[mgbgtgrimm]

AW! Man! I done the dumbest thing yesterday as I knocked over my water bottle on to my Toshiba Satellite M55 Laptop. I turned it upside down as quick as I could and started blasting with air cans and then later I tried to remove the top face of keyboard from bottom but had no luck. How ever I did open all the removable little doors and blast with air and pried the top from the bottom and blasted thru the crack. I then let it sit on the edge of my desktop desk (with elect heater under it) until this morning. Right now when I hit the ON button I can hear the dirve whirring and the message on the screen says "LOADING" and show a pic of an hour glass. the the screen turns sorta dark blue with a white line thru the middle and says "INSERT MEDIA DISK". If I put in a movie DVD it starts and shows the movie. I put the TOSHIBA Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD, but then I get the message that my hard disk will be wiped clean so it can re-install everything. I really don't want to do that if I don't have to.
I must say that I have been punching key boards since the first TIMEX and been thru COMMODORE, etc and this is the FIRST time I ever spilled anything on a keyboard. I'm 70 now and on 24 oxygen so I'm getting a lot more computer on time. I guess I got tangled with my O2 pipe cord or something.
So is there wnything I can do short of erasing my hard disk to get this thing to boot.
Greg in Warren MI

 

[johnpost]

congrats on still banging the keyboard. the timex and c64 were
great machines. you have history.

your laptop may not be dry enough. blowing air in may have
driven some water deeper.

laptops can be diassembled but they are tricky. friend had
a spouse douse her laptop. after doing all sorts of screws
he finds that just 2 screws and 2 catches was all that was
needed to release the keyboard on his model.

sorry i don't have specific advice on your machine.

i would get it thoroughly dry before trying to repower.
it is hard to not power up and try to fix being concerned
about the machine but i think you need to wait more
and try somemore machine drying out.

 

[schusterjo]

How To Clean Up After Spilling on Your Laptop

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

"Blot up the liquid that may have gotten on the removable media"

What is meant by 'remvable media' and 'external media'
Both are mentioned in the link above.

 

[schusterjo]

Definitions of removable media on the Web:

Definitions of External Media on the Web:

Basically anything you may have plugged into a hole on the computer such a usb connections, Wireless card slot ext...

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

Thanks for the info

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

OK chaps it is now up and running ( I did the hair dryer thing) and looks like I didn't lose anything so far. Now my BIG question is, IT has a disk drive that will also show movies DVD's, now I want to save all my data incase something happens again. I have some DVD-R 16X disks that say 2hr but don't say how much MB or GIG's I assume they hold a lot and can I use these to send all my data to. The Label also says Vieo, Photo, Data.

 

[johnpost]

OK chaps it is now up and running ( I did the hair dryer thing) and looks like I didn't lose anything so far. Now my BIG question is, IT has a disk drive that will also show movies DVD's, now I want to save all my data incase something happens again. I have some DVD-R 16X disks that say 2hr but don't say how much MB or GIG's I assume they hold a lot and can I use these to send all my data to. The Label also says Vieo, Photo, Data.

i don't know your machine and did not look anything up about it.

you have to see if the drive is a dvd drive (that only reads dvd
and cd disc) or a dvd reader/cd burner combo or a dvd burner.

if it is a dvd burner then you can backup your computer onto
those dvd-r disc (will hold about 4.4 GB of data).

if it is a dvd reader/cd burner combo drive then you need
cd blanks to burn to (about 700 MB)

if you have your computers networked and a dvd burner on
only one machine then you can copy files to the burner
machine and backup from there.

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

I am going to try to upload a listing of what my Toshiba laptop disk drive is. This is scanned from the Toshiba Satellite Resource Guide. All very confusing to me.

 

[JohnWill]

It writes both DVD+R and DVD-R media, as well as DVD+R dual-layer DVD's.

 

[erick295]

I am going to try to upload a listing of what my Toshiba laptop disk drive is. This is scanned from the Toshiba Satellite Resource Guide. All very confusing to me.

That lists two different drives, the first one is a DVD burner and the other isn't. Do you know which one your laptop has?

 

[JohnWill]

erick295, good point! I was asleep on the switch and just read the specifications for the first drive.

Download Nero Info Tool and post a screen shot of the Drive page, it'll tell you the capability of the installed drive.

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

OK I went and got Nero Info Tool and ran it. How do I save it to clipboard so I can paste it here. I have Printkey2000 installed and if I hit PrtSc button it will only send screen copy to printer.

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

I did manage to save some info. See if this helps.

