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• Need CD/DVD writer drivers for Windows XP on Portege R500

  According to the Installation Instructions on the Toshiba Portege R500 with Windows XP for driver download site, I need Toshiba disc Creator V2.0.0.8 and Toshiba Direct Disk Writer V1.1.0.0 for my engraver of CD/DVD.

  None of these is available among the files on the Toshiba Portege R500 with Windows XP driver download site. Where can I get these drivers?

  Hello Ad

  I imagine that you are a little confused about missing drivers, but actually, you should install only the stuff offered on the Toshiba download page.

  Please, do it and test drive optical with a burning software like Nero and you will see that everything works correctly.

  One more thing about this document Instructions of facilities: this list is the same as the use for creating Toshiba recovery image. Recovery image contains many more things that you can find on the download page. I don't want to explain now why is it and for WXP feature on Portege R500 is not so important.

  Important for you is to download all the stuff and install it following this order facilities.

  All that s!

  One last thing: I have heard that Toshiba will create DVDs from Windows XP Home edition for professional laptops recovery. I'm sure you can order this DVD of Windows XP Home edition. Try to contact the partner of service allowed in your country and ask if they can order one for you.

• Portege R500: XP Installation with CD/DVD external USB - SOLUTION drive

  Hi all!

  I just wanted to take five minutes to inform you that installing XP on a Portégé R500 with external USB CD/DVD drive is possible, even if you have already deleted Vista and with a CD bootable XP Win in hand.

  First go into your BIOS and check / set first boot device is CD/DVD player

  Start your installation of win XP from the CD without the F6 thing and let go his way

  After some time, the installation stops and says "cannot find the file xxxx" and you are invited to tell where is this file

  "" Just replace the drive letter "C:" which is given by default with the letter of your CD/DVD drive (and leave the rest as it is) and the installation will continue until the next "cannot find...". "and you need to again replace the drive letter, etc...

  After a complete installation 'automatic assisted manual', you are welcome in Win XP!

  The next question is "where can I find my CD/DVD drive letter?" and the answer is "it's the next letter after your last HARD drive letter" (I consider you have only your Portege with nothing else plugged that your CD/DVD) so more often it will be 'E' C: being the first partition of your HARD disc : is the hidden / recovery partition that winning creates.

  But don't worry, if you type try to the wrong letter, that you will have as much as you want until you find the good and the following "cannot find...". "it will remain the same.

  I hope that this information will help some of you who want a fresh installation of win XP from a newly formatted HARD disk.

  With sincere friendships.

  Mage.

  What a great information!
  Thanks a lot for posting this.

  I think it might be useful to others here.

  Good bye

• Re: Portege R500-11 with SSD: I want to install Win XP

  Sorry if this is a common question, but I haven't had no luck with the research.

  I have a Portege R500-11 pair with SSD and I want their downgrade to XP. (speed issues)

  First question. Is it possible or are there problems?

  Second: I guess I have to install the SSD driver, with nlite or F6 during installation of the victory, but which is the correct driver? Can someone give me the exact link, please?

  Is this? Intel Storage Manager.

  Thanks for your help and sorry again if it is a question of RTFM.
  Good bye

  Chris

  I found it!

  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB85017Z0000R01.htm

• Portege R500 upgrade to Win 7 64 bit: lost and no scrolling touchpad driver

  Dear all,

  I have updated my portege R500 WIndows 7 64-bit OS and had the following problems:

  1. as a first step the touchpad scrolling has worked well (with no driver installed) but then it works more... so I tried a driver but
  2. There is no driver for the touchpad (Alps) which is recognized as a compatible mouse PS
  BTW, uninstalling and reinstalling didn't work and I searched a lot on the web but found no solution.

  I downloaded the drivers for VISTA 64 bit, is it safe to use?

  Appreciated advice, thank you.

  Simone

  Hello

  > I downloaded the drivers for VISTA 64 bit, is it safe to use?
  Yes, it s safe you can try to install the drivers for the touchpad for Vista in the worst case, you will get an error message that this driver is not compatible or will not work.

  But look man there is Win 7 Alps and Synaptics touchpad drivers for Win 7.
  The drivers were released for other series of laptop.
  Check the Satellite L500 area for example

  I have Win 7 64 bit drivers.
  Synaptics v14.0.11.0
  Alps Electric v7.x5.303.117

  Welcome them

• Portege R500 - install Win XP - no hard drive detected

  Hello

  I just bought a new Toshiba Portege R500 notebook - 12 H with Windows Vista, and I would like to format the hard drive and install Windows XP instead.

