Hey all, I have a Toshiba Satellite A135 with Windows Vista. A couple days ago it started acting up, freezing up and taking forever to do anything. I ran the error check feature, which located a lot of bad sectors. The computer ran while I was at work, locating the bad sectors. When I got home, I noticed that the computer was unsuccessfully attempting to boot from the network. I went into BIOS and learned that I have no hard drive listed in the main screen. The boot screen also does not have a hard drive listed.
I read in some other threads on this forum that the hard drive might be loose or have a bad connection. I located my hard drive, but I cannot figure out how to take it out and re seat it, and don't want to break it. Any suggestions?
To further complicate things, I lost my system restore disk that Toshiba provided with the new computer. If I were to purchase a new hard drive (or somehow formatted this one) and a new system restore disk, would I be able to reload all the original software and drivers from the system restore disk?
Thanks in advance for any help!
I read in some other threads on this forum that the hard drive might be loose or have a bad connection. I located my hard drive, but I cannot figure out how to take it out and re seat it, and don't want to break it. Any suggestions?
To further complicate things, I lost my system restore disk that Toshiba provided with the new computer. If I were to purchase a new hard drive (or somehow formatted this one) and a new system restore disk, would I be able to reload all the original software and drivers from the system restore disk?
Thanks in advance for any help!
