Okay so for the past couple of days I have been on the quest to get myself a new lappy for free. Pretty much my younger sister had a Toshiba Satellite L305D sitting in the closet because the keyboard kept breaking on it and the parents had bought her a new one anyways.
So, I, knowing that the lappy is much better than the one I use, go to reformat and get it all back up in order. Here's the problem however...
Firstly, I install Ubuntu 11.04 (just because) from USB, formatting and overwriting the install on harddrive, making it the Primary and only OS install. Yaddah yaddah I had enough fun so now I wanted to install XP Pro 64bit (it has an AMD Turion X2 - 64bit). Everytime during setup/install process (all from USB as I had no blank media to burn the installs to) there would be an error, no matter what I did (tried many things, different versions, disk formatted, etc. etc.). So, now I go onto Windows 7 64bit. I made the bootable USB, everything fine, setup starts once I booted from USB. BUT, when choosing the disk to install Windows to setup would error stating "windows was unable to create/location partition". Again, booted from other USB drive and did various tries of formatting, wiping, etc. Now, when I tried again to install Windows 7 I chose option of "repair your computer". All told, now I believe my lappy thinks the drivers for the CD/DVD are actually ethernet controllers.
Someone help me... Ubuntu won't even install/boot again from USB and that has NEVER failed me until now.
BTW I did do some research and somehow Windows has a problem of completing setup if there are other HD's attached to your computer or even USB drives and I have yet to figure this out but at the moment can only hope for successful install from USB as the computer now thinks the CD/DVD is an ethernet controller.
P.S. The laptop was originally setup with Vista
Did Win7 Break Something?
I do not REALLY know what just happened BUT I let Ubuntu run from the USB for quite some time, just sat at the syslinux boot screen for a long time, finally just shut down the computer. However, I redid the USB to Win 7 again and for whatever reason, maybe boredom?, tried to install again. This time when I chose the disk to install on (usually would say the error message) it just proceeded like it should. Needless to say I am almost all done with first setups of the laptop.... craziness.