  I have a Windows XP CD (the one from my old PC), I insert the disk and start the laptop computer on the installation of the Windows XP CD to load, I get the screen asking me "push F3 to quit, entry to install XP" (as usual).
  But when I click on 'install', it says no hard drive has been detected, and I wonder if I have any additional drivers.

  How is it possible that my 120 GB HD is not detected? It is in a format that does not know Windows XP? Can I get a driver, how can I install it? Can I upgrade the bios?

  Please help me ;)

  Thanks for all,

  Missing driver SATA.
  Very good description how to prepare the CD of facilities, you can find HERE.

  This Toshiba document could be useful for you:
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/HTD9401AN0000R01.htm

  If you have any other questions please let us know.

  Good luck!

• Problems installing win 7 in a portege R500

  Hi all:

  I want to perform a new installation of Windows 7 in a Portege R500. But I don't know if I need to provide some drivers in order to allow the operating system to understand the hard drive. Please, someone would know if I provide the drivers? In this case, how can I get the drivers?

  Thank you to everyone

  Alvaro

  Hi all:

  in the end, I fou8nd that the installer of windows 7 does not require pilots of the hd. He understands very well the hard drive and it is possible to do a fresh install without problems.

  Thank you.

• Portege R500 - low volume with Win 7 and Realtek driver

  Hello

  I have now installed Windows 7 on my R500 to prepare for the end of Windows XP to life.
  I've experienced this now with Windows 7 sound does not really work.

  Build-in speaker does not work and a speaker connected to the outside with amplifier can get just a little sound in the maximum amplification I googled and saw many people having similar problems.

  Does anyone know if Toshiba has a solution for this?

  Other people with laptop computers Portege have the same problem?

  Thank you
  Markus

  AFAIK the Portege R500 supports Realtek ALC262
  I googled and found some people having problems with low sound volume on other laptops from other manufacturers using the piece ALC262

  But I found the solutions :)
  Download the utility of small noise turn Mute Off after upgrade to Vista
  [Its utility to turn Mute Off | http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=1671893&pf=true] and unzip it with WinRAR or WinZip
  You will find a small file called "MuteOff". Run this file as an administrator and check if your sound would work.

  Note: All drivers should be installed as well as the Realtek audio driver.

  Your comments would be appreciated

• Portege R500 Fingerprint Utility not recognizing Win 7 password

  Hello

  I have Toshiba Portege R500 with Windows 7 Pro connected to SBS2008 field. Some time ago, I changed my password of domain, utility prints password digital (FPU) asked for the password, but after that I put it it says that the password is incorrect.

  I changed the password and reinstalled the software, still does not. It seems that the FPU has no access to the Windows password or remember the old password. Help, please.

  Best,
  D

  Hello

  I got this Toshiba FAQ on the fingerprint and the question of password field.
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB0702ZC0000R01.htm

  You don't know if this could help you but try to install the latest Toshiba Fingerprint Utility of the Tecra A11.
  Maybe it helps good luck

• Portege R500 does not start from the XP CD

  My basic problem is the following - I have a Portege r500 with Vista on it. I'm moving from Vista to XP Pro, but when I put a bootable XP installation CD in the drive, it turns, looking around for awhile and then I get a blank screen with a cursor blinking on it.

  Now, I've done this before, so I know that something is supposed to happen, but nothing don't. And I tried 3 well-known installation CD, is not a problem of CD. Do I need some update BIOS/firmware to boot from the CD on this thing? Or am I missing something?

  Help!

  Thank you.

  Often the Portege R500 should be able to boot from the CD/DVD drive and should begin the procedure of installation of the CD Win XP SP2 installation.

  But it is a tricky thing.
  The Portege R500 needs an Intel (r) Matrix Storage Manager (iMSM). This iMSM is necessary to recognize the HARD drive and install Win Xp on the HARD drive.

  I recommend you and create a new CD of Win XP starting with software called nLite to integrate the SP2 of Microsoft and Intel Matrix Storage Manager (iMSM) in Win XP.

  You can then use this CD for installation.

• Portege R500 USB Extrenal HARD drive question

  Recently, my boss bought a Portege R500 and I installed Win XP SP2.

  Installed all necessary drivers.

