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U305-S7477 recovery disk - strange problem

post #1 of 3
7/6/09 at 2:51am
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Decided to to a clean re-install of Vista, put in a new hd and ran the recovery -it finished, but instead of asking me to choose a user name and password it gave two options, one for administrator, which it said was disabled, and another to input a pre-existing user name and password, which of course I did not have, since it is a new install. What gives? Does Toshiba want me to only run this on top of a pre-existing OS install so it can grab the user info? That would be very obnoxious, IMHO - drives die and OS's crap out (especially Vista.)

All in all, I would prefer to simply install XP, but have not managed to do that successfully either - any advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
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post #2 of 3
7/6/09 at 7:41am
Strange indeed with the prompts. I personally feel that Vista has come a long way now to be even labelled "crap" , actually it is very good with the latest updates.

You can try using the XP driver set of the A135 and see if it is compatible to your model. Keep in mind that many special utilities might not run correctly - or at all - outside Vista.

On the same note, would you give us a personal review of your notebook?
http://www.notebookforums.com/my-reviews.html

cheers ...
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post #3 of 3
7/8/09 at 11:21pm
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Thanks - glad you've had better luck with Vista than I have; for me, the build that came with my machine just wasn't stable or robust enough to be a usable OS. I supported 6000 Xp/Win2000 machines in a corporate environment that did pretty well, so either this one machine is a fluke or MS really took a step backward... but never mind, this is an old discussion already.

I didn't really want Vista anyway, and with the hassles making an XP install that has the right drivers, I ended up deciding to try the release candidate of Win 7. It's only been a few days, which of course is much too soon to really tell, but so far it's been very stable, clearly uses less RAM that Vista, and the only thing that doesn't run is Toshiba's HDD protection utility, which I can live without until they release a new version. (I think Bluetooth drivers will also be needed, but I don't use Bluetooth so haven't bothered.)
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