Reload Windows XP on Portege R100

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• 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.

• Optical USB mouse problem with Portege R100 on windows XP

  We have three laptops Toshiba Portege R100 currently giving problems with mouse optical usb from Toshiba.

  When starting the laptop, that the mouse is not recognized by windows. Before and after will be identified in the mouse will not respond while Burns led.

  The mouse will be recognized after re - plug in the USB port.

  We have updated versions of bios to the latest version. (1.4)

  Another mouse (USB optical) works OK without problem.

  We have removed the drivers and reinstalled by windows plug-and-play process, but it does not work.

  Is this a known issue?

  Thanks in advance

  Hello
  would it be possible that the USB mouse has high power consumption?

  As far as I know, there are a load of maximum intensity for each USB Port.

  Do you know how much power (intensity) needs to this mouse?

  Good bye

• 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! :)

• Windows XP Setup stops with "Stop 0x0000007B" on Portege R100

  I have a Portege R111, but it is the same model as R100. I am trying to install WinXp on it, with a lot of problems.
  I have no CD to recover, but as I've read, it's possible.

  I use a PCMCIA-cd/dvd player. It starts fine, but after I get a blue screen with the error "* Stop 0x0000007B."
  On the microsoft home page, I've read a lot about this
  [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103/en]

  It seems that it is a problem with my hd, so I disassembled the 1.8 "HD and connected to my normal pc. Here, I could install WinXP without any problem.
  Then I reassembled the hd (with the top winxp system), but guess what, it doesn't. I just get get the menu in what mode I want to boot into windows (safe mode, safe mode with network,...). Whatever mode I select screen freezes after.

  I tried to run a normal linux (ram only) on it to see if that works. But it's not. The screen freezes while trying to load the kernel modules.

  Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

  Hi guys

  Portege R100 supports the recovery through the BIOS (by pressing 'C') with (16-bit and Cardbus) PCMCIA cards.
  Sequence of disks and controllers (PCMCIA) might work:
  (a) Toshiba, PX1055E-1NST SN: 3431490096 with PC Card (16 bit), II cable, PCMCIA, Rev.043.242
  (b) Toshiba, PX1055E-1NST with a CardBus, cable II, CARD BUS, Rev.136

  The drive used in conjunction with the PCMCIA controller is not so important due to the fact that the driver in the BIOS must allow the controller first. There is a generic CD-ROM drive implemented in the BIOS for the connected player. The "PC Card controller Mode" settings in the BIOS has been 'Automatic Selection '.
  This means that you have nothing to change in the BIOS, because it is the default value.

  It could happen, to connect the power supply in certain circumstances, for example:
  Battery is charged too less.
  The PCMCIA supplies unless energy location.
  If a player is used with a built in battery, please always connect an appropriate adapter.

• 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

• 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 and Windows 7

  Hello

  I have a portege R100, which, with the new 1 GB memory is very good. I want to update from XP to Win7.
  All the world does? Any suggestion? Win 7 slow down the system?

  Richy

  If I undestand you, you have only 1 GB of memory? If you do, I'm sorry, but your system would be slow as hell. 2 GB is a minimum in my opinion.

• Portege R100 will not start up CD

  I have a r100 and has now no OS and worse still it used to boot from external cd please can someone advise me how can I reload windows xp and have my computer back

  Hello

  What external hard drive that you are using?
  I read in this forum of Toshiba that not all external drives are compatible.
  You need a support if you want to boot from the CD!

  You know the knowledge base of Toshiba?
  I studied at this page and found this article:

  Portege R100 taken care of recovery disks
  http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB5100S70004R01.htm

• USB 2.0 blue screens on Portege R100

  Hello
  I have a Portege R100, when you insert a USB 2.0 device it blue screens and you can t do something. But if you insert a USB 1.1 device, he is very well, I tried the upgrade to Windows XP sp2 and this t hasn't helped any ideas.

  Thansks

  Hello

  Try to remove the USB entries in Device Manager, and then restart the device. The ports should be recognized and installed correctly. In my view, it cannot happen without any reason. It will be interesting to know since when this problem started.

• PORTEGE R100 CD-ROM recovery problem

  Hi, I had a few problems of recovery PORTEGE R100. My problem is that when I try to reinstall the system with the recovery of the boot disk CD, it does not recognize the CD. The CD-ROM is not a TOSHIBA product. Is there any solution for this?

  Hello

  It will be interesting to know if your external CD is a USB or PCMCIA device.

  You must make a Windows startup disk and add drivers for your CD-ROM BACK drive and then you should be able to recover the machine with this CD.

• Portege R100 and Linux - function keys not working do not and the latest version of the BIOS?

  Hello world

  I have a Portege R100 (PPR10L-13G10P). I am trying to install Linux and when you try to access function keys (F6) the computer does not allow me to... no idea why?

  Also, what is the latest version of BIOS for this computer? And where it can be downloaded?

  Thanks in advance!

  Terrence

  Hello

  At first, I must say that Toshiba doesn't support Linux in general if you are alone with this problem.
  I hope that someone will be able to help you a bit.
  If you want to discover the latest version of the BIOS, just enter the BIOS settings and check it out.
  BIOS version latest won't help you at all, so my opinion is that you shouldn't change anything.

  Anyway, the bio download page is - http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_bios.jsp

  The feature keys F is supported by special tool Windows and it only works on Windows.

• 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

• Configuration and closing the new disk for Portege R100

  I just set up a new 40 GB HDD in my Portege r100. I think I need to format the disk before that it will work. How to do this please? I downloaded and installed the latest version of the bios

  Hello

  If the HARD drive is already detected in Windows Explorer, right-click on it and select format. If this isn't the case, you can use programs like Partition Magic or even your recovery CD to do a first formatting. If you use the recovery CD, the OS will install again, so you have to format the HARD drive again with Explorer.

  Good bye

• A few questions about the Portege R100 upgrade

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Portege R100 of America with 768 MB of RAM, 40 GB HDD, DVD-ROM on the PCMCIA card. I want to renew the Windows XP Pro Notebook by updating the material.

  -How can I update a larger HARD drive?
  -What RAM should I update?
  -Can I upgrade the processor?

  Thank you for your help.

  holger112

  Hello

  You cannot switch the processor!

  You can upgrade the HD, but because it is an interface 1.8 "HD with an ide (50 pin ATA) the best you can find is a 60 GB HD (Toshiba MK6006GAH 60 GB) you can find them on ebay for a reasonable price

  You can easily switch from memory with a module 1 GB pc2700-dimm ddr1 (like kingston or corsair) in replacement of the module of 512 MB to a maximum of 1.2 GB.

  You can buy them everywhere

  Also note:

  install XP on a R100 is not very easy, but you can find lots of information on this forum, as here:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232

  success