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...POSSIBILITY THEREOF. IF YOUR DATA IS ALTERED OR LOST DUE TO ANY TROUBLE, FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE OR OTHER STORAGE DEVICES AND THE DATA CANNOT BE RECOVERED, TOSHIBA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE RESULTING THEREFROM. ... a precaution against possible failures, alteration, or loss of all set-up copies of the data. Model: Satellite® A100/A105 Series Recordable and/or ReWritable Drive(s) and Associated Software Warranty The computer system you must read and follow all the data stored on this product may not function...
...POSSIBILITY THEREOF. IF YOUR DATA IS ALTERED OR LOST DUE TO ANY TROUBLE, FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE OR OTHER STORAGE DEVICES AND THE DATA CANNOT BE RECOVERED, TOSHIBA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE RESULTING THEREFROM. ... a precaution against possible failures, alteration, or loss of all set-up copies of the data. Model: Satellite® A100/A105 Series Recordable and/or ReWritable Drive(s) and Associated Software Warranty The computer system you must read and follow all the data stored on this product may not function...
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...system records information, such as new icon positions may damage the disk, the drive, or both. ❖ Before turning off the computer, use the Turn off the computer if a drive indicator light indicates a drive is active. 86 Learning the Basics Computing tips ❖ Back up because ...it is reading from the Internet. ❖ Take frequent breaks to avoid repetitive-motion injuries and eyestrain. ❖ Do not turn off computer command or Standby command. It is easy to put off backing up your hard...
...system records information, such as new icon positions may damage the disk, the drive, or both. ❖ Before turning off the computer, use the Turn off the computer if a drive indicator light indicates a drive is active. 86 Learning the Basics Computing tips ❖ Back up because ...it is reading from the Internet. ❖ Take frequent breaks to avoid repetitive-motion injuries and eyestrain. ❖ Do not turn off computer command or Standby command. It is easy to put off backing up your hard...
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... a program in case the main battery discharges before you return to see if it by clicking Start, then Search, and then following the on the hard disk drive or diskette/CD. Saving your work Before you know the location, you are using the Standby command, in the Windows® folder, type just...
... a program in case the main battery discharges before you return to see if it by clicking Start, then Search, and then following the on the hard disk drive or diskette/CD. Saving your work Before you know the location, you are using the Standby command, in the Windows® folder, type just...
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... movies, multiple language tracks, digital surround sound, multiple camera angles, and interactive menus. For these reasons, your hard disk, use a high-capacity backup system, such as an external hard drive. Small files can be backed up all the files on your operating system documentation for software, music, and video...in the online Help or your hard disk may prefer to use the Restore page in the backup program. Learning the Basics Using the CD-RW/DVD-ROM or multi-function drive 97 HINT: Backing up on diskettes if an optional external diskette drive is the one you try to...
... movies, multiple language tracks, digital surround sound, multiple camera angles, and interactive menus. For these reasons, your hard disk, use a high-capacity backup system, such as an external hard drive. Small files can be backed up all the files on your operating system documentation for software, music, and video...in the online Help or your hard disk may prefer to use the Restore page in the backup program. Learning the Basics Using the CD-RW/DVD-ROM or multi-function drive 97 HINT: Backing up on diskettes if an optional external diskette drive is the one you try to...
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... monitor the remaining battery power. 115 Mobile Computing Monitoring main battery power Power button System Indicator Lights AC power light On/off light Battery light Hard disk drive light Bridge Media Adapter light (on certain models only) Sample power and battery light locations Determining remaining battery power NOTE Wait at least 16... turning on the computer before trying to check the battery's remaining capacity and perform its calculations. 1 Click Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, and then Toshiba Power Saver. 2 Click the Toshiba Power Saver icon.
... monitor the remaining battery power. 115 Mobile Computing Monitoring main battery power Power button System Indicator Lights AC power light On/off light Battery light Hard disk drive light Bridge Media Adapter light (on certain models only) Sample power and battery light locations Determining remaining battery power NOTE Wait at least 16... turning on the computer before trying to check the battery's remaining capacity and perform its calculations. 1 Click Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, and then Toshiba Power Saver. 2 Click the Toshiba Power Saver icon.
