I used Fdisk to wipe my hard DRIVE in a toshiba 1715XCDS laptop. I did it before to go back to win98. It won't give me the option to format the disc...after I start it, it goes thu that media failure pxe-e61 codes. And that no operating system is found.....I set it to boot from cd, tried digital dollly, disc medic, UBCD but nothing happens.....all I end up with is a black screen with a stationary flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner....I really need to keep this on life support...anyone have any ideas or anything I can try??
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- I am receiving the following error message when I try to start my son's computer. PXE-E61 Media Test Failure check cable.
Needless to say I checked all cables but to now avail. I went into bios and the computer doesn't recognize the hard drive. I put in a new hard drive but still no good.

- PXE seems to refer to a pc that is trying to boot from the Network...
Can you go into the BIOS and disable Boot from LAN or Network ??

- I disable the lan boot w/no pxe support in the bios and put in a new hard drive 30 gig and it is great now.
I believe the hard drive went bad and it then tried to load an os from a previous network, which caused the PXE error. The true culprit was the bad hard drive.

something is damaged like UMMM................................... ....................................... ........( hang up the phone )