my iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (4th generation) running IOS 14. I made this purchase after reading several reviews recommending this device for this purpose. When I attempt to connect the Toshiba Hard Drive with my IPAD Pro the IPAD Pro does not recognize the hard drive. Toshiba Support recommended contacting Apple as the issue is reformatting the hard drive for use on Apple products and, per the Toshiba representative, the information on how to do that with an IPAD Pro has not been provided by Apple.
Did reformatting the drive work for you? I have a western digital drive but there was no way to disconnect the drive so it would error after disconnecting. Do you have that issue with the toshiba drive?
Hi, I have just bought a new Toshiba Canvio Basics HardDrive. I have tried to reformat it to "Mac OS Extended" but i still couldn't put any files in it so I went to Erase and start again and now I don't have the same reformatting options but just a range of APF options? I just want to put my work from my other Toshiba HardDrive onto this one but I can't. Can someone please help?
So I am using an external hard drive my Mac is Mac book pro from early 2015 and I have the most recent upgrade "Monterey". I have done what is on the guide you have provided and at first it gave me lots of options when erasing and reforming the disk including (Mac OS Journaled) which I believe is the right on to reformat my hard drive onto Mac? I tried to drag and drop my files after reformatting but a small circle with a cross on still came up. I am now trying to reformat it again but now only gives me options such as: APFS, APFS (Encrypted) APFS(Case Sensitive) & APFS (Case Sensitive,Encrypted).
Strangely enough I've got one myself, but it's a 500 GB version that I think I bought in 2011 or 2012. I was using it for a bootable backup for my 2007 polycarbonate MacBook. I had a little look at it, and it seemed to have been such that it couldn't mount and couldn't be erased, repartitioned, etc. in Disk Utility. But I'd like to restore it so that it will mount and do backups again. Disk Utility wouldn't work to erase on Snow Leopard or even with my mid-2012 MBP running Catalina. It was totally borked for my Macs.
Strangely the only way I could get it to work again was to use a non-Mac to erase the volume. I connected it to a family member's Windows 10 laptop and used Disk Management to erase the volume, where it didn't recognize the HFS+ (MacOS Extended Journaled) format, which overcame that it wouldn't mount. It might also be possible to do the same with a Chromebook with whatever drive management utility it has.
Once I did that, I could reformat/erase with MacOS's Disk Utility and then use it for a fresh backup. I'm not sure why you don't have the options for MacOS Extended Journaled (HFS+) although there's nothing wrong with using APFS as long as you don't need to connect it to an older Mac that doesn't recognize APFS.
On April 25 2015 I contacted Dell Warranty about my hard drive acting up on my Vostro 3750. They ran diagnostics, concluded it was faulty (HardDrive-Targeted Read Test;CFI:N;KYHD:N;DD:N;DR:N). On April 27th they shipped a replacement under the service request number 910355792. So when it arrived I exchanged the drives and returned the faulty one. Now fast forward to December when I was able to install Windows 10 Pro. Microsoft's website only had a few requirements to run it, mainly RAM, graphics processing, and a up-to-date OS to start with. I was unaware that Dell had a whole list of computers that weren't to be tested with W10. The install went along fine and I let it update all the necessary drivers, having preinstalled only enough for it to start and connect to the internet to update. I was unaware that one of the device drivers didn't get installed and my computer seemed to be running just fine. Then about two weeks ago it started getting slow. I noticed it would start to freeze up a little but it would always unfreeze quickly. Then one week ago I was writing a paper at night(College Sophomore so this computer is pretty much my life) and closed the lid for the night. Now the battery life is already pretty bad so needless to say it died over night, but when I went to turn it back on it took it forever to come on. Easily 10-15 minutes just to make it to the log-in screen. I got it unlocked and brought it back to my office to plug it back in on my desk where it stays almost religiously. I then got on Dell Support, which is where I finally found out the 3750 wasn't tested with W10, and ran a quick diagnostic which said the hard drive, which was listed as a TOSHIBA is in critical condition and needs immediate replacement. At this point I had to see what was going on, so I opened Device Manager went to disk drives and lo and behold it says my hard drive is a TOSHIBA MQ01ACF050. Well that's weird. So I checked my event viewer to make sure and it was indeed migrated, configured and started when I cleared it and installed W10 back in December. There was also an unknown device in the event log which is how I found out about the missing driver. Then to top it off the administrative event log had 16,000 events from the minute I installed W10 till today almost all of which just say harddisk0\DR0 has a bad block. duh. So I am in the process of saving all our important documents to a external hard drive and I guess I will revert it back to W8 but what I really want to know is why did Dell Warranty send me a Toshiba hard drive. Any advice on any of these issues would be sincerely appreciated.
I recently got myself a HP Proliant server Gen 8. I Installed 4 hard drives, all Toshiba's HDWD130's of 3 TB each. I booted the NAS and installed FREENAS on a USB-stick. Freenas only detected two hard drives however. I checked in the ACU and same there: only 2 drivers were detected. I don't understand why this happens.
- Do I need to update the array controller? Maybe it cannot detect more than two drives for whatever reason?
- Do I need Toshiba drivers of some sort? Seems unlikely though...
- Do I need to format the drives and make logical drives of them? Still, it would not make sense because the ACU can discover two drives
- Is it because I'm not using HP hard drives? If that would be the case it does not make sense for the same reason above
- Maybe I need to remove the USB-stick to check if its conflicting with the ACU not being able to discover the 2 other drives?