I am posting this not as a question but as a solution that worked for me, because another thread regarding this error has been closed and did not contain this suggestion.
My friend's Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934 (PSLC8U-03701Q) had a bad hard drive, WD2500BEVS-26VAT0. I obtained a replacement WD2500BEVS-26VAT0 from eBay. It even had the same FW level as the original drive.
She did not have the recovery disks and the old drive was malfunctioning so badly that I was not able to create them, so we ordered recovery media direct from Toshiba. (Windows Vista SP1)
When I ran the recovery, it made it almost to the end and issued error code 10-FC12-045D. Windows was not bootable. Web search indicated a problem with the replacement drive, or possibly memory or the recovery media.
I tried deleting the drive partitions that had been created by the failed recovey with Gparted just to make sure we were starting with a clean drive. Ran the recovery, same error. I ran BartstuffTest on the drive, no errors. I installed Windows 7 on the PC successfully in one large partition. It ran fine and I ran chkdsk /f /r and found no bad sectors. Although it was running good, we could not keep this Windows 7 install because we did not have a license for it and I wanted the system to have the legitimate OS it was supposed to have and to have the recovery partition, etc, which would only be achieved by using the official Toshiba recovery media.
After a few more failed attempts, I finally ended up running the "Erase the hard disk" function from the recovery CDs. This took over 24 hours on the 250GB drive but I wanted to start totally clean and I wanted something that would touch all sectors. After that, I ran the Recovery Wizard again, BUT, on the "Recovery of Factory Default Software" screen, instead of taking the default to "Recover to out-of-box state" I selected the option to "Recover to a custom size partition" and just let the size default to whatever it had pre-selected (I think 231GB). After this, the recovery completed without error and the system came out running fine, complete with a licensed & activated Vista, a recovery partition and all the pre-installed junkware apps that Toshiba included with the system.
I really don't think the 24-hour full disk erasure was what made the recovery work. I think it was selecting the Custom Partition Size option. However, I included that info just in case that step was significant. My theory is that even though I attempted to obtain (and thought I had) the exact replacement drive that should have been the exact same size as the original, perhaps there was some slight difference in size that was being detected by the recovery program and by selecting a custom partition size, the program could overlook this difference.
Hope this helps somebody.
-Marty
My friend's Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5934 (PSLC8U-03701Q) had a bad hard drive, WD2500BEVS-26VAT0. I obtained a replacement WD2500BEVS-26VAT0 from eBay. It even had the same FW level as the original drive.
She did not have the recovery disks and the old drive was malfunctioning so badly that I was not able to create them, so we ordered recovery media direct from Toshiba. (Windows Vista SP1)
When I ran the recovery, it made it almost to the end and issued error code 10-FC12-045D. Windows was not bootable. Web search indicated a problem with the replacement drive, or possibly memory or the recovery media.
I tried deleting the drive partitions that had been created by the failed recovey with Gparted just to make sure we were starting with a clean drive. Ran the recovery, same error. I ran BartstuffTest on the drive, no errors. I installed Windows 7 on the PC successfully in one large partition. It ran fine and I ran chkdsk /f /r and found no bad sectors. Although it was running good, we could not keep this Windows 7 install because we did not have a license for it and I wanted the system to have the legitimate OS it was supposed to have and to have the recovery partition, etc, which would only be achieved by using the official Toshiba recovery media.
After a few more failed attempts, I finally ended up running the "Erase the hard disk" function from the recovery CDs. This took over 24 hours on the 250GB drive but I wanted to start totally clean and I wanted something that would touch all sectors. After that, I ran the Recovery Wizard again, BUT, on the "Recovery of Factory Default Software" screen, instead of taking the default to "Recover to out-of-box state" I selected the option to "Recover to a custom size partition" and just let the size default to whatever it had pre-selected (I think 231GB). After this, the recovery completed without error and the system came out running fine, complete with a licensed & activated Vista, a recovery partition and all the pre-installed junkware apps that Toshiba included with the system.
I really don't think the 24-hour full disk erasure was what made the recovery work. I think it was selecting the Custom Partition Size option. However, I included that info just in case that step was significant. My theory is that even though I attempted to obtain (and thought I had) the exact replacement drive that should have been the exact same size as the original, perhaps there was some slight difference in size that was being detected by the recovery program and by selecting a custom partition size, the program could overlook this difference.
Hope this helps somebody.
-Marty