I am working on toshiba laptop A105-s2001. It has no floppy available. 3 weeks ago hard drive failed, so I purchased a new toshiba mk8052gsx hard disk. Swapped the drives, booted recovery cd(from toshiba) and reinstalled the software. Worked fine.
Now, here’s the question. Operating system is corrupt again. Windows will load a screen, upon boot up, saying the software did not load correctly and gives safe mode, safe mode with networking, etc.etc. No option works. It will start loading windows files and locks up.
So, I had a second toshiba hard drive. Same model. When I try to use the recovery cd it will load the files and get to a screen that says please wait….system locks. I tried to let the hard disk set for 1 hour to see if I was just being inpatient, but system is just plain locked up.
On the 2nd hard disk, I also just let it load normally and I get an error saying ntldr is missing. But, recovery cd, windows xp pro, and windows vista will not get past the please wait screens for doing a fresh install.
I do have a second computer tower, with sata cables available. So I check the drives with diagnostic utilities, and they come up fine. What do I do. It is like the drive is not booting. All drives are recognized in bios on the laptop(which does not have a floppy).
