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  #211  
Old March 22nd 18, 07:22 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Paul" wrote in message
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C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Macrium\ReflectDL\ReflectDL.log


I can't access that. It has a lock icon and says it's not accessible.
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Old March 22nd 18, 07:32 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Or just put "USB SATA" into ebay.com;
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...+SATA&_sacat=0

First item being an adapter cable for SATA to USB, cost $4.04.;
https://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-3-0-to-...kAAOSwEzxYTko5

The problem is that it might take some time for delivery, one could search
through the items looking for a quick delivery.
There is near top of ebay page, a button/switch that says; "Guaranteed 3
day delivery", I was unable check said because it asks for a ZIP code (I'm
in UK also).


Is this all I need? The one for $4.04? I plug the Toshiba's HD into it and
plug it into THIS healthy desktop and see what's on the HD? See of she spins
up? That sound easy enough for someone like myself who is technologically
challenged.
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  #213  
Old March 22nd 18, 08:03 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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HB wrote:
I can't see what use Linux is since the Toshiba runs it just fine from
the
DVD. What useful info do we get from that?


My earlier suggestion about using the linux fatdog was:

- acknowledge that fatdog sees your hdd icons in the lower left of the
desktop called sda1 and sda2
- R click such as sda1 and from the context menu select 'Check integrity'


This is what I see. There are no sda1 and sda2 on the left of the Fatdog
desktop to click on.
Where is sda1 and sda2 to click on?

https://postimg.org/gallery/38afbakly/


Then, finding that there is an operational/sound hdd there, use the Tosh
instructions to access the Tosh recovery wizard to replace the Windows
installation with the factory install from the Tosh recovery partition by
connecting to power source, and turning the computer on while holding down
the keyboard 0 (zero) key.


There are no Tosh' instructions when turning the Tosh on holding down the 0
key. Just a loud irritating sound. Nothing else.

- computer turned off
- turn on computer while holding the 0 (zero) key
- Tosh Recovery Wizard warning screen
- may have option to choose between 32 & 64 bit Win7

There is no recovery wizard when this is done.
..
This message shows the link to the Tosh instructions
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=152165126200


Thanks, but that doesn't work. All I got was a black screen with a dash in
the upper right and loud irritating sound.





  #214  
Old March 22nd 18, 08:37 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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HB wrote:
Found it - No image shows after typing in some kind of code.

https://postimg.org/gallery/38afbakly/


Your first command, it looks like you typed a capital S.


That was all low-case. I'll do it again.

The second command, you were supposed to type


You can't see it in the image? I can. ?!?!?! Let me do it yet again for the
5th time and see if it works.

smartctl -a /dev/sda (says Unable to detect device type) smartctl
requires a device type

.. Same error. It said to use smartctl -h so instead of smartctl -a
/dev/sda - and a whole bunch of info came up. All codes. Nothing useful
unless you're a tech and can understand the terminology.


One of your pictures shows an interesting thing. The hard drive
shows a single partition of sda1. Which would be a little
unusual for an OEM disk setup. Or for that matter, for a
Windows 7 retail install. An OEM-prepared drive would
have things like 14GB recovery partition, a System Reserved,
and a C: partition.


It has a C: and D: I assume the D: partition is where the info comes from
when you do a recovery or restore.

I take that to mean, Fatdog doesn't "see" a second partition,
meaning other partitions are damaged or the partitions are
no longer in the partition table.
Normally, I would try running "testdisk", but the interface
is pretty horrible, and one of the operations involves starting
a scan, stopping it, and *then* it presents a menu opportunity
to examine the files inside the partition.


A test disk through Linux?


But for just displaying the existence of files in a partition,
it's a great tool to have onboard.


Beyond my capabilities.

Even the smartctl
report of Reallocated Sectors "raw data value" would be of
some assistance.


A ddrescue scan through Linux? If there's something to type into the
command prompt in Linux let me know and I can try it.