 

[johnpost]

your computer shows

Nero InfoTool 4.03

Drive Information
------------------
Drive : MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ-840S
Type : DVD-RAM Recorder
Write CD-R : Yes
Write CD-RW : Yes
Write DVD-R : Yes
Write DVD-RW : Yes
Write DVD+R : Yes
Write DVD+RW : Yes
Write DVD+R DL : Yes
Write DVD-RAM : Yes

so you can use

the dvd-r media you have to copy files to

DVD-R, dvd+r, dvd-rw, dvd+rw, cd-r, cd-rw is all media you can burn to

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

I'm posting this via my desktop. The Toshiba Laptop will not wright to the DVD-R. No matter if it's a file or a folder I get the message "Windows has encountered a problem copying to disk. What would you like Windows to do?"
How am I supposed to know what I want Windows to do.
I have a movie in iTunes (CARS) that I bought from their web site and I want to save it to a disk that will play in my TV's DVD player befor this piece of crummy laptop crashes on me.
I have also posted a jpg of the ghraphic for the Nero Info Toll that I ran.

 

[johnpost]

to write to a dvd-R disc you need to use a burning program like
Nero or Roxio, see if you can identify something in your program
list

you can write a single session or multisession to discs. you need
to find what program you have and read its manual. different
uses of disc (audio,video,data) can all be done with the
procedures pertaining to them.

look at your dvd standalone player manual and see what type
of dvds it can use, some can read dvd-r, some dvd+r, some
both dvd-r and dvd+r and some neither.

to save data for computer use both dvd-r and dvd+r discs
work, you can write or read data on them

also for data on computer you can use dvd-rw and dvd+rw discs,
these act like giant floppy disks which are eraseable.

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

This appears to be the program that came with the Toshiba for saving to disk.

InterVideo(R) WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum for TOSHIBA
=========================================================================================

* WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum

With WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum you can edit digital video and burn to DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW,
or edit DVD-RAM/+RW VR format.


Important Information for use

1. When editing the digital video:

- Log in with Administrator rights to use WinDVD Creator.

- Make sure that your computer is running on AC Power when using WinDVD Creator.

- Operate the computer at Full Power. Do not use power-saving features.

- While you are editing DVD, you can display previews. However, if another application
is running, the preview might not display properly.

- WinDVD Creator cannot show video on the external monitor when in simultaneous mode.

- WinDVD Creator cannot edit or play copy protected content.

- Do not change Display Settings while using WinDVD Creator.

- Do not enter standby/hibernation mode while using WinDVD Creator.

- Do not operate WinDVD Creator immediately after turning on the computer. Please wait until
all Disc activity has stopped.

- When recording to a DV- camcorder, to ensure you capture all of your data,
let the camcorder record for a few seconds before you begin recording your actual data.

- CD recorder, JPEG functions, and Video CD functions are not supported in this version.

- While recording video to DVD or tape, please close all other programs.

- Do not run software like a screen saver because it can put a heavy load on the CPU.

- Do not run communication applications like modem or a LAN.

2. Before recording the video to DVD

- When you record to DVD disc, please use only discs recommended by the Drive manufacturer.

- Do not set the working drive to a slow device like a USB 1.1 hard disk drive or it will
fail to write DVD.

- Do not perform any of the following actions:
*Operate the computer for any other function, including using a mouse or TouchPad/cPad
or closing/opening the LCD panel.
*Bump or cause vibrattion to the computer.
*Use the Mode control button or Audio/Video control buttons to reproduce music or voice.
*Open the DVD drive.
*Install, remove or connect external devices, including the following: PC card, SD card,
USB devices, external display, i.LINK(TM) devices, optical digital devices.

- Please verify your disc after recording important data.

- DVD-R/+R/-RW disc cannot be written in VR format.

- WinDVD Creator cannot export to DVD-Audio, VideoCD, or miniDVD format.

- WinDVD Creator can write DVD-RAM/+RW in VR format, but the disc may only play on your
computer.

- When writing to DVD disc, WinDVD Creator requires 2GB or more disk space for each
one hour of video.

- When you make a fully recorded DVD, the chapter sequence may not play correctly.

3. About Disc Manager

- WinDVD Creator can edit one play list on a disc.

- WinDVD Creator might show a different a thumbnail than you previously set
in CE DVD-RAM recorder.

- Using the Disc Manager, you can edit DVD-VR format on DVD-RAM, DVD+VR format
on DVD+RW, and DVD-Video format on DVD-RW.

4. About recorded DVDs

- Some DVD-ROM drives for personal computers or other DVD players may not be able to
read DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW/-RAM disc.

- When playing your recorded disc on your computer, please use the WinDVD software
application.

- If you use an over-used rewritable disc, the full formatting might be locked.
Please use a brand new disc.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A trademark/registered trademark

 

[mgbgtgrimm]

This is what is listed in the iTunes readme file. iTunes has an icon in the lower right corner which is listed as being a cd-burner but when I click it to try to save the movie to the DVD-R I get the same error message about windows encountered a problem. What would you like windows to do.