Portege R100: No restore CD - is WinXP installation possible?

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  Drive HARD original of my old laptop Portege 4000 just crashed. I went to the local computer store and bought a new Samsung 40 GB HDD (no part no MP0402H) what they recommended. First of all, I have problem to him have partitioned and formatted when it is installed in the computer. Only, I managed to have 25% partitioned only 2 GB?

  Then, when I try to install Win XP Home with the boot floppies that the installation will stop when you insert the disc 6. The new HARD drive is recognized properly by the computer?

  Can I somehow get into the BIOS and change the type of HARD drive?

  Hello

  Stand by. AFAIK the unit has just two (1/2 and 2/2) recovery CD and just sold in Switzerland has several recovery disks (three languages).

  Can you please be more specific about this? At the beginning I have will be just understood what you are trying to do.

• Various installation with the Portege R100 and Windows XP issues

  Hello

  I recently bought a used Portege R100. It came without OS and I wanted to install XP SP2.

  I know that restorations only work with PCMCIA readers adapted, but the HARD drive is formatted, so there is no recovery possible I guess.
  Here are my problems:
  -with my very old Freecom PCMCIA CD player the Windows installation CD is recognized, and it starts to load the XP drivers until he wants to start copying files installiation--> then I get the blue screen of Windows with the error 00 x 7 (virus or driver)
  -the same thing happens with my former W2k Pro installation disc.
  -With the even more ancient W98SE, strange things are happening too: installation seems to work fine, but when it comes to start with W98SE, for the first time, the system hangs up with pixelgarbage.
  -Make the 6 Bootdisks with makeboot doesn't work anymore.
  -J' also tried MS-DOS! And guess what! It worked! Loading the Freecom drivers and copy of Windows I386 folder on my hard drive with the volkov Commander (something similar to NortonCommander) worked too! So I got hav files on my drive but after running Windows NT in the i386 folder, the system hangs after some time, when it starts to copy the files to a temporary folder.

  So I tried almost everything I know. at this moment I am download knoppix to try it.

  I ran Memtest86 and 9 Diskmanager to test the RAM and HARD drive, finished two withut errors, so the priority of main parts in the installation process seems to work. Maybe it's that my IDE controller is broken?
  I have no idea, WHY does he not move windows!

  Help is hot!

  Thank you

  Christian
  Does

  It should work out that way, run you own your HD first in Fat32format - file-system, otherwise it won't work!
  Don't forget to use "smartdrive' in your BACK-commissioning, otherwise it will take a lot of time, even the 'freeze' is possible.

  See also: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232

• Portege R100 - question about the installation of the USB port and Windows problems

  Hello

  I just bought a used Portege R100, but I have some problems. Of course the laptop isn't a CD or DVD, player so I tried an external DVD drive, but it did not work. What kind of device I have to install Windows (not an edition of recovery or anything like that, but a whole new windows on the formatted HARD drive)?

  I also have another problem: whenever I plug a USB device (I tried the DVD drive external and a USB keyboard) when I start the laptop, it seems to hang. At least, I am not able to type anything more; the keyboard of the laptop is dead (the point where the entrance would still be flashing in the BACK platform, but typing. sth on the keyboard isn't doing anything). It is not normal, is it?

  I also tried to get to the BIOS, but I tried various commands (F1 to F12, DEL etc.), but I couldn't access the BIOS. It would be great if someone could tell me the command for it.

  Thanks in advance for the help and sorry for the bad English, I'm not a native speaker :)

  The forum has a search function, but to help you look still these 2 wires:

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=23921

  Here you can see that XP installation isn't very easy, but can be done successfully

  as long as you are working in an environment with appropriate back-drivers back, you can use any kind of external (USB or pcmcia) CD player you want

  the bios is accessible by pressing ESC and the Start button

• Portege R100 - restore the system software

  I have a portege r100 that has been absent for repairs three times in the last two months. He has just returned to me and now blus screens through startup. I guess I now need to rebuild the operating system but have only a USB CD drive. I contacted the support help line which can not tell me where I can get a CD PCMCIA drive to rebuild the laptop (I have the CD). Any ideas on:
  -Where to get a CD player (in the United Kingdom)
  -Otherwise, how to perform the task.

  Thank you

  Hello

  I found this Toshiba document:
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

  You will find a compatible readers and supported for R100.
  I recommend seeing for readers of this and find an online store that sells players.
  The other possibility is to order these parts from the Toshiba service partner.

• Portege R100 - installation operating system 16-bit bootable CD-Rom PCMCIA

  Hi all

  I was wondering if one of you boffin can advice on a very frustrating problem I am experiencing.

  I'm trying to re - install the recovery CD on a Portege R100, so far without success.

  I have learned that I need (ed) a cdrom of 16-bit pcm bootable to do the job - after getting a 16 bit pcm [LG] bootable disk I found that seems not be recognized at startup, choose to boot from the pcm does nothing, it loads just of the HARD drive and I am at a loss on how to move forward.