  #215  
Old March 22nd 18, 08:55 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , HB writes:
This is the best the old camera can do.


https://postimg.org/gallery/38afbakly/



Doid that is it says, "Smartctl not found."


I _think_ I know why: unlike much of Windows, much of Linux is
case-sensitive. I think you typed smartctl with a capital S the first
time.


No, it's not capitolized. Look closer. All letters are the same height. And
I did it again tonight and got an error. Let me try it for the 6th time. Now
I can't find the post with the code to type in. Just as well because the 6th
and 7th time would be the same.


The second time would have been fine if you'd just pressed the return
(sometimes called enter) _key_ at the end of the line, rather than
actually typing r e t u r n! The error message that resulted says,
basically, that smartctl takes one parameter and you'd given it two, so it
didn't know what to do with the second one ("return"). Just type it
again - (a) with the cases exactly as specified (no capital s), and (b)
just _pressing_ return at the end (as you obviously do anyway). Then tell
us (or snap for us) what happens.


I pressed the Enter key.

You could also try fdisk with parameters and following p and q lines, as
in Java Jive's post. (Maybe another snap.)


What do I type in? Parameters? Iget all this tech stuff that means nothing
since I can't post it here. fdisk bring up more code stuff with questions.
It has nothing to do with what's on the Toshiba's HD. Someone who knows and
understands all these codes may find it helpful.


What does this have to do with Linux? This looks like a simpler OS than


Linux is as complex as Windows, and in the last decade or so has
approached it in graphical user interface. (Which is not bad considering
it's all free.) Though to get it to do things, you need to learn how to do
things in it, just as you did in Windows. (And despite what [some of] its
enthusiasts will claim, it _does_ still use the command prompt/terminal
more than Windows does - or, at least, you're more likely to get command
prompt instructions from most Linux enthusiasts than you are from most
Windows ones.)


That would take weeks if not months to learn. And it's something that bores
me to death. Good for someone retired with plenty of time on their hands who
likes to work with this kind of technology. All I want to do is boot this
Toshiba if possible and give it back to my daughters. The time I already
put into this I could have bought the girls a new laptop. I have no plans of
ever doing this for a living or a hobby.


No, any more than you'd see them while Windows is loading; you have to
run
things to generate them. And Paul was telling you where to get the
things
to run. But that's a bit down the line: if we're going to go the Linux
route, let's just get a terminal up, and run smartctl (which apparently
is
included in fatdog Linux) in it first, to see if there's any point in
continuing to work with this hard drive.


Then I need to SEE the exact text I need to type into the command prompt to
get the information you need.

See the images at the site posted above. Nothing like the image you
showed.

The third one _is_ similar: it shows a fatdog GUI, with a terminal window
open, and the results of you typing things into it - just not _quite_ the
right things (-:


OK... what is the EXACT text to type into the command prompt? I have to see
it as it has to appear in the window.



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  #216  
Old March 22nd 18, 09:02 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Paul" wrote in message
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Java Jive wrote:

The command

disktype /dev/sda


I typed this in the CP (command prompt) and it mentions a partition 1 and a
partition 2 NTFS system followed by bytes and numbers. It sees there are 2
partitions. Data read failed at position (list of numbers) Input/output
error. Error petition 3.

As far as I know there is no partition 3.


  #217  
Old March 22nd 18, 11:52 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:22:51 -0400, "HB" wrote:


"Paul" wrote in message
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C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Macrium\ReflectDL\ReflectDL.log


I can't access that. It has a lock icon and says it's not accessible.


Here is the info in Reflect.log on my PC. I opened it in Notepad. It
was created when I downloaded the latest version of Macrium Reflect
Free yesterday.

The file does not have a lock icon and is fully accessible.


