I have a toshiba satellite laptop. deleting the data on the hard drive and got an error after 20 hrs of running. the error is 20-FFFE-0017

You may have a bad hard drive. If you are able to log into Windows, run Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic software.
1. Download Data lifeguard:
Hard drive analysis software
2. Install the software and run an extended test on your main partition.

If the test fails, then your hard drive is bad.1. Purchase a new hard drive from a local Best Buy or other2. If you don't have the original restore CDs, order them from Toshiba
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Hi,

try using ActiveBoot suite v5.0.5, when turnig on your computer. This program will scan your computer and show u all the errors,missing files, wrong dll,...and repair them. It worked very well for me as I had a TROJAN virus on my Toshiba satellite 300 and couldn't even boot anymore.
After that try use the RegistryBooster tool witch solves every windows problems.

I hope this will help. Good luck :)

Your hard drive is more than likely damaged. You can try to format the hard drive and completely re install everything and see if that works.

First, try and do a system restore to roll back your operating system to a previous state. Click in the link below and follow the steps on the page:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2266976_do-system-recovery.html

After doing a system restore and you still are getting the error code then you will need to reintall your operating system. Follow these steps at the link below:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4504388_reinstall-operating-system-windows-xp.html

I had the same problem with a customers laptop. There hard drive died nothing related to that error then when i placed in the new hard drive the recovery disks gave me 10-FC12-0017. Everything I saw online said that means the hard drive is dead but it was brand new and I even tested it on another computer it worked fine. In order to fix the issue I had to find a Windows Vista CD, deleted all the partitions with the windows disk, created a new one and then installed. Worked fine, no problems.

You most likely have a bad hard drive. I would replace the hard drive and run a recover disk to put your laptop back to it factory condition. if you don't have a recovery disk you can get one at one of the sites below.

http://www.myrecoverycds.com/toshibaSets.html

http://www.recovery-cds.com/laptop/search.asp?keywords=toshiba

Take out both hard disks and switch their places than run recovery disks.

if sys restore dont work try reinstall or repair from xp os disk

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what does it say when you try to re-install using the boot disk?