  I talked to Toshiba and Freecom, both advising all 16-bit pcm bootable CD-ROM should do the trick, they confirm that they are no longer manufacturing or selling these devices and both suggest I source one of it like eBay... someone at - it ideas?

  Hello

  If you start Windows, the drive will be then recognized?
  Have you tried to change the boot priority in the BIOS?

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• Can I use restore with disk CD external non-Toshiba - Portege R100?

  Hello

  I'm trying to recover a Portege R100. Y at - it another way to do it rather than using a player "Recommended Toshiba", I already have three external drives and don't really see any point in buying another.

  Any help would be appreciated

  Nick

  Hello

  I think that this should be possible. I mean, why not? Why toshiba reduce to their own records?

  Just use one of your hard drives external and gives maybe a little report how it worked.

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• Portege R100 - recovery CD lost

  Hi... There's a year ago, I had installed a vista transformation pack on my portege r100, but when I uninstalled it, I was still left with icons and displays pop-up ads and other stuff from the Pack... Also, I've lost some features like system restore lately... all this has added to my frustration and I need to reinstall windows XP pro again... But I lost the CD of toshiba recovery... I have a separate bootable XP installation CD although and want to install on my portege

  I have a few questions:
  1. I have an external USB CD RW/DVD Rom Combo from Toshiba. Do I need any other than a bootable XP Pro installation CD?
  2. can I use the serial number of the COA under my portege?
  3. can I use the recovery CD to my friend toshiba instead?

  I would appreciate any kind of help on your part, thank you.

  Post edited by: audguy

  Hello

  > 1. I have an external USB CD RW/DVD Rom Combo from Toshiba. Do I need something other than a bootable XP Pro installation CD?

  You usually have a compatible CD/DVD of PCMCIA drive in order to boot from a floppy disk for Win XP.
  But I met some people here in the forum who have tried to reinstall Win XP without using a CD/DVD drive.
  Check these discussions:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums//thread.jspa?MessageID=155632

  > 2. Can I use the serial number of the COA under my portege?
  I doubt that this serial number work in relationship with other Windows operating systems. This serial key belongs to the Win operating system on the recovery disk. It s version an OEM and cannot be used with the other Win XP.

  > 3. Can I use the recovery CD from Toshiba to my friend?
  You must use the recovery disk that was specially designed for the Portege R100. If your friend is the owner of the Portege R100 even then the recovery disk should work on your Portege R100.
  The point is that the recovery disc contains drivers, tools and other software that has been developed only for some notebook series. If you want to use the recovery disk that does not contain drivers for Portege R100 then you could damage it the hardware or an error...

  Greetings

• Portege R100: FDISK and format HDD takes a long time

  I have a Portege R100 and when I tried executing FDISK it will take a lot of time to create a DOS partition.

  After executing FDISK, I tried to FORMAT the HD and takes more than 6 hours to format the hard drive.
  After Format, I tried to load Win XP but it hanged system with loading messages files...

  Could someone hep me

  Hello

  Why you do not restore CD to create new partitions? It can be done very quickly. This option is available in the installation in Expert mode.

  Time FDISK is long gone. :)

• Portege R100 - impossible to reinstall my Bluetooth

  I had to reinstall my computer (Toshiba Portege R100) since the factory installation discs and now I can't reinstall my BT
  I use the SD Card3 with PA3370 part number.

  My problem seems to be the inabililty to install the SD host upgrade.
  I downloaded the file sdhost-204030514-wxp-w2k. I have used this file before on this machine, but Windows does not run the installation program.
  When I unzip the archive, I can right click to install on the tsdhd.sys but further, nothing happens.

  All my other relocations worked perfectly and the only thing I can think is that XP SP3 does not like this installation package (my last restoration was under SP2).

  Any suggestions for a workaround?

  So, if I understand you correctly, you are not able to install the devices, bluetooth, and Player cards, right?

  For the card reader. I think you should just download following of this site: http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com (Support & downloads)

  -Cardbus driver
  -SD Host controller
  -SD memory card
  -Format SD memory

  Download battery bluetooth for bluetooth.

  Make sure that all downloads are unpacked, before installation and choose the appropriate model for laptop computer and operating system.

• Portege R100 and RIPREP

  Hello

  I'm having a problem with RIS and my laptop Toshiba Portege R100. When I try to extract an image from the notebook using riprep, it keeps failing. This happens even with a vanilla XP installation. All other my laptop works very well except this model.

  I noticed that since the file riprep.sif the last lines are missing from the torn picture failure. A successful image should look like this:

  [OSChooser]
  Description = "test image - Toshiba R100"
  Help =' '
  LaunchFile ="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.c om»
  ImageType = SYSPREP
  Version = "5.1 (2600) '"
  SysPrepSystemRoot = "Mirror1\UserData\WINDOWS".
  HalName = halacpi.dll
  ProductType = 0

  An image failed would replace the last few lines with the following information:

  [OSChooser]
  Description = "Windows Professional.
  Help = "this will install Windows Professional in a standard configuration.
  LaunchFile = "%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.co m '.
  ImageType = "Flat".

