You can access the hard drive from the bottom of the laptop.
If you turn the laptop upside down, you'll find the hard drive door under the Toshiba sticker with the laptop serial number. Remove two screws from the hard drive cover and then remove the cover. Slide the hard drive to the right and remove it.
Transfer the hard drive bracket to a new hard drive.
The price of a Toshiba portable hard drive depends largely on the size of the drive. The larger the drive the more the cost. However, the cheapest Toshiba portable hard drive in the US, brand new is $50 for a 160 GB drive.
The Toshiba A15-S157 uses a standard 2.5" 40 GB EIDE / PATA hard drive.
It could possibly be that your hard drive got fried somehow. The only time that I have ever run into a problem like that is whenever I was stupidly messing around on my computer during a lightning storm, and an overload of power surged through my computer and fried my hard drive. All I did was replace the hard drive and install my Operating System and I was working on it again. I don't have any idea on how to replace a hard drive in a laptop, but my suggestion to you would be to call Toshiba and see if they can help you any more.
The largest hard drive that one can find for external hard drives on Toshiba's website is 3 terabytes. One can also find 3 terabyte internal hard drives on their website as well.
Seagate is a top branded name. It is better than toshiba.
The Ipod 5th generation 60GB and 80GB. One can replace the hard drive with a 240GB Toshiba.
Toshiba external hard drives come in range of prices, depending on your requirements. A 500 GB portable hard drive will cost approximately å£60, whereas a 1000 GB portable hard drive will cost you about å£75.
Presumably by size you mean capacity? The BIOS determines how much hard drive memory your computer can address so if you are upgrading your hard drive I suggest you check Toshiba's website and download the latest BIOS for your machine.
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Toshiba hard drives, as are most USB 2 drives, are fully compatible with Mac OS X. (See links below)
The Toshiba A10-S127 Satellite laptop can take up to at least a 100Gb hard drive as per toshiba's upgrade page. Here is the link to it: http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/afin.to You just have to fill in your model number and it will show you the results.
Some manufacturers making hards for xbox. Seagate and toshiba are examples.