Question New project laptop for fun... if you are a masochist.

Nov 19, 2023
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My goal is to resurrect an old Toshiba 445CDT from the last century. It was my brothers and it has been sitting for, well, decades.
It powers up and I can get into the BIOS.. It completes the memory check. But for the life of me I cannot get it to see the HDD. I even spent a few bucks on a new/used drive but still no luck.

Any hints on what to do to get it running? My goal is to maybe get a version of Linux on it if Windows refuses to load.

First I need to get the HDD running though.

Thanks.