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...available. 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...BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COPIED OR TRANSFERRED. 2 Handling the cord on the hard disk or other storage devices as a precaution against possible failures, alteration, or loss of the data. Model: Satellite® A100/A105 Series Recordable and/or ReWritable Drive(s) and Associated Software Warranty The computer system you purchased may ...
...available. 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...BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COPIED OR TRANSFERRED. 2 Handling the cord on the hard disk or other storage devices as a precaution against possible failures, alteration, or loss of the data. Model: Satellite® A100/A105 Series Recordable and/or ReWritable Drive(s) and Associated Software Warranty The computer system you purchased may ...
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...because it takes time. If you receive via diskette, email, or download from or writing to learn more about Standby. However, if your hard disk suddenly fails, you have a separate backup copy. ❖ Use Error-checking and Disk Defragmenter regularly to avoid repetitive-motion injuries and... procedure. See "Using and configuring Standby mode" on a regular basis. It is easy to put off the computer if a drive indicator light indicates a drive is reading from the Internet. ❖ Take frequent breaks to conserve disk space and improve performance. ❖ Scan all the data...
...because it takes time. If you receive via diskette, email, or download from or writing to learn more about Standby. However, if your hard disk suddenly fails, you have a separate backup copy. ❖ Use Error-checking and Disk Defragmenter regularly to avoid repetitive-motion injuries and... procedure. See "Using and configuring Standby mode" on a regular basis. It is easy to put off the computer if a drive indicator light indicates a drive is reading from the Internet. ❖ Take frequent breaks to conserve disk space and improve performance. ❖ Scan all the data...
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... know the program's location, type the command line. For example, to see if it by clicking Start, then Search, and then following the on the hard disk drive or diskette/CD. TECHNICAL NOTE: Save your work on -screen instructions. Learning the Basics Saving your work 93 2 In the Run dialog box: ❖...
... know the program's location, type the command line. For example, to see if it by clicking Start, then Search, and then following the on the hard disk drive or diskette/CD. TECHNICAL NOTE: Save your work on -screen instructions. Learning the Basics Saving your work 93 2 In the Run dialog box: ❖...
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...DVD-ROM or multi-function drive. Using the CD-RW/DVD-ROM or multi-function drive Optical storage has become the preferred medium for information on restoring files. For these reasons, your hard disk, use a high-capacity backup system, such as an external hard drive. Make sure the backup ...version is available. Digital versatile discs (DVDs) provide a significant increase in the online Help or your hard disk may prefer to overwrite a file ...
...DVD-ROM or multi-function drive. Using the CD-RW/DVD-ROM or multi-function drive Optical storage has become the preferred medium for information on restoring files. For these reasons, your hard disk, use a high-capacity backup system, such as an external hard drive. Make sure the backup ...version is available. Digital versatile discs (DVDs) provide a significant increase in the online Help or your hard disk may prefer to overwrite a file ...
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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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...again ❖ Use Toshiba's power-saving options For more information on using the computer depends 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 ... alarm, display a message, both, or none. To change the default alarm settings: 1 Click Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, and then Toshiba Power Saver. 2 Click the Setup Action tab. 3 Configure the Alarm settings to suit your battery: ❖ Enable Standby or Hibernation, which saves ...
...again ❖ Use Toshiba's power-saving options For more information on using the computer depends 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 ... alarm, display a message, both, or none. To change the default alarm settings: 1 Click Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, and then Toshiba Power Saver. 2 Click the Setup Action tab. 3 Configure the Alarm settings to suit your battery: ❖ Enable Standby or Hibernation, which saves ...
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... must support Power-on security: 1 Open the Control Center and go to use the single logon feature. 179 Toshiba Utilities Fingerprint Authentication Utility Enabling Power-on Security Options for power-on and hard drive passwords with the fingerprint logon feature. Power-on Security. (This wizard is enabled automatically after the first user fingerprints...
... must support Power-on security: 1 Open the Control Center and go to use the single logon feature. 179 Toshiba Utilities Fingerprint Authentication Utility Enabling Power-on Security Options for power-on and hard drive passwords with the fingerprint logon feature. Power-on Security. (This wizard is enabled automatically after the first user fingerprints...
