Toshiba Laptop A215-s7413 New Hard Drive cannot ruin recovery cds or windows installs

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2014-07
  • ScottCooper27

    So I just ordered a new drive for my Toshiba laptop. I cannot for the life of me get windows or the restore disks to load they always just crash or stop halfway through. I have tired taking out a stick of ram different hard drives. Formatting the drive etc and etc. I don't have any bios options to change the Hard Drive settings just which order to boot. I have spent more than 4-5 hours on this am I missing something.

    Does Toshiba encrypt there HD so you can only use the original? Is my cd drive bad?

    • Answers
  • Gaurav Joseph

    Try using a Windows Install USB you can get the app here:

    http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe


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  • Rick M

    I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop. It would not start Windows XP or Vista.

    I did a diagnostic and it indicated that the hard drive had a problem.
    I replaced the hard drive with a Hitachi SATA 320 GB.

    I ran the diagnostics again and no problems were found. I ran the original Dell Drivers and Utilities DVD which set up the (3) partitions. I then tried to re-install Vista from the original CD.

    It gets part way through the start up and then freezes at exactly the same place every time.

    So, I tried to do the same with a Windows XP install disk and a Windows 7 disk.
    They all froze before getting to any Windows screen.

    • I updated the BIOS
    • I tried default bios settings
    • I tried changing the SATA operation from AHCI to ATA
    • I tried UBCD which - runs most of the utilities fine but I'm not sure what to do with them.

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  • Moab

    I would run a memory tester http://www.memtest.org/

    Download the prebuilt ISO, burn it to CD as an Image (not data), boot from that CD and run the memory test for a couple of hours or overnight to stress test the memory. If you get errors with this test you have a bad memory module, if you have more than one memory module installed remove all but one and re-run the test, test each module individually until you find the bad one.