My toshiba hard drive is locked and i can't unlock it ?

SOURCE: removal of bios level password

Some laptops are passworded default at'oooo' or 'ooooo'. The bios re-set is the 'JBAT1' terminal, from jumpers 1-2 to 2-3 for a few seconds and then back to 1-2 again, but where the terminal is exactly on your motherboard i do not know. You may also try removing the bios didc shaped battery for 15 minutes or so, then replacing.

Pedro

• 233 Answers
• Posted on Jan 08, 2008

SOURCE: Toshiba Satellite Pro 440 CDT

the password is on the CMOS, best thing to do is open it up, find the CMOS battery and disconnect it for a few minutes.

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SOURCE: line 0 of hivesft.inf is not formating the hard drive and it stop

Oy, this sounds like a bad sector where a nessicary file for your computer's well being was.
Well, if you can, you can "attempt" to go into safe mode. Press F8 on bootup repeatedly and select enter safe mode, then go into system restore (if it doesn't prompt you to) and choose a date at least 5 days back, if that works, then immediately after do a full scan of your hard drive (right clicking on C:, properties then selecting the approriate Scandisk tool and check to automatically fix errors (it'll need to reboot).

Either that or
You can boot via the vista disk and copy the file you need to your harddrive, you will need to use the xcopy command. However, since I'm fairly unfamiliar with vista (I hate it to put it untechnically.) you'll have to contact Toshiba tech support to talk about where the file will need to go, but it really isn't too tough.
Finally, if all else fails, you'll need to take that hard drive out of the laptop (usually some screws on the bottom just hold it in, once they're undone the whole hard drive can slide out,), buy an enclosure for it(20 dollars at most computer retailers, be sure to bring the drive with you to ask them which you need), plug it into another computer, attempt to salvage all the data you want to keep, then, right click the drive, select format, and do a complete format.
Then, pop it back into your laptop, boot using the Vista dvd, and reinstall the operating system.
It's a pain I know, but sometimes if the disk is that corrupt that it can't even boot it needs to be done. Consider scanning the drive again afterwards, and looking at the results of the scan, if the bad sector count is in the thousands (and bigger than just a few megabytes) then it's time for a new drive anyways.

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SOURCE: I can not make my recovery disc.

if you have recovery disc in dvd, just insert the recovery disc in dvd room.then restart you pc hit f12 to boot from the cd..after before you contenuing the instalation well ask if delete all or format.. befor to contenui be sure that you make partition in your drive.. ther are option to make partition, then contenui the installation with the recovery disc original.. good luck

Dana Newcombe

• 1564 Answers
• Posted on Sep 07, 2009

SOURCE: Toshiba Qosmio laptop with Phoenix securecore

You've probably got to have your computer configured to boot from a rescue CD before it can recognize and install the new harddrive. Also make sure that there is an operating system installed on the hard drive . If not it will not do anything until you install one. This will be automatic if you install a new XP or Vista DVD into the computer's DVD drive the reboot.

Testimonial: "I'll go out to Toshiba and get a rescue disk. FYI:I booted up with an XP disk to try to load the OS, but keep getting the blue screen"