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I have been given a Toshiba laptop which has been left turned on when the battery has gone dead. The hard drive was unreadable, and on attempting to format it, I get the message 'Trying to recover allocation unit' and a number, which increases slowly up to about 15000 and then stops. I have tried running fdisk and partitioning the drive, and have been able to produce a small partition (10Mb) which formats ok. Has anyone any good ideas?
sounds like the parameters for the hard drive arent set up correclty in the system BIOS
If the battery went dead its almost a certainty that the settings are incorrect
OK, thanks for that, however, I have tried the latest flash bios from Toshiba's website, which loaded successfully and hasn't made any difference. Still looking!
no MS792
you misunderstood
I didnt say anything about flashing the BIOS I said that the hard drive parameters are not set up correctly
In simple terms, the system does not know how to talk to it
Point taken , but I have also run the tsetup DOS program for setting the bios and it won't allow any changes to the hard drive settings. I presume it must detect them automatically, although this does seem surprising on such an old machine. I am no frther forward.