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re: \DEVICE\HARDDISK\VOLUME2
Friday, September 23, 2005 at 6:43 am
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Posted by dAVE (1 messages posted)


Hard drive would not boot windows 2000 blue screen. ran repair no good. so I changed hard drive too a slave drive and put it in another computer so I could try and recover data files. thats when I get ( Windows was unable to save all the data for the \DEVICE\HARDDISK\VOLUME2 the data has been lost. This may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere. ) Any thoughts ? Thanks Dave


On Friday, March 11, 2005 at 4:25 pm, Donna Price wrote:
>I have a Toshiba Satellite A75-S206, running XP with SP1......I've been experiencing
>random BSODs, all with a variety of STOP messages. I've wiped out the hard drive
>and reinstalled Windows, updated the BIOS and drivers, running both Toshiba's diagnostic
>test and Memtest86. The tests found nothing amiss but the BSODs are occurring more
>than ever. I would like to go further and test the memory by removing and replacing
>but the current memory is identified as "non-removable memory" and appears attached
>in the slot, with two tiny wires connecting it to a location inside the computer.
>How can I check the memory in this circumstance?
>(Also, if anyone can provide me with detailed instructions on how to access the heatsink
>and fans, I thought I'd check on possible dust buildup there even though the laptop
>will crash within five minutes of being turned on. The only thing revealed by removing
>the two plates on the bottom is the hard drive and the memory.....there are also
>two screens covering the fans but I see no way to pry them out without bending the
>heck out of them. And if someone can relay how to disable caching and shadowing once
>I've entered BIOS, I would be grateful if I could be apprised of it.
>
>SYSTEM MANUFACTURER: Toshiba
>MODEL NAME: Satellite A75
>PART NUMBER: PSA70U - 003002
>SERIAL NUMBER: 64345718K
>SYSTEM TYPE: X86-based PC
>OS VERSION: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
>BIOS VERSION/DATE: Toshiba V1.30 9/10/2004
>SMBIOS VERSION: 2.31
>CPU: Mobil Intel(R) Pentium(R)4 CPU 2.80GHz
>MEMORY: 448MB RAM
>HARD DISK CAPACITY: 60,011,642,880 (Byte) 55.890 (GB)
>HARD DISK FREE SPACE CAPACITY: 53,387,198,464 (Byte) 49,721 (GB)
>VIDEO: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP ver=6.14.10.644
>SCREEN RESOLUTION: 1280x800 Pixel
>COLOR QUALITY: True Color (32 bit)
>SOUND: Realtek AC97 Audio ver=5.10.0.5490
>NETWORK: Atheros AR5004G Wireless Network Adapter ver=3.1.1.54 Mac Addr=00.90.96.B7.26.92
> Realtek RTL8139/8 10x Family Fast Ethernet NIC ver=5.606.811.2003
> MacAddr=00:02:3F:D4:D9:70
>MODEM: TOSHIBA Software Modem ver=2.1.38.0
>IDE DEVICE 1: IC25N060ATMR04-0
>IDE DEVICE 2: None
>IDE DEVICE 3: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2512 Firmware=1420
>IDE DEVICE 4: None
>IDE DEVICE 5: None
>IDE DEVICE 6: None
>INTERNET EXPLORER: 6.0.2800.1106
>PROCESSOR: X86 Family 15 Model3 Stepping 4 Genuine Intel~2800 Mhz
>WINDOWS DIRECTORY: C:\WINDOWS
>SYSTEM DIRECTORY: C:\WINDOws\system32
>BOOT DEVICE: \Device\Harddisk Volume 1
>LOCALE: United States
>TOTAL PHYSICAL MEMORY: 512.00 MB
>PAGE FILE SPACE: 1.03 GB
>PAGE FILE: C:\pagefile.sys
>
>


Written in response to:
Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Donna Price: Friday, March 11, 2005 at 4:25 pm)

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-Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Donna Price: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 4:25 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (triplate: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 5:00 pm)
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-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (triplate: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 6:45 pm)
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-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (triplate: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 7:12 pm)
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