hello,

i'm new to your board and so far i like what i see

i got a toshiba tecra 8000 form my uncle and 2 days later it stoped working/booting

i downloaded windows media player,aol and real player all in the first day.it was working fine and everything then the morning of the second day i turned it on and it was fine i played solitare and then turned it off and when i came back and turned it on i think it said "media test failure "then it shows the windows 2000 booting window then this comes up

"*** STOP:OxOOOOOO7B (Ox81446030,OxCOOOOO9C,OxOOOOOOOO,OxOOOOOOOO

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Please help me if you can

Thanks in advance
Daryl.

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
-Bill Clinton

If the hard drive is user removable try reseating it.

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M2

If reseating the HDD doesn't do the trick, you're likely going to have to reinstall the system. I hope your uncle also gave you the recovery CD's.

Sadly he didn't :(
and it doesn't have a cd rom drive.
I tried to make a boot disk from bootdisk.com and it won't let me make the disk.

Also you said reset my harddrive, how exactly do I do that?

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
-Bill Clinton

He said "reseat" your hard drive. That means remove it and put it back and make sure it's firmly seated.

You can order a recovery CD from Toshiba if your uncle can't get it to you. Not having a CD-ROM isn't a big deal. You can buy a USB CD-ROM cheap and use that.

You might want to hit Toshiba's website. It's been a while since I worked on their laptops but if it doesn't have a CD-ROM, it may very well have a recovery partition on the hard drive you can reinstall from. It would involve hitting F7 or something like that at bootup.