The culprit-
Older cheap Toshiba Core2Duo laptop originally Vista upgraded to Win7. Recently, windows has been warning of imminent HD death, Spinrite confirmed.
The victim-
Me! I did not want to put any $$$ into this machine, but was convinced by the wife that a $90 hybrid drive was worth it.....WRONG!
What the !@#$ happened?-
Get the drive, turn off the pc (unplug and pull battery). Remove old but still functional 320gb and insert new 500gb. Boot to win7 disk and begin fresh install. Install stalls at black screen (with back light on). Wait ~1 hr, no progress so power down and restart. Can hear pc boot, but no screen and no back light. No reason for this at all. After many retries, I press on power button for very long time and screen comes on...YAY! Start install again. Now get widows didn't start correctly error screen, instructions on screen always lead back to same screen (0xb0000068 or 0xc0000001?). Nothing working, so I decide to put back in the previous damaged but still functional drive. Won't boot. If you try to "boot normally" it boot loops, if you choose repair you get same options as new drive with not actually repair available. Tried old vista recovery disk, same results. Right now, I'm making a insall usb drive, in case this is all a problem with the optical drive (not likely). My guess is that the drive wasn't failing, the sata interface or some other component was ?
Can you help?
PLEASE?:banghead::banghead:
Older cheap Toshiba Core2Duo laptop originally Vista upgraded to Win7. Recently, windows has been warning of imminent HD death, Spinrite confirmed.
The victim-
Me! I did not want to put any $$$ into this machine, but was convinced by the wife that a $90 hybrid drive was worth it.....WRONG!
What the !@#$ happened?-
Get the drive, turn off the pc (unplug and pull battery). Remove old but still functional 320gb and insert new 500gb. Boot to win7 disk and begin fresh install. Install stalls at black screen (with back light on). Wait ~1 hr, no progress so power down and restart. Can hear pc boot, but no screen and no back light. No reason for this at all. After many retries, I press on power button for very long time and screen comes on...YAY! Start install again. Now get widows didn't start correctly error screen, instructions on screen always lead back to same screen (0xb0000068 or 0xc0000001?). Nothing working, so I decide to put back in the previous damaged but still functional drive. Won't boot. If you try to "boot normally" it boot loops, if you choose repair you get same options as new drive with not actually repair available. Tried old vista recovery disk, same results. Right now, I'm making a insall usb drive, in case this is all a problem with the optical drive (not likely). My guess is that the drive wasn't failing, the sata interface or some other component was ?
Can you help?
PLEASE?:banghead::banghead: