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    Question Toshiba Laptops Don't See Hard Drives..

    Thanks.. I'll check out that Bios reset in Toshiba's webpage, but I think I'd need the hard drive and OS to be working to reset the Bios thus.. I somehow need to get these lovely computers to detect a hard drive... I tried for a couple hours today with a few of them, doing all of you good...
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    Question Toshiba Laptops Don't See Hard Drives..

    I think I did, but I'm gonna try it on a few of these notebooks this morning.. Silly me, I haven't tried pulling the Bios battery yet.. I'll do that too... I noticed that on some computers if you shut them off and on about three times it resets something that erases irritating boot...
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    Question Toshiba Laptops Don't See Hard Drives..

    No passwords indicated anywhere in Bios settings... Can an expert change a setting under a password, then leave it functional after clearing the password? This mess is acting like a super hack.. Is there a program that when installed, damages the Bios..? I've heard of Bios viruses that kill a...
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    Question Toshiba Laptops Don't See Hard Drives..

    They are Toshiba: Z50-A, and A50-A, and R950.. All skillfully disabled... I tried all the changing settings in Bios as instructed in several YouTube videos.. I tried several notebook hard drives, blanks and DVD, and some with LinuxMint 19, or Scientific Linux pre-installed.. I have a stack of...
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    Question Toshiba Laptops Don't See Hard Drives..

    Toshiba Laptops Don't See Hard Drives.. A skilled computer tech somehow disabled a bunch of notebooks for an institution to make the motherboards not register a hard drive.. I have messed with all the suggested bios settings, but to no avail.. What is the sneakiest thing a computer expert can...