Portege 3500 - how to reinstall XP?

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• Portege 3500: How to install clean WinXP without CD player?

  I have this laptop where it didn't build any what optical drive controller. Must buy its PCMCIA controller or external hard drive TOSHIBA: x

  So my question is, without them both, how can I install it?

  Hello

  If you want to use the CD of restoration if you need an external drive with bootable media.
  Please check these forum entries:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5682&MessageID=19514

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=13024&MessageID=47644

• Portege 3480: How to reinstall Windows 2000

  I got the original CD laptops, a new copy of W2000 and I can't get an any of them to work. I used the toshiba mini cd rom to install the CD and a freecom drive. When I use the external drive to tosh he gets where you are looking for my pcmcia card cdrom (free com and then dies).

  My second approach was just to install 2000 and I got to the page where is demand to recover or install and when you use install he says no hd has been found, you may need to til cds that do not work.
  Any ideas on how to work around this problem, I have a copy of 95, 98se, and 2000.

  DOM

  Hello Dom

  What is the status of the HARD drive? Any OS already preinstalled and you are able to use wisely? Are you sure that the HARD drive is not faulty?

  As far as I know with facilities compatible STRANGE recovery and original CD, it should work without any problem, because the recovery image contains the driver for PCMCIA connected external optical drives.

• How to boot from Portege 3500 - instructions

  I discovered far from starting form Toshiba Portege 3500 and laptop now mt work.
  Email me [email protected] for help

  Hello

  Thanks for the offer, but it will be nice if you can post your instructions here.
  A lot of people read this forum and this is the right place to post some useful instructions.

  Good bye

• How to read a film on Portege 3500?

  My external DVD player is only recognized with this card: "DVD - Rom drive / CD Boot, install and recovery (PCMCIA CARD). It will not play DVD... at jump, etc.

  When I try and connect using the "DVD - Rom drive / DVD playback for high Performace (CardBus card)"-I get NOTHING. The drive is not recognized in my computer.

  Can anyone help? I'm not "tech-savvy" and have a daughter who wants nothing more than to play a film on this laptop older (Portege 3500).

  Thank you!!!

  Have you changed the PC Card controller mode in BIOS Toshiba?
  This option could be found on the second page of the BIOS.

  Usually it s set to autoselect.
  First you need to change the configuration parameters of device for all devices and then you will be able to change the mode of controller of compatible CCIP or Cardbus/16 bit PC card or selected automatically.

  I recommend all three verification options!

• Installation of WXP on Portege 3500

  It is a question of a person can suffer idiots like me!
  A friend gave me a Portege 3500 without a HARD drive.
  I have one but have no manual. Looked on the Toshiba site but does not tell me how to access BIOS which is obviously a problem.

  3500 has no floppy or the HARD disk drive if the 3500 will recognize the external USB drive with disk to install XP in it? (if I can change the boot sequence?
  Do I need to burn discs of startuop XP and buy a floppy drive?
  I would be grateful if someone who can take me through the steps to get this up and running. I have a PC to burn aging if necessary.

  Thank you very much,.
  Martin to the: [email protected]

  Hello

  The fact is that not all external CD/DVD drives are supported for the start.
  You need an individual. As far as I know the compatible is a PX1055E-1NST.
  But this device only comes with a 32-bit cardbus card. This card will be recognized only in the Windows operating system.
  You need a 16-bit cardbus card. The Bios can recognize this card and you can boot from the external drive.

  Note: The pc card controller option must be set to automatic selection or CCIP compatible.

• Portege 3500: Need a new HARD drive

  Hello

  I bought a Portege 3500 and after a few weeks of use, the hard disk or fan (safe) started to make loud noises and now every time I turn on the laptop screens toshiba rises and it happens eventually to a screen I wrote what he said below.

  I read somewhere that this means that my hard drive is over and I have to buy a new hard drive.
  Is this true and if so anyone know where I can get a drive hard because the laptop is old?

  The only one I've seen that is in stock is of about £230 and it's about the same price, I bought the laptop.
  Or is there a solution ive tried going on in all modes but it just restarts and Ive also tried to reinstall the OS using the cd but I can't in the menu option to reinstall XP.

  "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.

  If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automatically closed down to protect your files and folders, select last good known Configuration to return to the most recent settings that worked.