  I also checked the riprep.log file to see if there was no problem there. There are some services that were not arrested before the images were torn off. However, these services also appear in other newspapers of riprep files other images which have succeeded. I also stopped these services before starting the imaging process, but the problem persists.

  I rip an image successfully just now. I showed a colleague what happens when I tried using riprep, and it worked. I was pretty stripped, but this was the first and last time.

  I should also mention that the configuration of the network is DHCP statistics. I also tried to give a static IP address.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  If you need further information do not hesitate to contact me.

  Hello

  I'm not familiar with this, but please check this Microsoft article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304992.

  Also check this http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5558&messageID=19046#19046 topic

  Good bye

• How to install the OS on Portege R100?

  I have a Portege R100 by the usual means. It has been formatted so it doesn t have something about that. I read there are three ways to install an operating system. PC with USB CD-rom card, I tried without success since the pc card is a 32-bit card.

  I ve tried to locate some computer dealers but they've all sent me away. Where can I buy (live in Trondheim, Norway) good CD with the specific pc card that would make me start the CD of Windows XP Home edition? Apparently Toshiba doesn't have a webshop with accessories. Is there another way to install Windows XP Home edition?
  Can I boot from a USB pin if I copy the CD of Windows XP Home edition for that?

  IM desperate please answer :)

  Lars cordially

  Hello, Lars

  If you want to use the original recovery media in this case, you must use external Toshiba card PC CD/DVD. The recovery image contains disk driver and because of this, the reader will be recognized correctly and start procedure will work automatically.

  If you want to use the own external device, you must use BACK pilot to first use and after use of the drive. On this forum, one user recommended to copy the contents of the full version of Microsoft on the second partition CD and after that start the installation from there.

  I didn t try so far and cannot give you more specific information how to proceed.

  Bye and good luck!

• Portege R100 - burn my own recovery CD

  Hello
  I tried to reinstall Windows on my Portege R100 for weeks and finally discovered

  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

  It is said that if you have a CD player of UBS by Toshiba or something equivalent and appropriate recovery CD, you can boot from the recovery CD to reinstall Windows.
  But I have the recovery CD is not that one "appropriate". In this case, the above document suggests to download the bootimage for floppy drive, then

  "you can make your own CD for recovery bootable directly with this bootimage, if extract you it and use as (1, 44MB) floppy emulation in your Favorites, engraving software and combine it with data from the original CD."

  Can someone explain what this means? Once you unzip the bootimage file attached to the document, you will get a .exe file, which, when you click on, trying to put a bootable diskette. How can I use this .exe file to create a bootable CD?
  Thanks in advance.

  MJ

  Hello

  On this Toshiba document described how you can preinstall your Portege R100 using original recovery (already delivered) media. As you can see you can use Toshiba external drives listed there and on this installation path is very easy because the designed Toshiba recovery image already contains the necessary driver for Toshiba external drives.

  If you n t have Toshiba drives but start other USB drives, you can retrieve the device using Toshiba drive.

  There is nothing on your recovery media burning on this document. As far as I know, you can do so by using some applications like Norton Ghost (I use it) and if you have an external hard drive. Application of Norton Ghost to make the recovery image on the HARD drive directly (I prefer this option and save the image on the D partition) or burn it to CD/DVD bootable.

• Portege R100 + Windows 7 RTM commercial = fail

  Hey people,

  I just came to Windows7 RTM on my Portege R100. But I can't not all utilities work. For the Hotkeys FN + Workin ', I tried "Toshiba Value added Package", but I did appear an error during the installation process: "ID_ERR_NOTINSTALLVALZ_MESSAGE."

  One for Windows xp designed software does not start anyway... so I had to look for software designed for vista/7, but in my eyes toshiba can't stand not a 5 year book, most new operating systems... driver vista for my R100 at all, but with windows7 I have no driver to install manually.

  So, how can I solve the problem with the FN keys? Nothin' works, the because not all software start XP designed...

  Thank you
  Betzi

  Hello

  I think that it s Betzi normal and you can't do anything. I mean it s only the RTM of Windows 7 and currently are without tools and drivers for Windows 7 available. What you can try are Vista drivers.

  I think you should wait a few more weeks until the driver support starts, possibly for R100

  Alternative, you can try some software in beta from the Toshiba page we:
  http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com

  Good luck! :)

• Touchpad does not work on Portege R100

  Hello

  I have recently boght a Toshiba Portege R100 without any installation CD Windows XP Home Edition worked fine but the touchpad is not.

  I installed additional drivers of Toshiba. Now, I'm able to adapt to all kinds of things about the Touchpad, but still it does not work. I was also running Knoppix 5.2 since July 2007. Same problem with Linux.

  Have I not a faulty laptop? How will I know, please?

  Have you tested the touchpad with Windows XP?
  You connected an external USB mouse and you have the same problem?

  Normally the touchpad should work without a driver, they are part of the operating system.
  You can disable/enable it with FN + F9.
  I'm not sure, but you can also enable/disable the touchpad in the BIOS.

  It could be that the touchpad is defective, but ask an ASP for help. They can check the necessary parts for laptop and Exchange.