First post, by airbone-x
Hello,
I have toshiba 220cs in very good and original condition with win95, it is fitted with 1,4GB toshiba HDD. I have problems with this hard drive - sometimes, but quite often, it does not want to boot... I only hear sound like attempt to read, and it does it 3x and then freezes for some time and then gives message about missing system disk. Sometimes it boots on first time or any other of these 2 more attempts. When it does not boot, also in bios harddrive is not visible like it was not fitted. Another thing that tells me soomething is not ok with this HD is that when computer runs and there is no reading/writing to disc, so it is in standby state, every like 20-30 seconds it makes click sound like it was parking heads.... It does it also when connected via adapter to modern pc. Yesterday it could not boot as well, so I have opened it and saw that head was not in parking position but was on the platter, so I moved it to parked position. Machine then booted fine on first attempt, but I think nothing really changed and it will start to fail boot again.
Any ideas if this is dying HDD and must be replaced or is there anything else what could be done?
I have heard that there is something specific on these satellite toshiba hard drives and is not easy to replace it with other brand due to some different pinout? is that true?
Could someone advice if is possible to exchange this drive with CF and make 1:1 clone on CF card? If so, what is the best software to clone? I do not mind if it is paid. I do not want to loose win95 installation because recovery application is missing from windows (maybe someone already backed up the computer when it was new, since this recovery system can be used only once).
Thank you very much for replies.