Toshiba EQUIUM L300D Problempersists,gotoProcedure3 Check3, Problempersists,performCheck4, Check5

2￿￿Troubleshooting￿		2.5￿￿2.5-inch￿HDD￿
	create￿a￿DOS￿partition￿on￿drive￿C.￿￿Then￿restart￿the￿computer.￿￿If￿the￿
	problem￿persists,￿go￿to￿Procedure￿3.￿
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Check￿3￿	If￿drive￿C￿is￿listed￿as￿active￿in￿the￿FDISK￿menu,￿perform￿Check￿4.￿￿If￿drive￿
	C￿is￿not￿listed￿as￿active,￿return￿to￿the￿FDISK￿menu￿and￿choose￿the￿option￿
	to￿set￿the￿active￿partition￿for￿drive￿C.￿Then￿restart￿the￿computer.￿If￿the￿
	problem￿persists,￿perform￿Check￿4.￿
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Check￿4￿	Enter￿DIR￿C:￿and￿press￿the￿Enter￿key.￿￿If￿the￿following￿message￿is￿
	displayed,￿go￿to￿Procedure￿3.￿￿If￿contents￿of￿drive￿C￿are￿listed￿on￿the￿
	display,￿perform￿Check￿5.￿
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	Invalid￿media￿type￿reading￿drive￿C￿
	Abort,￿Retry,￿Fail?￿
Check￿5￿	Use￿the￿SYS￿command￿in￿the￿DOS￿system￿to￿install￿system￿files.￿
￿	If￿the￿following￿message￿appears￿on￿the￿display,￿the￿system￿files￿have￿been￿
	transferred￿to￿the￿HDD.￿￿Restart￿the￿computer.￿￿If￿the￿problem￿persists,￿go￿

to￿Procedure￿3.￿ System￿transferred￿

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NOTE:￿If￿the￿computer￿is￿running￿Windows￿Vista￿Home￿edition￿and￿the￿hard￿disk￿capacity￿ is￿more￿than￿512￿MB,￿the￿FDISK￿program￿will￿ask￿if￿you￿need￿support￿for￿a￿partition￿ larger￿than￿2￿GB.￿￿Select￿Y￿for￿large￿partition￿support;￿however,￿be￿sure￿to￿read￿the￿ precaution￿regarding￿access￿by￿other￿operating￿systems.￿

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Procedure￿3￿￿Format￿Check￿

The￿2.5-inch￿HDD￿is￿formatted￿using￿the￿low-level￿format￿program￿and￿the￿FREE-DOS￿FORMAT￿program.￿￿Using￿these￿programs,￿follow￿the￿steps￿below￿to￿format￿the￿HDD.￿

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Check￿1￿ Enter￿FORMAT￿C:/S/U￿to￿format￿the￿HDD￿and￿transfer￿system￿files.￿￿If￿ the￿following￿message￿appears￿on￿the￿display,￿the￿HDD￿has￿been￿formatted.￿

Format￿complete￿

￿	If￿you￿cannot￿format￿the￿HDD￿using￿the￿test￿program,￿go￿to￿Procedure￿4.￿
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2-12￿Satellite￿L300D/L305D/Satellite￿Pro￿L300D/EQUIUM￿L300D/SATEGO￿L300D￿￿￿￿￿Maintenance￿Manual￿