Reflect.log - Notepad

Macrium Reflect download agent v7.1.2646
OS: v6.2.9200
Architectu x64
Loglevel: 0
Acquire features file
Http fetch features file
Download Type: Free
Download option: Reflect Installer Only
Component count: 1
Downloading component: Macrium Reflect installer
Download file: v7.1.2963_reflect_setup_free_x64.exe from set:installer
To:
C:\Users\Monty\Downloads\Macrium\v7.1.2963_reflect _setup_free_x64.exe
INFO: Http Status : 206
File system supports sparse files
Download successful
Component download complete
End of component download list
ReflectDL ending

  #218  
Old March 22nd 18, 12:19 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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In message , HB writes:

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , HB writes:



With the dock I've shown you, you plug the drive into one of the two slots
on top of the dock; there are connectors in the bottom of the slot which
mate with the connectors on the end of the drive. You then connect a USB
lead (which comes with the dock) from the back panel of the dock to a USB
port on a (working) PC.


OK, it will work with the Toshoiba's HD even though I don't know what kind
of drive it is?


If it's a SATA drive, i. e. has two small connectors with L-shaped
plastic guides around each, then yes. You don't need to know what make,
model, capacity, etc. it is - it will work with any SATA drive. (OK, I
suppose there _might_ be some it won't. Mine hasn't failed to work yet,
with several 2.5" SATA drives, one 3.5" [the one I use for backup], and
I think some EIDE drives.)

Next question is if the Toshiba's HD is still good - then
what? I still can't get past the "read disk error." There's still no way
to fix that problem, so a System Restore or Recovery wont be possible.
Buying a new HD and finding a MS W-7 64-bit disk that can be registered is,
from what I understand, no guarantee the Tosh' will boot.


I don't know where you've got that idea from; certainly a new HD and a
disc from which to load Windows onto it _will_ give you a working
Windows machine, if the disc can be registered ("activated" is I think
the term). Obviously we can't _guarantee_ it, but I don't think anyone
in this thread has suggested otherwise: we've established to a
_reasonable_ amount of certainty that the rest of the laptop seems OK -
certainly it booting as far as the GUI in fatdog Linux shows that the
processor, memory, graphics circuitry, and display seem to be working,
and the appearance of one of the icons on the Linux screen suggests that
the circuitry that accesses the hard disc is working - so we just don't
know if the hard disc itself is. (We haven't tested the sound, wifi, or
USB parts, but I have no reason to believe they aren't fine. They _can_
be tested from Linux if necessary, but someone else will have to tell
you how. I don't think it's necessary.)

With no help it's of no use to me. I never heard of one OS showing the
system info of another OS and fixing it, though it may be possible.


I believe it is, though I don't know enough about Linux to know the
details. Linux won't have the necessary files to repair a Windows
installation if actual Windows files are corrupted, but it can:
o interrogate the hardware of the drive to some extent
o repair things like the partition table and boot sector


Well typing that in the command prompt or whatever Linux called it did not
bring up the info shown in the online image.

See later.

The first is what we've been trying to do with fatdog's terminal and that
command that begins with s. If you enter that command, _exactly_ as Paul
specified it - so that you _don't_ get either "command not recognised" or
"wrong number of parameters" - you should get something that, when you
show it to us via a screenshot, will tell us _something_ more about the
hard drive than we know now. Similarly with the fdisk command and its
subsidiaries, as detailed by I think Java Jive.


https://postimg.org/gallery/38afbakly/ ---can you go there? Image of the
fatdog screen of what showed.

First time, you typed it with a capital S; second time, you added
"return" onto the end. What we wanted you to type was just

smartctl -a /dev/sda

.. I _think_ (you've posted a lot of posts!) you now _have_ done this -
could you add a screenshot of the results?
[]
I'm lost. There are 2 pages with 2 different looking electronic images. I
need BOTH of these items?

You take it out of the Toshiba, and put it into the housing (the ends of
the housing come off); there are two connectors on the back of the PCB you
can see at one end of the housing in the second picture which mate with
the two connectors on the drive. What you end up with looks very like your
Seagate drive, and is used in much the same way - you connect its USB lead
to a working PC (using two USB sockets at the PC end).


What is the PBC? I'm looking at those images still don't know which to buy

(Sorry, printed circuit board.)
shown on the 2 pages. I need both? I'm not following this since I never

No, you don't need both (see below).
saw anyone use anything like this. Where does that metal tab on the HD go?

