Toshiba satellite c850 laptop no bootable device please restart system

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it could turn into another one of these



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NiftyDigits

Bollotom wrote: »

I'm just conjuring up pictures of being taken away costing more than £100. There's the cost of the new Win8 licence on top of the cost of the drive and labour; and I've always been a bit discouraged about anyone wanting to take away my computer for maintenance. Bit like the car mechanic sucking in his breath and kicking the tyres. Make sure you get them to phone you with the final cost before they do any work.

No need for a new Windows 8 licence. But does the 'firm' know that?

£45 to recover what exactly?

bagby

NiftyDigits wrote: »

That is poor. Worse case scenario for you was a new HDD for £50 or less.

Have you tried this?

I've done everything on the you tube video now message is:
Intel undid pxe-2.1 (build 083 copyright c 1997 -2000 intel corp

This product is covered by on or more of following patents us5.307,459. Us5,434 872. Us5. 732.094. Us6,570.884. Us6.115.776 and us6.327.625

Realtek pcIe fe family controller series v1.27 (10/31/11) pxe-e61 media test failure check cable

Pxe-mof exiting pxe rom. No bootable device--insert boot disk and press any key.

Any more help please

bagby

If I was to buy a hard disk and put it in myself. Where do I get the software?? From so it's got win8 etc to restore back to what it was. I've just replaced a broken screen on my phone today via you tube so may be this computer lark is doable with your help.

NiftyDigits

I'll get it to you after I eat....I'm hungry.

bagby

Hi just noticed there's another broken toshiba satellite. I've been helped on here via pm but an update on my situation is that we ascertained hard drive broken so have replaced that. Got a download of win 8 but not enough memory on desktop to download it all onto disk. Just given details of system and desktop information to see if we can do anything to complete the download before I go out and buy a new win 8. Very helpful advice on here.

bagby

NiftyDigits wrote: »

That is poor. Worse case scenario for you was a new HDD for £50 or less.

Have you tried this?

To ND. Your in box is full

Jivesinger

bagby wrote: »

Hi just noticed there's another broken toshiba satellite. I've been helped by nifty digits via pm but an update on my situation is that we ascertained hard drive broken so have replaced that. Got a download of win 8 but not enough memory on desktop to download it all onto disk. Just given details of system and desktop information to see if we can do anything to complete the download before I go out and buy a new win 8. Very helpful advice on here.

You might find that the Toshiba Recovery Media disks are cheaper than ordering a new copy of Windows 8.
https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/

Edit: Another thought. Could you get a USB device to hold the download? If you don't have one already, an external disk drive could do it and be a good investment to make backups later once you've got it all working again. Or a memory stick?

bagby

Jivesinger wrote: »

You might find that the Toshiba Recovery Media disks are cheaper than ordering a new copy of Windows 8.
https://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/

Edit: Another thought. Could you get a USB device to hold the download? If you don't have one already, an external disk drive could do it and be a good investment to make backups later once you've got it all working again. Or a memory stick?

We have an external hard drive is that the same? Also memory stick but how do they work?

Jivesinger

bagby wrote: »

We have an external hard drive is that the same? Also memory stick but how do they work?

Yes that was what I was thinking of.

I was assuming that if you couldn't download due to lack of free disk space on the desktop, you may be able to download it to an external drive instead if that had enough free space.

However I may have been mistaken, because (depending on how you are downloading Windows 8) it might not give the option to choose where you download it to.

So that may not be of any help - apologies.