mindingulove
Experienced Member
When I get controller error it says press f1 For system disk or f2 for bios setup. But I still gotta wait for my 40mb drive arrive. I only have a 20 GB hard drive that probably wont work. But I bought this 40mb one
They are installed as part of Toshiba DOS.And about The Toshiba utilities for this laptop, where can I get those? Thx
Careful; the T3100 and T3100e use very different hard disks. But thanks for those links!And another Toshiba technical support bulletin that may be of use later:
TSB-0029-C: LOW LEVEL FORMAT ON HARD DISK DRIVES T1200, T3100, T3100/20, T3200 AND T5100
See: http://files.mpoli.fi/drivers_1/SET/TOSHIBA/README.TXTAnd about The Toshiba utilities for this laptop, where can I get those? Thx
Those files are also on toshiba website. I burned a msdos 6 diskette as iit still asks for system disk when controller fails. I must burn a Toshiba dos floppy instead of msdos as its the Toshiba system disk? Where can Toshiba dos be found? And what about test 3 and chad? I only need to burn it on a floppy and when asks for system disk put it on? Remember I get controller disk error, gotta wait for my new hard drive, so can't execute test3 from msodos. BTW, my new HD will ship with msdod 6, will Toshiba boot it as its not thoshiba dos?
Yeah, especially if you want to run DOS >4.x, which is what the latest T3100e came with AFAIK. Other than Chad and Test3 I don't know what other differences there are between generic MS-DOS and the corresponding Toshiba version; maybe an obscure keyboard or display driver?Toshiba DOS is normal MS DOS with a a couple of utilities thrown in. You don't need Toshiba DOS.
You can copy TEST3 on to a floppy disk and run it under MS DOS if you needed to.
What do you mean, "It works"? We need a little more detail.Addition, it only works when 20 mb is set on bios. The HDD is 40
Msdos 5 is installed and hard disk is jumped as slave.