(Not sure what you mean by that metal tab; a SATA drive just has the two
connectors. Anything else is just mounting arrangements. Post a picture
of the drive if you like, and we'll say what's what.)
The HD lays next to this thing with it's 2 cables plugged into it?

I've given you THREE ALTERNATIVE ways of connecting drives to a USB
port. IMO the best, and most expensive though even that is only
twentysomething dollars, is the dock. If you use that, it - the dock -
sits neatly on your desk, and you plug the drive into the top of it.
(With a cable from the back of the dock going to your working computer's
USB port.) The NEXT alternative is a "cable" with a power supply: with
that, things look less tidy: the HD does indeed lie on your desk with
two cables connected to it - a data one (red) that goes to the black
"plug" which connects to the USB, and a power one from the power supply.
The THIRD alternative - last time I was involved in buying one of these
it was less than two pounds - was a housing, that comes with USB cable,
and a small circuit board inside the housing: you put the drive inside
the housing, plug the circuit board into it, put the housing together
using the screws and screwdriver supplied, and end up with something
that looks like your existing Seagate external drive, other than
cosmetically (the ends are a different shape); I am sure that, in fact,
your Seagate unit has inside it just a normal 2.5" SATA drive, just
rather securely fixed so you haven't been able to get into it.

Or, you could use the ($4.04 was it?) or so cable another poster has
found; that basically does the same as the housing, other than that the
drive lays bare rather than being in a case. As long as the USB end has
_two_ USB plugs to ensure it gets enough power; it _might_ work with
only one, but it'd be a pity to discard the drive as not appearing to
work, just because it wasn't getting enough power.

All of these four do the same two things: (a) translate USB to and from
SATA, so you can read/write/control the drive from the working PC, and
(b) provide power to the drive, either from an external supply (that
comes with the kit) or from (ideally two) USB ports.
[]
No, the people here are NOT boring. It's all those pages and pages on this

That's good to hear!
problem I've read online. About OSI files and boot disks, and burners and

That's ISO - international standards organisation.
stopping W-10 from updating and her favorite game stopping since the

The W10 update danger has passed: about a year ago (IIRR), Microsoft
provided updates to Windows 7 that, unless you were very careful,
updated a W7 machine to W10. Two (main, anyway) outfits produced
utilities you could install to make sure this did not happen. But that's
over now, and it doesn't look likely that MS will do it again (though
you can never be sure), so it's (probably) no longer a worry.
updates, and the recent problem with OE6 not keeping passwords...... belive

That turned out to be a red herring - it wasn't OE6 (which won't run
under W7 anyway), it was an OE6 lookalike (from xsforall IIRR). And I
think even that got better (started remembering passwords again).
me, you guys are not boring compared to the reading I've done recently. :^)

[]
A new HD should be $70 or less, probably much less, especially if you go
for one of lower capacity than 1 TB. But only if you actually need one,
which we haven't established yet.


I'll order that "dock" tomorrow but would like to know if I also need the
thing on: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172256326228
If so I can order both.

Not if you order the dock. They are alternatives.

You might also consider getting a 2.5" SATA drive: it does rather look
as if the one in the Tosh is unwell, so would have to be replaced, but
even if it isn't, you could use it for keeping backup images on, as you
do the Seagate one.
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rather than "--". [Then good software will recognise it and not quote
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Is God willing to prevent evil but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"

- Epicurus -

I like it.

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  #219  
Old March 22nd 18, 12:32 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Mike Easter wrote:
Pasting from the terminal into the newsgroup message would actually
be better than his taking screenshots. SeaMonkey is pretty easy to
work/use -- his experience is with OE that he is posting with here in
XP.