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... two alarms. Each alarm can be set to completely power down . For more information on using the computer depends on again ❖ Use Toshiba's power-saving options You can conserve power and extend the operating time of your battery: ❖ Enable Standby or Hibernation, which saves power ...on a number of factors, such as: ❖ How the computer is configured ❖ How much you use the hard disk, CD-RW/DVD-ROM or multi-function drive, diskette drives, or other optional devices ❖ Where you are working, since operating time decreases at low temperatures There are various ways...
... two alarms. Each alarm can be set to completely power down . For more information on using the computer depends on again ❖ Use Toshiba's power-saving options You can conserve power and extend the operating time of your battery: ❖ Enable Standby or Hibernation, which saves power ...on a number of factors, such as: ❖ How the computer is configured ❖ How much you use the hard disk, CD-RW/DVD-ROM or multi-function drive, diskette drives, or other optional devices ❖ Where you are working, since operating time decreases at low temperatures There are various ways...
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... automatically after the first user fingerprints are displayed only if your system supports power-on security.) 2 Check the option Replace the power-on and hard drive passwords with the fingerprint logon feature. To disable/enable power-on security: 1 Open the Control Center and go to use the single logon feature...computer supports this option to Settings - To enable power-on security single logon: 1 Open the Control Center and go to be accessible.) 179 Toshiba Utilities Fingerprint Authentication Utility Enabling Power-on Security Options for power-on security are enrolled.
... automatically after the first user fingerprints are displayed only if your system supports power-on security.) 2 Check the option Replace the power-on and hard drive passwords with the fingerprint logon feature. To disable/enable power-on security: 1 Open the Control Center and go to use the single logon feature...computer supports this option to Settings - To enable power-on security single logon: 1 Open the Control Center and go to be accessible.) 179 Toshiba Utilities Fingerprint Authentication Utility Enabling Power-on Security Options for power-on security are enrolled.
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...you will not be configured to warn you when the battery is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive. Verify that has not been saved will be lost . Your computer may be ...in Standby mode and the battery has discharged. Your computer normally loads the operating system from the hard disk. When this happens turning the power on page 116. The computer is running , but ...up device. Data stored in the computer's memory has been lost . Data stored in the computer's hard drive may get the computer running low see "What to do when the main battery runs low" on ...
...you will not be configured to warn you when the battery is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive. Verify that has not been saved will be lost . Your computer may be ...in Standby mode and the battery has discharged. Your computer normally loads the operating system from the hard disk. When this happens turning the power on page 116. The computer is running , but ...up device. Data stored in the computer's memory has been lost . Data stored in the computer's hard drive may get the computer running low see "What to do when the main battery runs low" on ...
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... screen does not look right. For more information see "The computer is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive." Unless a hardware device has failed, problems usually occur when you change the system in the drive, remove it is recommended that you experience any key to restart the computer. 193... XP message appears. ❖ The operating system takes a long time to fix the problem. Make sure there is no diskette in the optional external diskette drive.
... screen does not look right. For more information see "The computer is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive." Unless a hardware device has failed, problems usually occur when you change the system in the drive, remove it is recommended that you experience any key to restart the computer. 193... XP message appears. ❖ The operating system takes a long time to fix the problem. Make sure there is no diskette in the optional external diskette drive.
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...of thin-film transistors (TFT) and is also an intrinsic characteristic of 800 x 600 or higher. Typical disk problems are: You are identifying the drive by its correct name (A: or C:). Small bright dots may cause one or more files to appear to increase the brightness of the TFT manufacturing ...trouble accessing a disk, or one or more files appear to be able to have garbage in Internal/External mode, and not simultaneous mode. Disk drive problems Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually show up as sector errors. Make sure you turn on battery power.
