Alright, so I have confirmed, via a Google search that there several people out there who are having issues with installing Vista onto Toshiba laptop. I have no idea why this is happening and if there is a fix although I saw ONE person at one particular site claim he had a fix but did not share it but, I will continue my search.
So far I’ve tried doing a clean install using two different Vista install DVDs, both times it failed.
I tried doing an actual upgrade where I install XP Home first and then upgrade from within Windows – that failed.
The MAIN symptom that keeps appearing is that when you get to the Windows Vista splash screen where you have the scrolling indicator bar, it will make two passes and then on the third time it starts to scroll – it freezes.
I read somewhere that it has to do with a particular PCMCIA file. The solution was to delete those two files. I’m going to try and attach the hard drive to my bench and see if I can go in there and delete it and if it actually works. I will be back later.
Check out what I found: itsvista.com
As well as this: MS KB934559
I am pretty upset right now. What makes these laptops any different than the rest? Surely not the hardware – hmmm, I’m guessing it is though. There must be an issue with the actual motherboard chipset that is causing this problem to occur. The strange thing is there are laptop models listed on the KB that I know for a fact are able to have Vista installed onto them.
I’m having the same exact problem, any advice would be appreciated.
I even tried putting my HD in another laptop, running the install, then putting the HD back in my toshiba… didn’t work.
Eric
Eric,
Sorry but I have some bad news. It looks like at this time Vista is just incompatible with this particular laptop. I was not able to get Vista installed at all. Sorry about that.