Re: "Load Error! Press a key to reboot ..."

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From: D.Currie (dmbcurrie.nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:07:27 -0600

"Desperate User" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:244601c4ad4d$77db8a20$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Help, 4 mth old Toshiba Satellite A30 with a 60GB Hitachi
> hard drive has suddenly stopped booting.
>
> It went back in for wty repairs - to be told motherboard
> issue, was 2 day turnaround, has come back 2 weeks later
> in the same state, it left in. Have given up with
> Toshiba.
>
> Heading interstate Sun night and need laptop going for
> data logging at kart race meeting DESPERATELY.
>
> Recovery disks - useless, Win XP reinstall - useless, can
> get a BIOS from Toshiba's site - useless unless the
> laptop has a 3.5" drive to use as it won't go to any
> other media.
>
> No matter how many times, I reboot, I cannot get past
> this and at least recognise the hard drive, so I can do a
> straight out re-format, etc.
>
> Norton recovery - useless.
>
> As you can see by the time logged on this post - now
> almost 2 am and I've been at this since 6pm last night.
>
> PLEASE help - any ideas are greatly appreciated in
> advance.
>
> Thank you

If the bios won't recognize the hard drive, there aren't any software
solutions that are going to do you any good. It's pretty obvious that you've
got a hardware problem, and with a laptop, the possibilities are limited.
It's the motherboard, the hard drive, or the connection between the two.

If you had an adapter, you could test the hard drive in a regular PC, but if
it's under warranty, there's really no sense in you spending the time
troubleshooting it if it's going to require parts anyway.

The one thing you might want to try, though, is making sure the hard drive
is seated firmly. Depending on how it's installed, it's remotely possible
that it could have lost contact.

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