Toshiba S135-S2356 failed recovery Vista - need windows installation disk

Hi,
My Toshiba S135-S2356 recovery failed. Now it says ' insert your windows installation disk and restart your computer' . I have the Toshiba recovery and Application cd /drivers satelitte a130/a135 series windows vista home basic 32 bit CD but it won't start Window. It also said something about winload.exe . What should I do? Thanks

It sounds like your recovery discs may be bad. You might need to order new recovery media or have your laptop serviced.
- Peter

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Windows failed to start: Insert Windows installtion disk?

Satellite A205-S5843
Windows Update the night before. Next day, the browser was stalling. Eventually Task Manager reported Web Site Browser was not running. I closed down all programs and hit Restart. At the restart all that came on was a small image like when an image is loading. It continued for 20 minutes. None of the buttons would do anything, not even the power button or escape button. I finally unplugged the machine. Now when I turn on the power, I get the following message...
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Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disk and restart your computer.
2. Choose language settings. Click next.
3. Click "Repair your computer"
file: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000001
Info: An error occurred whi;e attempting to read the boot configuration data.
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Things I have tried:
Disks. I do not have the Windows disk. The recovery disk I made and filed when I purchased the machine gave the same error.
Various button combinations. F8 key + power button. 0 (zero) key + power button. F2 and F12 are the only buttons I can access. I tried Reset to Defaults. Same results on power start.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Recovering to the factory default setup, and rebuilding from there, while not always necessary, is still a good thing every now and then, especially if your system has become quite messed up or corrupted.
I am glad you were able to work it out with your Toshiba Recovery disks. In double checking your specs, it would seem your system never came with the Recovery Partition on your hard drive. Otherwise, there would have been the Toshiba Recovery Media Creator program listed on your pre-installed software, which it is not. So, keep those Recovery Disks safe, and maybe think of making disk copies of each to have a spare.
See these instructions to aid in the upgrade to Windows 7, if any problems persist try the Toshiba Windows 7 Software Installer
How to upgrade to Windows 7 with the Toshiba Upgrade Assistant
Toshiba tools to simplify the Windows 7 installation process (Toshiba Upgrade Assistant for Win7 and Toshiba Win7 Software Installer)
You are very welcome. And, thank you for letting us know what worked. We very much appreicate it when people get back to us, as most do not.
Let us know how it all turns out. Good luck.
Mike

Toshiba provide a WIndows installation disk?

I just went to an excessively LONG -out of the box- restore, that took 20 times longer than a normal Windows installation should of. Does Toshiba offer a windows installation disk or image file compatible with their Windows 7 upgrade disk?
Or would a 32bit Windows Vista image upgrade properly to a 64bit Windows 7 disk?
I have the CD-Keys for both...

Hi,
sounds interesting, but I dont think that toshiba will do that, because they already give the windows on recovery cd to every machine you buy from them.
So, why should they do that?
Maybe other manufacturer do that, but the quality of their notebooks and computers are probably not so good, so they must give software away, that customers dont return the
computers and buy some better like a toshiba. ;)
So a definitive answer to your question: No they wont.
greets

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I have about 8 different burners on my systems, and some will read DVD's better than others will. On my workstation, I have one LG and one Plextor. The LG does the best, and when it fails, the Plextor usually can read. When this happens, I just do a Copy from the drive that can read the disc, to the other drive, using Verbatim, or Taiyo Yuden blank media. If neither can read, I have six others to try. Sometimes, it's just the burner.
One little hint would be to make sure that your burner's firmware is updated to the very latest. That can improve the burner's ability to read from a slightly damaged disc.
Otherwise, contact Adobe. For many programs, they sell replacement media. Do not know if there are version limitations, but one call should give you what is available.
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Bootcamp won't read windows installer disk

hey guys, I have a macbook pro, I just downloaded windows 7 from microsoft, I burned a dvd with the files and I partitioned my disk, but i can't install the windows because bootcamp won't read the disk. I get the following message: the installer disk cannot be found. Insert your windows installer disk and wait a few minutes ti be recognized...
What is wrong?

If it's an .iso, you need to open it in Disk Utility, then burn it from there. If you just put a bunch of files onto optical media, then it won't boot. You need to use something like Roxio Toast to burn a bootable disk from files. It knows what needs to be added and how the files should be arranged.
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Hi there,
I have a imac mid 2010, as said im trying to install windows 8.1 onto it but my disk keeps getting spat out after I put it in when asked for via the bootcamp installation. Now I know the disk works 100% as I have put it in another computer and booted it, also this happens with a windows 7 disk i have.
I have sort of tested the super drive by putting a random music CD which gets read fine and plays fine.
Does anyone know of anything to do with this?
or how I could test the super drive further?
Thanks in advanced.