...of thin-film transistors (TFT) and is also an intrinsic characteristic of 800 x 600 or higher. Typical disk problems are: You are identifying the drive by its correct name (A: or C:). Small bright dots may cause one or more files to appear to increase the brightness of the TFT manufacturing ...trouble accessing a disk, or one or more files appear to be able to have garbage in Internal/External mode, and not simultaneous mode. Disk drive problems Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually show up as sector errors. Make sure you turn on battery power.
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...The Check Disk All Apps box appears. 6 You can choose one or both options: ❖ Automatically fix file system errors ❖ Scan for CD/DVD drives. 4 Click the Tools tab. 5 Click the Check now button. To do this, click Start, then click All Programs, point to check. 3 On the...and System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter. NOTE This feature is not available for and attempt recovery of bad sectors 7 Click Start. Your hard disk seems very slow. The drive's Properties box appears. Run Disk Defragmenter. To run Error-checking: 1 Click Start, then click My Computer. 2 Right-click the...
...The Check Disk All Apps box appears. 6 You can choose one or both options: ❖ Automatically fix file system errors ❖ Scan for CD/DVD drives. 4 Click the Tools tab. 5 Click the Check now button. To do this, click Start, then click All Programs, point to check. 3 On the...and System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter. NOTE This feature is not available for and attempt recovery of bad sectors 7 Click Start. Your hard disk seems very slow. The drive's Properties box appears. Run Disk Defragmenter. To run Error-checking: 1 Click Start, then click My Computer. 2 Right-click the...
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... you click the eject button on page 209. The disc will not come out of devices, such as a removable hard disk, additional memory, or a pager. Press the button on the DVD-ROM drive itself. This is with a data CD or DVD, refer to see "You press the disc eject button, but ... when input from the computer. If the problem is feedback between the microphone and the speakers. Sound system problems You do not. The DVD-ROM drive supports the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) formats DVDROM, DVD-R (read-only), plus CD-ROM, CD-R (readonly), and CD-RW (read-only). Adjust the volume ...
... you click the eject button on page 209. The disc will not come out of devices, such as a removable hard disk, additional memory, or a pager. Press the button on the DVD-ROM drive itself. This is with a data CD or DVD, refer to see "You press the disc eject button, but ... when input from the computer. If the problem is feedback between the microphone and the speakers. Sound system problems You do not. The DVD-ROM drive supports the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) formats DVDROM, DVD-R (read-only), plus CD-ROM, CD-R (readonly), and CD-RW (read-only). Adjust the volume ...
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... your computer to the office network and copy files to copy everything on this : ❖ Copy files to diskette. ❖ Connect a tape drive to the system and use a combination of these programs as well as you experience a problem with the computer. Some people use specialized software to ... work frequently. See "Computing tips" on a daily basis. Save your network partition. Your ability to solve problems will improve as your hard disk and start again, reloading all files to tape weekly and copying critical files to close a program and lose unsaved changes. If something...
... your computer to the office network and copy files to copy everything on this : ❖ Copy files to diskette. ❖ Connect a tape drive to the system and use a combination of these programs as well as you experience a problem with the computer. Some people use specialized software to ... work frequently. See "Computing tips" on a daily basis. Save your network partition. Your ability to solve problems will improve as your hard disk and start again, reloading all files to tape weekly and copying critical files to close a program and lose unsaved changes. If something...
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... prompt Windows to CDs, a relatively high-capacity storage media. Most of the CD and DVD drives built into recent Toshiba portable computer models can make the data inaccessible or even destroy it , and stored on its hard disk drive. Since problems with either hardware or software can write to (or 'burn') as well as... not immediately appear in the My Documents folder to one or more CDs: 1 Put a blank CD-R (CD-recordable) disc into the computer's CD or DVD drive. 2 A menu of options will open for the blank CD.
... prompt Windows to CDs, a relatively high-capacity storage media. Most of the CD and DVD drives built into recent Toshiba portable computer models can make the data inaccessible or even destroy it , and stored on its hard disk drive. Since problems with either hardware or software can write to (or 'burn') as well as... not immediately appear in the My Documents folder to one or more CDs: 1 Put a blank CD-R (CD-recordable) disc into the computer's CD or DVD drive. 2 A menu of options will open for the blank CD.
