angler Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 anyone familiar with replaceing hd in a Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop??? I have purchased a replacement but not sure how to access the bay. And once done do I use the Toshiba disks that came with the machine BEFORE the windows disks?? Tks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeler Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Step 2 here shows the screw to remove the hard drive cover. http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Tosh...1/tecraS1_1.htm Install Windows first. I'm guessing there's a bunch of drivers for your specific laptop on the other disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhurt Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Angler Did your laptop come with a recovery disk, or did you have no make one? Alot of factory built units are coming with a partition HD that has the units recovery disk, I know with my toshiba it came with the disks but that was about 2 years ago roughly. Not sure how to explain this properly but is the replacement HD formated? If not this will be needed to be done first. Once that then install windows then toshiba drivers (If you have a recovery disk it should have the windows os on it and all the drivers, not sure I haven't had to format or replace a HD in almost 6 years and my desktop was customed built by a co-worker) I also suggest after initial setup done to install virus/protection first then do windows updates and then whatever afterwards. I belive the tech at my work says this roughly takes anywhere from 2 to 4 hrs, after that you can install all yours apps. Anyways hope that helped some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angler Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 Assume the 'Toshiba Product Recover' Disks are the ones to boot from, then add Windows and other softeware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhurt Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Don't quto me on this but your os should be on that one, load it up and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angler Posted April 25, 2009 Author Share Posted April 25, 2009 Done!!! no probs - other than time. Up and running just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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