Win 7 won't boot
Trying to reinstall win 7 on a friends toshiba L505-s5983 and it is giving me pure unadulterated ..... I get the windows logo and then a black screen then finally a set up screen asking for country info user name etc. it is extremely slow and then it loops back to the beginning again... sometimes. Been at this for a couple of weeks off and on with no success. At some point I have gotten the toshiba configuration screen but that's it. Occasionally I can get it to boot in safe mode. The install is from a Best Buy recovery disc and they want an additional 190 buck to fix it. Whatever IT is ??!! Help.
Are you aware that there is a recovery partition on the hard drive that will return the machine to its out-of-box configuration? See the Recovery section of the User's Guide for complete instructions to perform the recovery. The User's Guide is at Start/All Programs/My Toshiba/User's Guide.
Toshiba download site doesn't show a L505-S5983 but there is a S5982 and S5984! Strange. In any event if you will go to that site (URL below) for L505-S5982, you can see all sorts of info that is probably mostly applicable to that model also, including the User's Guide in case you are unable to get it on his machine.
Incidentally, he should have made recovery disks also as extra insurance when he first bought the machine. I'm assuming he did not; hence, your use of Best Buy disks. If, in the end, none of this works, the recovery disks you use should be the ones made by Toshiba and available for sale for a nominal shipping and handling charge. Since Best Buy disks aren't working, I would ask them for my money back.
C.B.
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From whatever little I've researched on this, it seems Parallels can screw up the boot.ini file. Apparently it makes changes to boot.ini which are fine for running Windows in Parallels, but not in Bootcamp. Well, whatever...... I think I'll just have to do a reinstall, and hope I have better luck than you.
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