  It is, if I connect an external USB HDD's does not detect and I use the laptop after having removed the USB HDD applications hang up and it wont even stop.

  Can someone share a light on this problem?

  Thank you.

  It is not easy to share a lot of light on it. Who is the manufacturer of this external HARD drive? You have a software with this HARD drive that needs to be installed first?

• Portege R500 - Toshiba does sell OEM licenses for Windows 7

  Hello

  I have a Portege R500 with Windows XP.
  I have now installed a version of Windows 7 without activation to see if all the drivers are working (Windows 8 is not supported I know).

  Everything looks good and Windows tells me now as planned, it is not authentic and propose to buy the license, but when I go to MS it fails (it seems that MS sells not more Windows 7).

  Toshiba sells licenses for Windows 7 for a R500 OEM?

  It would be a shame to throw it away because of this.

  Thank you
  Markus

  All you can do is to order a Toshiba Recovery disk.
  The recovery disc contains exactly the same operating system that was preinstalled on the laptop on the first day of purchase.

  In your case, this means that you will get the recovery with Win XP OS disk.

  As Timox said: If you want to use the other system than Win XP, you must purchase the Microsoft operating system.

• Portege R500 - blue screen after installing Windows XP SP3 home edition

  * computer toshiba Portege R500 laptop *.

  * non-modele ppr50e00j00fs4 *.

  SP3 installed via update-site, received successful message SP3 installed restart... now bluescreen an impossibility to restart! Not even in save mode!

  If I try to start with the InstallationRecommandations, I get the following message:

  STOP: 0X0000007E (0XC0000005, 0XF79ED8EB, 0XF79ED7F4, 0XF79ED4F0)

  Can someone help me please?

  Hmmm. seems that this is a known Microsoft issue because I found these MS knwoldge base article:

  How to troubleshoot a Stop error 0x0000007E in Windows XP
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/330182/en-us/

  Microsoft has stated that:

  + These problems may occur if a system thread generates the error handler catches not an exception. You receive this error message if one or more of the following conditions are met: +.

  + If this issue occurs after the first restart during Windows Setup, or when the Setup program is finished, the computer does not have a sufficient disk space to run Windows. +
  + If this problem occurs after the first restart during the installation of Windows, or once the installation is complete, the computer's BIOS may be incompatible with Windows. +
  + Incompatible video card drivers. +
  + A chauffeur service or system device damaged. +
  + If the problem is associated with the Win32k.sys file, it can be caused by a control program remote third +.

  I recommend checking the solution proposals published on the website of Ms.

  Good bye

• Portege R500 - can only connect to unprotected WLAN

  Hello everyone

  My Portege R500 (win XP pro 32) has something very strange.
  It is absolute no problems to access any unprotected WIFI, but with the gateway D - Link DI-524 in WPA - PSK / WPA2-PSK channel 6 mode.
  He faults the IP assignment many times (from 30 min to 1 hour or more), before receiving access to the local network.

  Gaeway reports: dissociated [MAC ADDRESS] with no WPA retey

  The R500 is configured exactly as all other laptops. No other laptop not a WLAN access problem, even during failures R500.

  Often the WLAN will detect R500 with the maximum power level, and after a few minutes later without WLAN is available.

  I think that there is a driver problem with WXPpro in authentication procedure:
  The WiFi network is the Intel 4965AGN
  The driver is the ver.11.1.1.16 of NETw4x32.sys

  Help me please...

  Try:

  Update the BIOS
  Update the LAN and wireless drivers
  Disable your firewall
  Use the static IP instead of DHCP
  Update the Firmware on your DLink.
  Manually configure the wireless connection, instead of by selecting it in the list and clicking "connect".

• Portege R500 and Novatel Modem 3G on Windows 7

  Hello

  someone have a solution for getting the Modem 3 G build-in novatel works on Windows 7 in a Portege R500?

  I tried to install the driver for Vista 32 bit on my W7-Ultimate32bit. I have tried this driver:

  http://de.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/innovation/Tracker.jsp?file=http%3A%2f%2fsupport1.toshiba-tro.de%2ftedd-files2%2F0%2fwmb-20071115155201.zip

  Installation starts fine, but the installer then a fallback and stops.

  What do I have to wait for a W7 driver?

  Klaus

  > Should I wait for a W7 driver?
  I think so. You can try to use the Vista driver but there is no guarantee for correct material work.
  I think that Win7 drivers will be available soon.