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UPDATE: After perhaps the most intense Googling I've ever done in my entire life, I managed to scrounge up the Toshiba CE Diagnostics I was looking for! They were in a zip file located at http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Toshi … ostics_1995.zip.

Because of how bloody difficult it was for me to find these, I have gone ahead and created a couple bootable disk images for future reference in case anyone else looking for these utilities manages to find this posting through Google or other searches. They are located here:

Filename
Toshiba CE Diagnostics.zip
File size
1.14 MiB
Downloads
652 downloads
File comment
Toshiba CE Diagnostics Disk Images, 720KB & 1.44MB
File license
Fair use/fair dealing exception

These are MS-DOS 5.0 boot disks with all of the files found in the DIAGS\LOW directory from the "Toshiba_diagnostics_1995" zip file linked above. You can use them to run detailed hardware diagnostics (more advanced than the "TEST", "TEST1" and "TEST3" utilities), perform a low-level hard drive format, and access the BIOS setup. These should work on most (if not all) vintage Toshiba "T-series" portable computers. The contents of both disk images are identical, the only difference is one is formatted for 720KB disks and the other for 1.44MB disks. Note that you MUST use the 720KB image with the T1000, T1100, T1200, T3100(/20) and T3200, as they do not support high-density disks. You can use RAWRITE or other similar disk imaging utilities to write the desired image to the disk.

The following is a complete listing of the disk contents. I am posting this to better help anyone who is attempting to locate these diagnostic utilities by searching for specific file names.

Volume Label: R3CE0
11/11/1991 05:00 AM 3,430 IO.SYS
11/11/1991 05:00 AM 37,394 MSDOS.SYS
11/11/1991 05:00 AM 47,845 COMMAND.COM
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 10 AUTOEXEC.BAT
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 1,250 AUTOTEST.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 93 CONFIG.DAT
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 23,298 DESKS4.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 19,298 DYNAS.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 16,384 ERRLOG.DAT
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 783 FDCLN.COM
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 3,779 FDCPY.COM
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 3,877 FDDMP.COM
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 2,950 FDFMT.COM
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 7,761 HDFAT.COM
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 2,733 HDFXT.COM
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 117 SETUP1.DOC
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 36,334 SETUP1.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 34,317 TESTCE.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 30,070 TESTCE1.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 34,199 TESTCE12.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 36,626 TESTCE16.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 56,409 TESTCE1L.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 49,512 TESTCE1S.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 54,622 TESTCE1X.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 37,026 TESTCE2.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 36,720 TESTCE20.EXE
12/09/1995 05:02 AM 33,978 TESTCE3.EXE
27 File(s) 640,815 bytes

I hope these come in handy for other fellow vintage Toshiba portable enthusiasts.

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Original message, subject "Need Toshiba TESTCE3 utility for T3100/T3200/T5100":

I am in need of the TESTCE3 utility for the Toshiba T3100/T3100/T5100, I cannot find it available for download anywhere. It's used to run more detailed hardware diagnostics beyond what the basic TEST3 utility performs. Would anyone happen to have a copy of this program that they could fire off my way, or an image of the entire Toshiba T3100 technician diagnostic disk?

Thank you.