Posting this from SM in Fatdog. In order to configure SM he would need to:

Menu/ Internet/ SeaMonkey mail/ (New account setup - Newsgroup account)

populate name, invalid newsgroup address, news server and its nickname,
then select that nickname in the L pane. In the R pane - view settings
for this account - server settings - always request authentication when
connecting to this server

Then use R panel newsgroup subscriptions and Manage newsgroup
subscriptions. Unlike conventional news agents and his OE, that is the
first time the password manager provides an opportunity to input the
user and pass for the agent and save them into the manager.

After the list loads he would be able to subscribe to this newsgroup and
copy and past something from the terminal.

Example; pasting the xscreenshot prompt

RATS!!

Fatdog's default terminals urxvt and xterm don't 'work right' (as I'm
accustomed) for copying text into the clipboard, so my bright idea about
pasting from the clipboard into a news message is a bomb. It would take
too much 'fixing' to be able to do that.

Until I figure out how to mitigate that problem simply, screenshots
would have to do.



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Old March 22nd 18, 12:40 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Patrick" wrote in message
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First item being an adapter cable for SATA to USB, cost $4.04.;

https://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-3-0-to-...ve-Adapter-Cab
le-UASP-SATA-to-USB3-0-Converter/183129692533?epid=2078467902&hash=item
2aa3615975:g:tckAAOSwEzxYTko5

The problem is that it might take some time for delivery, one could search
through the items looking for a quick delivery.
There is near top of ebay page, a button/switch that says; "Guaranteed 3
day delivery", I was unable check said because it asks for a ZIP code (I'm
in UK also).


Is this all I need? The one for $4.04? I plug the Toshiba's HD into it and
plug it into THIS healthy desktop and see what's on the HD? See of she spins
up? That sound easy enough for someone like myself who is technologically
challenged.


Yes. That does what the three alternatives I gave you (dock, "cable", or
housing) do.

My only slight concern about that one is that the USB end only has _one_
plug; this _might_ not deliver sufficient power. Here's one with two USB
plugs: https://www.ebay.com/itm/182543285419 (and that one's $2.34!)

It does the same as the housing, which has the advantage of putting the
drive in a protective (and quite smart) housing, but I can't find one
for less than $7.96 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/112652273779); odd, as I'm
sure I got exactly that model for less than two pounds around Christmas
2016.
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Old March 22nd 18, 12:49 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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In message , HB writes:
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You can't see it in the image? I can. ?!?!?! Let me do it yet again for the
5th time and see if it works.

smartctl -a /dev/sda (says Unable to detect device type) smartctl
requires a device type


Hmm. That doesn't sound too good: "Unable to detect device type" sounds
as if it wasn't able to talk to the drive properly. THOUGH SEE NEXT
POST.
[]
Windows 7 retail install. An OEM-prepared drive would
have things like 14GB recovery partition, a System Reserved,
and a C: partition.


It has a C: and D: I assume the D: partition is where the info comes from
when you do a recovery or restore.


If you mean you remember seeing that it had a D: partition when it was
working, then that would mean that someone - possibly the manufacturer -
had set it up with two user-accessible partitions; some enlightened
manufacturers do indeed do this. What you use them for is up to you.
Windows and most installed software is almost always on the C:
partition.

The recovery partition, if there is one, is usually not visible to the
user when normally using Windows; if the user can see C: and D:, and
there _is_ a recovery partition as well, then there will be _three_
partitions.

I take that to mean, Fatdog doesn't "see" a second partition,
meaning other partitions are damaged or the partitions are
no longer in the partition table.
Normally, I would try running "testdisk", but the interface
is pretty horrible, and one of the operations involves starting
a scan, stopping it, and *then* it presents a menu opportunity
to examine the files inside the partition.


A test disk through Linux?

No, he meant testdisk, a _command_ you can run (type) in Linux. But he
says it's not friendly, so probably not for us to consider for now.

But for just displaying the existence of files in a partition,
it's a great tool to have onboard.


Beyond my capabilities.

Even the smartctl
report of Reallocated Sectors "raw data value" would be of
some assistance.


A ddrescue scan through Linux? If there's something to type into the
command prompt in Linux let me know and I can try it.