  If a previous startup attempt was interrupted due to a power failure or because the Power or Reset button has been activated, or if you are not sure what caused the problem, choose Start Windows normally.

  Safe mode
  Safe mode with networking
  Safe mode with command prompt
  Last good Configuration known (your most recent settings that worked)
  Start Windows normally

  Use top and down arrow keys to move the selection of your choice.

  Seconds until Windows starts: 30 "

  Hello

  AFAIK Portege 3500 was equipped with the 40 GB IDE HDD.
  This is why you must use an IDE hard drives (not SATA).

  Now, it would be important to know what max HD size could be compatible;
  If the laptop supports 40 GB I think a 60 GB HARD drive might work too.

  I think that you should just google for some 40 GB, 60 GB hard drives, that supports the IDE!

  Best regards

• Portege 3500 - change HARD drive and deal with overheating CPU

  I recently bought a Portege 3500 without any support of discs etc. It doesn't have a CD or a floppy disk. It has 2 problems, I want to trouble.
  (a) HARD drive is obviously out because it is by clicking on me, and it presents a permanent red section during defragmentation.
  (b) the fans are at full power all the time, and the CPU is running slowly.

  (a) I had a new HARD drive that I reformatted on other laptops. I put a base Windows XP on this HARD drive and uploaded on my external that I attach to the Portege. I used "transfer... Assistant "to transfer files, folders, and settings to the new HARD drive but I don't know how to install the old Windows XP OS Tablet it." I have the product key of Microsoft for the operating system. Any suggestions would be helpful.

  (b) I believe that the transfer of heat from the CPU on the radiator is a failure, causing the processor to hot and therefore slows down. I already solved the same problem with a Dell by coating the top of the CPU with Artic Silver 5 paste. I cannot, however to get the CPU in the same Portege so I removed all the screws down. Does anyone know how to split the case without causing damage?

  Hello

  (a) Unfortunately, but I don t really know how you want to install the operating system without using the recovery CD or the windows CD.
  I searched a bit in this forum and found these messages on the installation of the OS on the Portege 3500:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5926
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=15336&MessageID=55939

  See also this FAQ:
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB6101CA000ER02.htm

  (b) on the Portégé, you should find the power saver utility. This utility allows you to change the different modes of cooling and processing speed.
  In my opinion, you should also check if the fans are clean. Especially the dust and debris inside of the laptop is responsible for cooling not properly of the CPU and other parts.

  But if you want to know how to remove the covers so I would recommend checking this site. Maybe you'll find something useful.
  http://tech.irisvista.com/laptops/Toshiba4010/portege4010_1.htm

• Can what external CD/DVD-Rom I use on Portege 3500

  Does anyone know what are the criteria for an external CD ROm for a Portege 3550? There are 3 units recommended in the forum that could restart the Toshiba Reinstall the Portege 3500 drives, 2 Targus and Toshiba 1.

  This seems very limited. In particular the 2793008 of Toshiba will do the job? No USB unit is recommended and it seems it takes a 16-bit interface - not a 32-bit.

  Can someone clarify please?

  Hello

  I don t think that it will be able to boot from USB key because the BIOS doesn t it supports.
  If you want to retrieve from the CardBus PCMCIA adapter you will need a special disc boot that allows the start of the PC 16-bit PCMCIA card.

  I found these drivers:
  Light Slimline CD-ROM 24 x, PX1052E-1NMD (16-bit PCCard)
  Slimline CD - RW 8 x / 8 x / 24 x CDRW, PX1054E-1NST (CardBus)
  Slimline DVD - ROM 8 x / 24 x, PX1053E-1NMD (CardBus)
  Slimline Combo, PX1055E-1NST (CardBus)

• CD-ROM for Portege 3500 recovery does not work!

  I have a Portege 3500 tablet pc and the recovery cd does not work.
  I followed the instructions but nothing happened to my windows again!
  Can you tell me please how can I get my phone?
  Thank you

  Hello

  AFAIK the Portege 3500 dose does not support internal CD/DVD players.
  Have you used an external hard drive that is compatible and supported for boot from the CD?

