Hi Guys,

I am trying to insert a replacement hard drive from my toshiba a65-s1762. My old drive was going out and I stuck the new drive in and booted up but the bios is not seeing it. My xp disk was in the drive however and started SETUP. The first time, it did not see it either, rebooted, when back to bios, tried to detect, nothing, RESTARTED setup and it found the device. partioned, formated, and files copied, but then after reboot it just goes back to setup since the bios cannot see the drive. any ideas?

any ideas... thanks!
johnIs the drive the same capacity as the old one? if its larger you may run into problems. typical barriers are 32 and 120GB. Check that the pins on the drive have not been bent. both drives are the same capacity, same MODEL, everything. no bent pins either. could their be a problem on the board itself if the other drive is still working, just going out? Sounds like you have a bad disk controller. Unfortunately it is built in and can not be replaced.) You may be able to still use the computer if it supports booting from USB though, just use an external hard drive. Won't be as portable, but it should work. Actually since laptops are different beasts you may need to use the Toshiba recovery CD to GET the HDD recognised...you did say the PARTITION and format were successful, correct ? ?