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Old March 22nd 18, 01:03 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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In message , HB writes:

"Paul" wrote in message
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Java Jive wrote:

The command

disktype /dev/sda


I typed this in the CP (command prompt) and
. It sees there are 2


That is rather reassuring: it suggests that the drive electronics are
working, and can read the drive surface, at least as far as the
partition table, which is (as its name suggests) a table near the
beginning of the disc which lays out what partitions the rest of the
disc is divided into. If it couldn't read the disc surface, it wouldn't
be able to report that.

partitions. Data read failed at position (list of numbers) Input/output
error. Error petition 3.

As far as I know there is no partition 3.


As I said in the previous post, if, when it was working, you could see a
C: and a D: partition, then if there was also a hidden partition (which
there often is), there would indeed be three partitions.

Unfortunately, I don't _think_ we can assume that partition 3 is D:;
different things see the partitions in a different order. Would you mind
posting us a screenshot of where "it mentions a partition 1 and a
partition 2 NTFS system followed by bytes and numbers" (or copying it
out for us)? I know it's tedious, but that information would be very
useful.

(Oh, if you do do it with the camera, turn off [or put your finger over
if you can't turn off] the flash; it reflects off the screen in the shot
you have posted, and since the screen is backlit anyway it isn't needed
- will probably give a better picture anyway.)

A shot of the results of the
smartctl -a /dev/sda
result might also be useful - I know you're getting fed up of that one,
but _we_ have so far only seen the results of your first two attempts,
one of which had the capital S and the other the extra "return".
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Old March 22nd 18, 01:35 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Patrick[_9_]
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On 22/03/2018 06:04, HB wrote:
OK, it will work with the Toshoiba's HD even though I don't know what kind
of drive it is? Next question is if the Toshiba's HD is still good - then
what? I still can't get past the "read disk error." There's still no way
to fix that problem, so a System Restore or Recovery wont be possible.
Buying a new HD and finding a MS W-7 64-bit disk that can be registered is,
from what I understand, no guarantee the Tosh' will boot.


I don't know if it has allready been suggested (or tried), but looking
around I've seen suggestions to;
1. Turn the machine off.
2. Disconnect the power-supply and remove the battery.
3. Press the On button for 60 seconds.
4. Restore power-supply and try to boot.
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Old March 22nd 18, 02:25 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 22/03/2018 06:22, HB wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message
news

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Macrium\ReflectDL\ReflectDL.log


I can't access that. It has a lock icon and says it's not accessible.


Me too HB, however I found said file here;
C:\ProgramData\Macrium\ReflectDL\ReflectDL.log

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Old March 22nd 18, 03:03 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Mike Easter wrote:
Mike Easter wrote:
Mike Easter wrote:
I'm trying to figure out an uncomplicated way for HB to provide
screenshot from fatdog.


Aha. I'm getting control of this thing.


Without the terminal, PrtScr activates xscreenshot and the cursor
changes and the left mouse can be used to make the selection. Then
ctrl-shft-PrtScr terminates the xscreenshot and by default puts the
selection .png into the root directory. Using the filemanager on the
taskbar opens that directory and the .png can be dragged into the Spot
directory which is present by default. PrtScr is xscreensaver's default
hotkey.

SeaMonkey can be used to access postimg.org and paste in the .png and
can access the Spot directory by default.

That method eliminates having to give xcreenshot any commands from the
terminal which command options can be seen with xscreenshot -h. It
requires HB to use SM to open the Spot directory which is seen in the L
pane of its file manager to give the .png to postimg.org.


I went through this in FatDog64.

I used PrintScr key. It saved a screenshot.

i couldn't get SAMBA client to work, so I ended up
using mount -t cifs ... and I did actually manage to transfer
the screenshot. But later, when I attempted to umount cifs before
shutting down, things froze, and I had to use the power button
to turn off the PC. Then I had to reload my BIOS profile to get
things back to normal :-/

I could have used a USB key. But chose not to.

I decided screenshots would have to wait for another day.

Paul
 




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