Still can't get into the BIOS, although I haven't tried replacing the CMOS battery itself yet. I left it out for 15 minutes before snapping it back in.
Finally, I tried removing the lithium CMOS battery in the laptop itself, in order to try to get a factory BIOS reset. It doesn't matter if there's a bootable DVD in the tray or bootable USB/Pen-drive in the port while booting up either, which makes me think the Boot order is HD first. It just goes through the same Toshiba splash screen, "Check Media-Failed, no bootable devices" spiel each and every time. Holding down F2 or any of the other buttons before powering on doesn't make a difference. No BIOS, no boot-order menu screen, no nothing. Hit the power up button, but no amount of F2, F8, F12, ESC, del, Ins hitting, with or without the FN key, makes any difference.
However, I cannot get into BIOS at all on the laptop. The OS on the original (dead) drive was Win8 (which she hated), the poached (working) drive had Win7 on it, though I'm planning on a format & reinstall (of course) of Windows 7 after retrieving any useful data from it, through Puppy Linux or other bootable recovery tools. So, using a poached HD (which I can confirm works) from the other laptop she killed (also a Toshiba Satellite, with comparable stats) I've installed it in this machine. Please restart machine." And we have the ominous clicking noise coming from the innards of the machine, the tell-tale sign of Hard Disk failure. Powering up we have the Toshiba splash screen, then after a moment goes to a black screen with some short text: "Checking Media-Failed. This Toshiba Satellite is the latest victim, which took a tumble from the bed. 5, that was a dropped Dell which shorted out 3/4 of the USB ports, disabled the DVD drive, cracked the screen so only about a few inches is legible.but the HDMI out and 1 USB port still work, so she uses it with the aid of an LCD TV). She has something of a checkered past with laptops and has pretty much destroyed 2.5 of them already (if you're interested in the. I'm trying to repair the laptop of a good friend of mine. I figure that the GoG community is particular good at this sort of thing. I'm addressing the floor with a technical query I hope the collective hive mind of General Discussion can help me solve.
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