Zero fill a hard disk

certainly not.it is abnormal to take 20 hours which can be done in simply 5 minutes if you format it using Linux or just zero-fill your hard drive.do you know what is zero-filling?

yes your motherboard will support 250 GB SATA hard disk.

bootabe cd. ensure your system run from bootable cd where dm file have. If you know D.O.S you can do it .now go to hdd >ontrack


step cd hdd>cd ontrack>type dm>select advance > maintainence >utility>zero fill>yes

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There Is problem with Bad sector or Operating System corrupt in your Hard Drive.So pls Repair the Operating system by OS CD ,if issue still not resolved then Pls Replace the RAM chip with another goods one .If still issue not resolved then Hard disk need to Zero filling.Its better to call vendor for the same.

I think this model is still an IDE type. You set the 32GB limit then jump the settings to read the full capacity of the drive. If you are trying to load XP OS from a blank drive.

First prime the hard drive, you can do low level formatting and use third party software to partition and format the drive. on FAT32 partition you can only use 8GByte to make the drive bootable. Make it primary if I remembered it correctly and active. Or use the NTFS format.

You can use also if it have the manufacturers' hard drive utilities to check the hard drive integrity. I know they have it. It also equip with zero fill to renew chain and links of the drive. Then partition, format, primary and active. Then load your OS.

Check also your CD disc integrity, scratches do make a lot of troubles. And also your cdrom/dvdrom drive.

Are you trying to wipe the data from this hard disk by writing ones and zeros on the hard disk?
There are programs such as Wipedisk available on the Internet, do a Google search for such programs.

pls try to repair ur system thru ur backup OS disk which u r using to boot so u see ur desktop or u see only recovery console like thing u can always restore ur system to factory default but first try to repair it thru backup disk see if it works other wise let me know abt it

fast way to restore to factory settings

Toshiba: BEFORE TURNING ON THE LAPTOP, press and hold the 0 (zero) button on the keyboard, then turn on the computer while holding the 0 (zero) button down. When the Toshiba logo screen appears, you can release the 0 key.

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if unable to turn on the screen just lights flashing
RAM is faulty try replacing it , if u have two chips try installing one by one see if it helps

or

if it shows some text on screen and try to boot and u can access bios then

ur OS has corrupted two reasons for that

1. due to virus, malware spyware, etc
2. Hard Disk is getting weak wants replacement

solution first try to re install the OS if u find it difficult to do so then my friend ur hard disk needs replacement

factory reset procedure

Toshiba: BEFORE TURNING ON THE LAPTOP, press and hold the 0 (zero) button on the keyboard, then turn on the computer while holding the 0 (zero) button down. When the Toshiba logo screen appears, you can release the 0 key.

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The volume serial number is automatically generated when you format the drive. By using the Seagate utility to zero fill the drive, you have made it blank and destroyed all data, including the partition table and filesystem. Re-partition and re-format the drive.