I'm not sure, I use the recovery disk.
I would do a search for "disk eraser." Many sites offer free utilities to scrub a hard drive. If you need to seriously mess up a drive, I would recommend using a hardware solution that is designed to meet DoD specs (department of defense). Obviously, formatting a hard drive will not delete all the data. In fact, it's pretty easy to recover it. So, you want a program that will write 0's and 1's to the disk; and random characters for that matter. The more times you "wipe" the less likely the data is to be found later on.
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.
Are you replacing the HD or do you want to SWAP with OS installed on BOTH????
There should be a recovery partition on the hard-drive. There is on mine !
A recovery disc for a Toshiba Satellite C655 can be made by loading the recovery program inside of Windows. It allows discs to be burned using an image stored on the 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.
Toshiba does not specify a maximum size hard drive for this laptop. Based on its age / date of manufacture, it was probably built around the time of the 2.1 GB barrier, and thus is already equipped with the largest possible drive usable under most operating systems.
The Toshiba A15-S157 uses a standard 2.5" 40 GB EIDE / PATA hard drive.
hit it really hard with a hammer
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 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.
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.