• Portege 3500 - installation of the OS

  The operating system on my laptop is corrupted and whenever I try to start I get the famous blue screen saying that Windows has encountered an error and stops down to avoid any data loss. I tried to connect a CD - ROM USB drive to see if I can reinstall the system Toshiba from him but the laptop does not recognize the drive. Don't know what my options are. I see a post on the installation of the local network. It has no configuration on the client, in which case, it will not work because I can't go beyond this blue screen on startup.

  A final note to say that I am currently based in Spain, even if I bought the laptop in the United Kingdom. The reason for this note is to see if I'll have to send the laptop to Toshiba here of reinstalling the operating system.

  Thank you very much in advance for your help.

  Concerning

  Fadel
  Do you have any suggestions?

  Hello

  As far as I know, Portege 3500 can be installed with recovery DVDs using just external card PC CD/DVD or Combo drive. The way is to contact some service partners and ask them if they can do it for you.

  The recovery procedure takes about 20 minutes and I think that it may not cost a lot of money.

  Good bye

• Portege 3500: missing system32 - update the BIOS?

  Hello world

  I got a Portege 3500 PIII-M 1.33 GHz, which has been infected by a virus. I tried to reinstall Windows Xp, but the SYSTEM32 file is missing or damaged.

  I downloaded the BIOS driver and tried to install it via an external CD drive, but it did not work.
  Could you please help me at all?
  I am very concerned about the situation

  Can't wait to hear from you

  Thank you

  Davide

  Hello

  I can t believe that the virus may damage the BIOS!
  I think that you have updated the BIOS with the wrong procedure.
  Have you checked the BIOS update document?

  In any case, the fault of system32 has nothing to do with the BIOS and I don t understand why you started the update of the BIOS.

  The Portege 3500 does not support an internal hard drive, and so if you want to install the operating system, you must use a compatible external PC card reader.
  I assume you are using this player to start.

  If some error messages appear during the installation, you must first format the whole HARD drive and delete all partitions and then try again to boot from the recovery CD!

• Portege 3500 will not start on PCMCIA - tablet PC 2005 installation

  Hello
  Sorry for my English, I'm french
  I want to reinstall a tablet PC 2005 Edition.
  I have a portege 3500 with CDROM PCMCIA reader.
  Tablet PC does not start on PCMCIA...

  Help me
  TKS

  Hello

  I found a very interesting document of the FAQ on the Toshiba site:
  Procedure of product recovery and Bootdisk (FD) for the Portege 3500 Series.
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB6101CA000ER02.htm

  It should help you get started on the PCMCIA drive.

  In any case, this theme has been discussed a lot of time here in the forum.
  Please check other threads:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5926
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=15336&MessageID=55939

  Give us a feedback if you succeeded.

• Question about the Installation of Windows XP on Portege 3500 home

  I have a second hand Portege 3500 with WXP tablet 2005 Server Pack 2 market version, but without the original disks. However, recently had a virus that did something to Prime the area on the hard disk. I have removed the virus but now get unexpected core dumps memory and system restarts when you try to connect to the internet.

  Question: can I go down a level and safely install ordinary WXP software to work around the problem or the acquisition of new version of WXP Tablet and reinstall the software to circumvent the problem of core dump?

  Installation of an operating system on this laptop, it's the hardest thing I have ever tried to do. Once start you, you will notice that there is no device boot attached to this pc. To install windows, yourself, the only options are to buy the cdrom drive for this laptop toshiba external or install via a network.

  The toshiba cdrom drive is now quite obsolete, more expensive and the external device only that the laptop starts from (I tried with the other external cdroms, DVDs, disks usb keys and hard). It seems extremely difficult to boot from lan unless you already manage it infrastructure of the company. It is possible in theory, but after 3 weeks I still hadn't thought about her.

  My solution at the end of the day was to send it to my local toshiba support center and ask them to re - install for me (he happened to have one in stock toshiba cdrom burners). I got the installation cd, so I guess you will need get these images from toshiba as well (or buy another os).

  Good luck!

• Portege 3500: I need the cover plastic for hard drives

  I have a toshiba portege 3500 and I use it allot and recently I noticed a spot on the hard drive plastic cover-F6 numbered where I can get a replacement for it and how much it cost me through any replys

  Expensive chain, you are the best! :)

  It's really amazing to see how many things are available on eBay.