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Questions tagged [toshiba-hard-drive]

A range of hard drives by Toshiba. Use this tag if your question is about configuring, installing or otherwise using Toshiba-branded hard drives.

Toshiba is a Japanese manufacturer of electronics, computers and other goods. This tag should be used if your question is about configuring, installing or otherwise using Toshiba-branded hard drives, including internal and external drives.

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Do I need to edit SCT Error Recovery Control time?

I plan to setup raid6 (lsi) or make pool(windows10). I have several hdds. === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Toshiba MG07ACA... Enterprise Capacity HDD Device Model: TOSHIBA MG07ACA12TE Serial Number: LU WWN Device Id: 5…
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Can an external backup drive became uninitialized on its own?

I have a brand new Toshiba 3Tb external that I used once to store by back-ups while I gave my computer a clean state, (after a couple years she was starting to lag.) After backing up, I tested the drive and information on it before formatting my…
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Can I install this Toshiba HDD in a MacBook?

The internal HDD in my white MacBook is broken. I have a spare Toshiba laptop HDD which I plan to install in the MacBook but when I compare the broken MacBook HDD (Hitachi brand) and the Toshiba HDD side by side I see that there is an extra set of…
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Toshiba External Hard Drive freezes computer

I bought a Toshiba Canvio Basics E05A032BAU2XK Portable External 320GB 2.5 Hard Drive: My computer has two OS's on it: Windows 7 and Windows XP. I need both. The main one I use is XP. When booting my computer in any OS the computer and hard drive…
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Toshiba StorE Art External HDD Drive not recognized on Windows 7

I have a Toshiba StorE Art, 3.5” external drive and a Dell XPS l702X. The problem is I just got the laptop and now the HDD doesn’t get recognized on the machine. All my USB drivers are correctly installed and there is no yellow symbol on any of the…
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Toshiba p300 2TB internal drive, meaning of 6 beeps?

I've just purchased a toshiba P300 internal 2TB sata hard drive. However I'm getting 6 beeps, what does this mean? Also there 2 pins rather than 4, couldn't this need a jumper? Here's a video showing the 6 beeps / noises…
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SMART Extended Self-test keeps aborting "manually"

So I have this older 1TB Toshiba hard drive (P/N MK1059GSM), and it won't finish a Smart Extended Self-Test... The drive seems to work fine in operation, and a short self-test completes normally, but after about 15 minutes of performing an extended…
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Toshiba external HDD shows no media in disk management

I have a Toshiba 2TB external HDD which was not showing in explorer (windows 7). I opened disk management, it showed the volume size and all. First I tried assigning a letter but nothing new happened. So I formatted the disk, it took long time…
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Laptop & Netbook's Hard Drives not being detected - both are Toshiba HDDs

I have a problem with my Acer Aspire One D255, and now again with my Sony Vaio laptop. The Acer fell about 1 foot 2 days ago. Since then the hard disk is not being detected in the BIOS. I opened the Netbook and removed it and re inserted the hard…
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PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

My unit is toshiba Tecra R940 installed with windows 7. It became so slow and I think it could be with some virus. So I do reinstall of the OS. I load the installer on DVD, delete the partition with the OS and create a new partition but this time I…
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how can i install Kali Linux on my toshiba, OS windows 8.1

I have been trying for days to get Kali Linux to install on my computer. Every time i try to install it, it says: THIS PROGRAM DOESNT SUPPORT WINDOWS 6.2.9200 SPO YET. I see that it clearly says that it doesnt support it, YET. Is there a way around…
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My Toshiba Satellite 580GB drive continues to loose about 30GB and 20GB a day

I have been backing up the entire C: drive on a WD Passport** - also have moved almost 900GB to a Seagate Free Agent GoFlex 3TB drive, which I use almost exclusively for Movie and Video files (Panasonic) On my C: drive I have 128GB of My Pictures…
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What kind of cable do I need to connect a Toshiba MK1237GSX hard drive to another computer?

The connection on it seen in the picture seems different than the usual SATA connection and I can't find anything like it online. My old laptop won't turn on anymore and I was hoping to easily get a file I created after the last backup off the hard…
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Toshiba external hard disk 2 tb undetected by pc however blinking

Suddenly my TOSHIBA EXTERNAL HDD fall down a small distance later i tried to connect it to pc but it keeps blinking or flashing and the windows makes sound like recognizing usb but it’s not showing on my pc i tried all tools and programs to…
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What is the pinout of this Toshiba SATA drive and does an adapter exist?

I have a small Toshiba SATA drive from a laptop that uses a modified power connector. Does anyone know the proper pinout of this, whether it has a name for the connector that I can reference, and whether an adapter exists to regular SATA? The SATA…
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