Floppy drives are, by and large, compatible. However, in your case, since yours in internal - meaning that dimensions, mounting, connector positioning, color of the drive bezel, etc., are absolutely...

LOL.. Dunno. The hard disk controller functions inside these systems are ... minimal - if anything's gonna fail, it oughta be coming from the circuitry on the hard drive itself. There's no HDD...

Reckon so ... I'd always stick it into another laptop just to make sure - 'cause when a hard drive goes down there's either a lot of gigabytes to recover, or a lotta gigabytes of software and crap...

That was quick. The next thing I'd try would be to remove the CD/DVD module, but keep the hard drive module installed, and start the machine - just to make sure that the hard drive error ain't...

System ain't seeing your hard drive. Since it is a removable module (on the left side of your system, usually held in by one, or two screws at the bottom of your machine), why not remove it,...

Actually, when I stuck the drives with XP back into their rightful systems, they're okay - took a while during their first load, but subsequent reboots were okay. You mean to tell me that if your...

Toshiba's BIOS and Toshiba's firmware on its hard drives (all 5 have Toshiba drives) are causing the problem here. None of these systems have any problems whatsoever seeing non-Toshiba hard drives...

If the system sees the drive, then it's not the device driver. I'm sure you've tried different CDs and gotten the same results, right? Could be just a simple, straightforward case of a bad drive. ...

Okay... my problem got resolved, and I found out why. Nasty nasty... if anyone's interested, just ask and I'll post further notes on this chapter. Otherwise, it'll be a secret between me, and...

Maybe someone has an idea on this one:

I own several Toshiba 2805 laptops - ranging from the S201 model (Celeron 650) to the faster S302 (PIII 750) models. They're working perfectly and I'm...