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... example) for detailed instructions. ❖ Newsgroup files and settings-for Outlook Express, or other tasks during this by placing the CD back into the drive, and viewing the list of files. If you do not find an application's data files in the My Documents folder. The CD will now write... may also wish to use the computer for the CD. It is best not to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on your hard disk drive, for example: ❖ E-mail files and settings-for detailed instructions. ❖ Other data files. 226 If Something Goes Wrong Develop good computing ...
... example) for detailed instructions. ❖ Newsgroup files and settings-for Outlook Express, or other tasks during this by placing the CD back into the drive, and viewing the list of files. If you do not find an application's data files in the My Documents folder. The CD will now write... may also wish to use the computer for the CD. It is best not to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on your hard disk drive, for example: ❖ E-mail files and settings-for detailed instructions. ❖ Other data files. 226 If Something Goes Wrong Develop good computing ...
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.... 2 The Import/Export Wizard will appear, with the toplevel Favorites folder selected (highlighted). Click Next. 3 Click Export Favorites, Next. (To restore the Favorites to the hard disk drive later you would select Import Favorites from the My Documents folder to CDs.
.... 2 The Import/Export Wizard will appear, with the toplevel Favorites folder selected (highlighted). Click Next. 3 Click Export Favorites, Next. (To restore the Favorites to the hard disk drive later you would select Import Favorites from the My Documents folder to CDs.
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... follow directions carefully! Before installing anything, use the System Restore utility to help insure safe and easy installation of new hardware (printers, pointing devices, external hard drives, DVD writers, scanners, etc.) and software (applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, or utility software such as special toolbars for installing hardware and software...
... follow directions carefully! Before installing anything, use the System Restore utility to help insure safe and easy installation of new hardware (printers, pointing devices, external hard drives, DVD writers, scanners, etc.) and software (applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, or utility software such as special toolbars for installing hardware and software...
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...) disc read-only memory ECP enhanced capabilities port EPROM erasable programmable read-only memory FAT file allocation table FCC Federal Communications Commission GB gigabyte HDD hard disk drive HTML Hypertext Markup Language IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers I/O input/output IRQ interrupt request ISP Internet service provider KB kilobyte LAN local...
...) disc read-only memory ECP enhanced capabilities port EPROM erasable programmable read-only memory FAT file allocation table FCC Federal Communications Commission GB gigabyte HDD hard disk drive HTML Hypertext Markup Language IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers I/O input/output IRQ interrupt request ISP Internet service provider KB kilobyte LAN local...
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... with other parts of the computer, such as a printer or modem, transmits information. Short for the startup files in the diskette drive before checking the hard disk. bits per second. A way of measuring the speed at which a communication device, such as the video adapter, disk... drives, and ports. The basic measure used by its disk drives to locate the startup files. See also baud rate. boot disk - Applications include word processors,...
... with other parts of the computer, such as a printer or modem, transmits information. Short for the startup files in the diskette drive before checking the hard disk. bits per second. A way of measuring the speed at which a communication device, such as the video adapter, disk... drives, and ports. The basic measure used by its disk drives to locate the startup files. See also baud rate. boot disk - Applications include word processors,...
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disk drive - Any file created with an application and, if saved to disk, given a name ...in two sizes: 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch. See also upload. driver - DVD - 274 Glossary disk - See also diskette, hard disk. See also file. A 3.5-inch diskette that can be removed from the computer to the primary TouchPad control button or left... twice without moving the cursor to 720 KB of information (half the capacity of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. See also diskette, high-density diskette. An individual digital versatile (or video) disc. See also double-density ...
disk drive - Any file created with an application and, if saved to disk, given a name ...in two sizes: 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch. See also upload. driver - DVD - 274 Glossary disk - See also diskette, hard disk. See also file. A 3.5-inch diskette that can be removed from the computer to the primary TouchPad control button or left... twice without moving the cursor to 720 KB of information (half the capacity of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. See also diskette, high-density diskette. An individual digital versatile (or video) disc. See also double-density ...