Removing hard drive from Satellite P10 or P15 laptop
This guide will show you how to access and remove the hard drive from a Toshiba Satellite P10 or P15 laptop. It is not difficult if you know where to look for the hard drive. LOL.
OK, here it is. The hard drive is located right under the CD/DVD drive. The optical drive is secured by one screw. Remove this screw (shown on the step 2) and carefully pull the CD/DVD drive from the laptop. The hard drive is located right under the metal plate.
When you replace/upgrade the hard drive, do not forget to transfer the shielding (foil) from the old hard drive to the new one.
Here’s my second tutorial for this model. This one will explain how to remove and clean the heatsink. Your laptop shuts down without any reason? The laptop runs hot and is much slower then before? Check the heatsink, most likely it’s clogged with dust causing laptop overheating.
Finally, my third tutorial for Satellite P10 and P15 series laptop. This tutorial explains how to take the whole thing apart and remove the motherboard.
I would recommend to read through all three tutorials if you decide to fix laptop yourself.
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October 16th, 2007 at 12:17 am
how do i remove the dvd drive? and what dvd drives are compatible with this laptop(p15-s420)?
October 24th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
John,
You should be able to use the following drives with your laptop:
DVD/CD-RW drives:
K000012220, K000012230, K000004190, K000005850, K000011300, K000011600.
DVD multi recorders:
K000005870, K000023180, K000013700, K000013710.
If you are buying a new drive, make sure it comes with the front plate because some front plates are not interchangeable.
You can find good deals on new and used DVD drives here.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
How do I reinstall the system on the new hard drive? The BIOS does not seem to recognize the system reinstall disc in the DVD-RAM drive.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:12 am
How easy is it to replace the LCD screen on a P10?
Also, do I need to get exactly the right part number, or would, for example, a P30 screen fit equally well?
Thanks.
October 13th, 2008 at 3:04 am
How I easy change DC Power Jack for Toshiba Satelite P15-S420?
Do you have any picture how do that?
Thanks.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Hello! First hanks for all this very helpful instructions. I have a Toshiba Satellite P15 I have followed your instructions on how to Clean heatsink and fix laptop overheating problem. Works great! However, I see you instructions how to fix the jack battery charger but I cant find the instructions on how to put a part the motherboard to the stage where your instructions start. Can you help me put a part a Toshiba Satellite P15 and fix the failed power jack??????? Help!!!!! Help
December 7th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hi. I have a toshiba lap top P10-304 which is dead (no leds on). In the maintenance manual if refers to checking the system board fuses. But I cannot find any. Do you know were they are on the board ?
thanks. Walter
December 7th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Walter,
Did you test the AC adapter?
I think the fuse is located somewhere close to the power jack.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Hi, I have just cleaned the heat sink and the pcb of my toshiba P10 with air duster. after putting them back i tested it. the power light is on but the lcd screen is gone. Have I done something wrong? I tried connecting it to my TV but it is not working. Please Help!!!!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am
you instructions are great ! Thanks, however, they stop a the removing the hard drive. I need to get access to the power line my proble is a loose connection can you give me directions how to get to this area????
April 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
jay,
Did you remove the heat sink from the laptop for cleaning? If you did, it’s possible you pulled the CPU from the socket. Make sure the CPU is seated correctly. Remove the heat sink again, unlock the socket, reseat the CPU and lock the socket. DO NOT FORGET to lock the socket or the laptop will not start. Does it help?
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 am
How do I reset the BIOS on a P10-504?
I’m getting the following error message when I switch on
For realtek rtl8139(x)/8130/810x PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-m0F: Exiting PXE Rom
From all the research I’ve done it seems the BIOS may be corrupted so I need to reset it.
Is there anyway to do this apart from completely dissembling it and removing the BIOS battery?
By the way I’ve already replaced the hard disk with a brand new one.
Thanks very much in advance
Regards
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 am
freedomian,
Will it boot Windows after the error message or the laptop just stay there?
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:09 am
No, it just displays the same error message over and over
Regards
June 5th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Hey,
yesterday I formated my laptop and now I need the graphicdriver but I don’t know which one I need. Can you help me please?
June 5th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Hey,
yesterday I formated my laptop and now I need the graphicdriver but I don’t know which one I need. Can you help me please?
I have the same laptop as you P15-S240.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Please, can you show me the bios battary?
I can´t find it, I´ve got a defect P10-824!
Thanx!
August 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 am
excellent tool. very helpfull cleaned heatsink on my own thank you irisvista
December 12th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I can not restore,well I mean use the recovery disk from Toshiba I keep getting I/O error on the dvd drive. I retart the laptop hold down the C key as the instructions say.and nothing happens. Is the drive broken is there any other way of restoreing the laptop like new again.
sure could use the help
Thanks
January 4th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I can’t seem to get past step 7 on the screen for the P10/15 motherboard removal. I thought maybe making a donation was the key, which I did, but I’m still stuck at #7.
January 4th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Robert Marquardt,
Thank you for the donation. It wasn’t the key but thanks anyway.
I guess you are talking about this guide: http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/toshiba-satellite-p15/removing-motherboard-1.htm
There are THREE pages. Look for Page 1 :: Page 2 :: Page 3 links on the top and bottom and you’ll get to the next step.
I guess you are stuck on the first page because you missed links to next pages.
Good luck!