Hey guys,
I haven't fixed the specific problem but I found a work around. Sorry if these instructions are hard to read any questions please let me know,
I wanted to make this post just out of courtesy of chscag being the only one the has helped me across many forums.
So hopefully I can edit and paste this fix into my 1st post and maybe get the tittle change to the thread because this is actually a windows 8.1 process and I'm not sure if it will work for other versions of windows.
NOTE: I'm not sure how good I am at explaining things here I just thought I would get this info down as I found it really tough and took me some time to get windows on my machine. So if you have any question please feel free to ask.
To start off forget everything in this thread!! Also remember I have a Imac 27" mid 2010 with a super drive that doesn't seem to work.
So here is what you need according to the way I managed to do this...
1. Windows 8.1 (either a downloaded iso or a install disk)
2. USB over 4gb
3. Another windows computer with access to the internet
I think these are the basic things you will need off the top of my head right now.
So step 1
This step is if you have a windows 8.1 disk.
If you find that when you run the bootcamp your superdrive doesn't accept your windows 8.1 disk then you need to do the following.
Get your windows disk and go to another windows computer (I'm sure you could do this on a mac os as well but I'm not mac savvy so I prefer to do this on a windows computer).
Now we are trying to get the iso image and burn it on to our windows computer. So we are going to need some software for this, I used Download | BurnAware
1. Install this software which I think is pretty simple.
2. Once installed run the software, click on copy to image.
3. You need to set where you are going to copy this iso file from. So put your windows disk in and then from source please select your optical disk drive. (The disk may auto run, So just let it do it's thing and the 1st chance you get to cancel the installation do it and quit out of the application)
4. Now under destination select browse, Navigate to to where you want to save this iso file, (I made a folder on my desktop for easier finding) then name it something like windows8 and then click save.
5. Now click copy
6. Wait until this process is done, once it's done you can close the application and your iso image should be where you selected to save it when doing step number 4.
Feel free to remove the software after you have done this if you want.
Now that we have a iso image we need to get to this onto a bootable usb drive.
Lets prepare our USB 1st...
1. Plug your USB into your windows computer.
2 .Important!!! Back up everything on this USB if you have files you wish to keep on this USB, After the next step all your files will be deleted that are on this USB.
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I used this, get the free trial and install it. ISO CD DVD image creator, editor and ISZ DMG DAA UIF to ISO converter - UltraISO can extract/create/edit/convert CD and DVD image files directly, make bootable CDs and convert ISZ DMG DAA UIF to ISO.
Now make sure you your USB is inserted.
1. Go to the ISO file that you burned to your windows, Double click it this should bring up a dialogue box from the software we just downloaded.
2. Click continue to try.
3. Now you should see your ISO loaded into this software, if it looks confusing don't worry just do as I say and you should be fine.
4. Up the top you should see, File, Actions and Bootable.
5. Click Bootable.
6. Go down to the 4th option and click "Write Disk Image"
7. A write disk image box should pop up.
8. Under disk drive make sure your USB is selected. (Don't need to click the verify box)
9. Double check next to image file it should your image path. (CUsers\yourcomputer\desktop\windows8.iso)
10. Go to write method and make sure it says USB-HDD+
11. Then hit write, this will bring up a box saying warning all your on this drive will be lost click yes.
Now it will burn the iso image this make take some time. Wait Until it says Burn Successful.
If that confused you please watch this video on how to use the software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApRK8av2IOI
Now you can remove the software if you wish. Also safely remove your USB stick and you also can take out your windows disk. (We won't need to the windows computer again)
Now boot up your mac.
1. Go to disk utility
2. Go to your mac os on the left hand side and make sure it is selected.
3. Go to partition hit the plus( +) button, this should make another partion maybe named like MAC OS 2 or something similar.
4. Make this partition the size you want your windows HDD to be, do this by dragging the partition.
5. hit partition
6. Now go to the partition tab again, make sure you have the MAC OS 2 partition selected and hit the Minus(-) button. Now you should see that your MAC OS 2 is deleted and it just free space.
7.Hit partition
Wait until this is done.
Now everything is prepared we can begin the windows install.
You need to reboot your computer and when you hear the chimes or see a white screen you need to press and hold your option key on your keyboard until you see your boot menu.
Should be like 3 disc. Your mac OS and a EFI disk and a recovery disk.
Select your EFI disk and Windows should start to install as normal.
And that is it. Again I'm not sure how good I am at explaining things here I just thought I would get this info down as I found it really tough and took me some time to get windows on my machine. So if you have any question please feel free to ask.

Need another installation disk

Dear Fellow Mac users,
I cannot find the installation disk that came with my MBP. Unfortunately my HD is corrupt and requires repair. I cannot proceed to repair it without an installation disk that came with my MBP.
I need answers to the following questions:
Can I create an installation disk using a DVD from my MBP?
If yes, then how do I do it?
If no, then how do I get another installation disk?
My Hardware overview:
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Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
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L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
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Hi and welcome,
One way is to save a recover set ... with OKR ... or better do this Backup before ...but no way to get a pure Windows 7 Install Disc if you mention this ...
And Windows 7 64 Bit will not run on Atom based machine.. i.e. S10/S10e/S10-2 ,S12 Intel/Nvidia ...
(and even when, it lacks of memory 2GB (due the intel chipset restrictions) is good for 32 Bit based systems, but not really enough for 64 Bit based systems, so there is no benefit for use a 64bit on a netbook)
S10-3t W7 64 ?
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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Downloads here.
Best to restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery discs. All the drivers and utilities are properly installed. Obtain the discs from Toshiba by scrolling down to Get Recovery Media here.
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