Posted on 09/05/2012 9:02:46 AM PDT by GeronL
My Toshiba Satellite L305 has crapped out. It did not come with the reinstallation disk. I can get a new hard drive but I need an O/S. It is too old to run Windows 7, which I can't really afford.
Does anyone know where I can buy a Windows Vista Home Premium (or sumtin') disk or product key for a good price?
back before anyone had heard of a Gigabyte, right?
OK. It’s out of the shop.
The old hardrive says TOSHIBA, so I guess they make their own? The new one is Seagate.
The reciept has the serial #, although they are right, its pretty much rubbed off. If you hold it to the light at an angle you can almost make it out. lol.
Hopefully this is the info I’ll need to get an installation disk.
I will now attempt to start a computer with a blank HD and hopefully load Linux onto it.
Oh, yeah. The one I'm thinking of was actually external to (and the same size as) the PC.
A few years later, my brother-in-law had a PC on which he ran his gardening business and he was quite proud that it had a hard disk. The way he used the term was a little confusing till I found out he meant a 3-1/2" floppy (cause it was "harder" than the standard 5-1/4")
It did not read USB on boot, but it looks like Puppy Linux CD will work.
Posting from Puppy Linux live CD.
Weird using 2 computers at the same time
So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?
So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?
So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?
So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?
So now the question is, do I turn it off and go to the BiOS (F2?) and tell it to load the USB? Or can I install Ubuntu while I am running Puppy Linux?
I’ll be trying to get this working tonight. It’s running Puppy just fine at the moment though.
Hopefully I can get stuff of the old HD
Tonight I need to install Ubuntu or something on the new one.
I hope I can get that installation disk from Toshiba too.
LOL - I just now got down to this post after reading through the thread.
I’m not sure on if you can install Ubuntu while running Puppy - I would think so, but you should make sure it’s installed to a different partition - otherwise the system will crash when it needs to read a puppy file that was overwritten by Ubuntu.
I’m not a Linux guy, so I can’t really help on that. I’m sure another FReeper that has Linux experience can help.
You can always go to the bios and change boot order to the USB drive if the bios supports that. Then you can boot to the USB drive and load Ubuntu without worrying about puppy linux.
Well, I did make USB second on the boot order and left the CD slot empty, why didn’t that work? I guess I didn’t make the USB bootable somehow, just having the ISO doesn’t do anything, how do I make it bootable?
The harddrive not being recognzed is still worrying me.
According to some of the things in the Toshiba forums, some of the new HD’s won’t work, the Advanced Format ones. What is that about? Would the idiots at Geek Squad install an HD that is incompatible?
Probably too early to tell if this relates to me.
The one they installed is a Seagate 500 GB, 7200 RPM HD
For future reference.
I cannot post at the Toshiba Forums with this horrible browser that came with Lucid Puppy Linux.
The disc is not CD-RW so it’d be hard to add it, lol.
Cd not required. The program uses the ISO image. Does, however, require a functioning computer to create the bootable pen drive. Guess that’s why I used the word future. (;> Used it for my netbook.
The Seagate 500GB is most likely Advanced Format (AF) [able to read/write very large drives using smaller bits].
It also is 7200 RPM. I think that your system is limited to 5400 RPM. I’m trying to find the specs on it now.
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