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... be lost . Try clicking your data even when you when the battery is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive. Your computer may not be in Standby mode and have a hard disk problem, you press a key nothing happens. The computer displays the WARNING RESUME FAILURE message....will not be able to start the computer. To clear the condition, press Ctrl, Alt, and Del simultaneously. Data stored in the computer's hard drive may be affected. 192 If Something Goes Wrong Problems when you turn on the computer The computer starts but it will not solve a resource ...
... be lost . Try clicking your data even when you when the battery is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive. Your computer may not be in Standby mode and have a hard disk problem, you press a key nothing happens. The computer displays the WARNING RESUME FAILURE message....will not be able to start the computer. To clear the condition, press Ctrl, Alt, and Del simultaneously. Data stored in the computer's hard drive may be affected. 192 If Something Goes Wrong Problems when you turn on the computer The computer starts but it will not solve a resource ...
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...Unless a hardware device has failed, problems usually occur when you experience any of time. If you change the system in the optional external diskette drive. To charge the battery, leave the computer plugged into a live wall outlet for long periods of these problems, use the options in Standby .... If pressing any key does not work routine, you can easily detect if the operating system is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive." 193 If Something Goes Wrong The Windows® operating system is not working If you are familiar with the desktop ...
...Unless a hardware device has failed, problems usually occur when you experience any of time. If you change the system in the optional external diskette drive. To charge the battery, leave the computer plugged into a live wall outlet for long periods of these problems, use the options in Standby .... If pressing any key does not work routine, you can easily detect if the operating system is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive." 193 If Something Goes Wrong The Windows® operating system is not working If you are familiar with the desktop ...
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Small bright dots appear on your PC. Disk drive problems Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually show up as sector errors. Over a period of time, and depending on your TFT display when you turn on the usage of the ... brightness of the TFT manufacturing technology. Sometimes a disk problem may appear on your screen display when you may appear on your display are identifying the drive by its correct name (A: or C:). 206 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict 4 Click OK. Make sure you are an intrinsic characteristic of ...
Small bright dots appear on your PC. Disk drive problems Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually show up as sector errors. Over a period of time, and depending on your TFT display when you turn on the usage of the ... brightness of the TFT manufacturing technology. Sometimes a disk problem may appear on your screen display when you may appear on your display are identifying the drive by its correct name (A: or C:). 206 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict 4 Click OK. Make sure you are an intrinsic characteristic of ...
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Run Disk Defragmenter. The drive's Properties box appears. NOTE This feature is not available for and attempt recovery of bad...repairs any damage it finds. To run Error-checking: 1 Click Start, then click My Computer. 2 Right-click the drive you have been using your computer for some time, your files may have become fragmented. If you want to Accessories and ...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. Your hard disk seems very slow. Error-checking tests and repairs the disk.
Run Disk Defragmenter. The drive's Properties box appears. NOTE This feature is not available for and attempt recovery of bad...repairs any damage it finds. To run Error-checking: 1 Click Start, then click My Computer. 2 Right-click the drive you have been using your computer for some time, your files may have become fragmented. If you want to Accessories and ...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. Your hard disk seems very slow. Error-checking tests and repairs the disk.
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...RW (read-only). If the problem is feedback between the microphone and the speakers. on the DVD-ROM drive itself. Try pressing Fn + Esc to see "You press the disc eject button, but others do not... the volume control. 210 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict Some discs run correctly but the drive tray does not slide out." Press the button on page 209. If you are using . This is...hardware configuration meets the program's needs. The disc will not come out of the drive when you are securely connected to the speakers and the speaker volume is disabled. Check the type ...
...RW (read-only). If the problem is feedback between the microphone and the speakers. on the DVD-ROM drive itself. Try pressing Fn + Esc to see "You press the disc eject button, but others do not... the volume control. 210 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict Some discs run correctly but the drive tray does not slide out." Press the button on page 209. If you are using . This is...hardware configuration meets the program's needs. The disc will not come out of the drive when you are securely connected to the speakers and the speaker volume is disabled. Check the type ...
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... software 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 to reformat your hard disk and start again, reloading all files to tape weekly and copying critical files to provide a fail...work frequently. See "Computing tips" on page 85 for instructions. If you have installed your own programs, you should not rely solely on the hard disk to a tape. ❖ Connect your computer to the office network and copy files to solve problems will improve as your work together. ...
... software 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 to reformat your hard disk and start again, reloading all files to tape weekly and copying critical files to provide a fail...work frequently. See "Computing tips" on page 85 for instructions. If you have installed your own programs, you should not rely solely on the hard disk to a tape. ❖ Connect your computer to the office network and copy files to solve problems will improve as your work together. ...
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... click View, Refresh) to prompt Windows to display them. 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. External CD and DVD writers are also widely available. If the files do not immediately... data to CDs with Windows XP For most of us, by clicking Start, then My Computer. 5 In this window into the computer's CD or DVD drive. 2 A menu of options will appear. This window will open for the blank CD.
... click View, Refresh) to prompt Windows to display them. 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. External CD and DVD writers are also widely available. If the files do not immediately... data to CDs with Windows XP For most of us, by clicking Start, then My Computer. 5 In this window into the computer's CD or DVD drive. 2 A menu of options will appear. This window will open for the blank CD.
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... settings to discover the locations of the files. 7 When you have selected, but you may easily verify this by placing the CD back into the drive, and viewing the list of the files you have finished copying files to the CD window, click File, Write these files to CD. 8 A CD Writing... the selected files to interrupt it. 10 Finally, click Finish. You may also wish to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on your hard disk drive, for example: ❖ E-mail files and settings-for Outlook, Outlook Express, or other data files that you do not find an application's data files...
... settings to discover the locations of the files. 7 When you have selected, but you may easily verify this by placing the CD back into the drive, and viewing the list of the files you have finished copying files to the CD window, click File, Write these files to CD. 8 A CD Writing... the selected files to interrupt it. 10 Finally, click Finish. You may also wish to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on your hard disk drive, for example: ❖ E-mail files and settings-for Outlook, Outlook Express, or other data files that you do not find an application's data files...
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... 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 back up your Favorites, or select a particular Favorites folder to back up all...
... 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 back up your Favorites, or select a particular Favorites folder to back up all...
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... General tips for installing hardware and software Here are a few tips 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 your web browser). ❖...
... General tips for installing hardware and software Here are a few tips 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 your web browser). ❖...
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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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... processing unit (CPU) with the other parts of signal changes per second (not necessarily the same as the video adapter, disk drives, and ports. Baud rate is similar, but not identical, to locate the startup files. Basic instructions, stored in readonly memory... (ROM), containing the information the computer needs in which a communication device, such as in the diskette drive before checking the hard disk. boot priority (startup sequence) - An electrical circuit that you start the computer. Applications include word processors, spreadsheets, and...
... processing unit (CPU) with the other parts of signal changes per second (not necessarily the same as the video adapter, disk drives, and ports. Baud rate is similar, but not identical, to locate the startup files. Basic instructions, stored in readonly memory... (ROM), containing the information the computer needs in which a communication device, such as in the diskette drive before checking the hard disk. boot priority (startup sequence) - An electrical circuit that you start the computer. Applications include word processors, spreadsheets, and...
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Compare disc. disk drive - diskette - See also file. double-click - A 3.5-inch diskette that stores magnetically encoded data. See also upload. 274 Glossary disk - See also diskette, hard disk. Your computer uses 3.5-inch diskettes. See also double-density diskette, high-density diskette. drag - Diskettes can hold ... or mouse button rapidly twice without moving the cursor to a printer. A round, flat piece of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. It rotates the disk at high speed past one or more read/write heads. A thin, flexible disk in the production of...
Compare disc. disk drive - diskette - See also file. double-click - A 3.5-inch diskette that stores magnetically encoded data. See also upload. 274 Glossary disk - See also diskette, hard disk. Your computer uses 3.5-inch diskettes. See also double-density diskette, high-density diskette. drag - Diskettes can hold ... or mouse button rapidly twice without moving the cursor to a printer. A round, flat piece of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. It rotates the disk at high speed past one or more read/write heads. A thin, flexible disk in the production of...