fixing a laptop for a friend and ran into a issue. the hdd in the pc crashed and they bought a new WD 5000LPLX 500GB sata drive. upon replacing the hdd and running windows 7 installer on the new pc via bootable usb, the installation freezes at the windows logo. i then tried to run it via cd and same issue. so i took the drive out and placed it in a dell pc and ran the installer fine via the usb. placed the drive back into the toshiba and got the "Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media." after struggling with this i looked and noticed that the bios was 1.1 for this pc and the most up to date version is 5.0. ive tried making a bootable dos usb drive and constantly get the "Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media" message. at this point im not sure how to get this drive imaged with window 7. now if i put the old drive back in it will attempt to read it but since the drive is clicking nothing happens. so at this point im lost. anyone experienced this before?
Toshiba Satellite L15W-B1302 Boot Issue
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captaincharisma
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how big (in GB) is the other HDD you tried in it? have you tried going into safe mode by getting to the advanced menu by tapping the F8 key before windows loads.
all of the hdd's ive used were 500GB the only difference between the hdd's are the brands. they all have been same rpm's same GB, even same physical size. the F8 key does nothing. the only keys that work are F2 for BIOS which is extremly outdated (1.1) and the F12 button to get to boot menu. Which the boot menu is blue and only shows 3 option of HDD USB and Enter Setup. Ive even changed the secure boot to off and after i change that theres no UEFI or other boot options. If i could manage to bet the BIOS updated i probably would have a better chance at fixing this issue but i cannot get a USB thats bootable to work with the one exception of the windows 7 boot usb i made, and it freezes on the windows logo.
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hmm, the laptop is only a few years old so the chance its an issue with the BIOS not supporting the new drive is unlikely. maybe its time to look into the idea the HDD might not have been the issue after all. at any time did you try the crashed hard drive in another PC?
due to not having a clean room, i cannot open the drive to try and fix it. out off all the drives ive ever had with this same issue, ive only fixed one. but i do believe its a BIOS issue. i just need to figure out how to flash the bios via usb. the bios is on 1.1 and doesnt have CSM. seems Toshiba implemented CSM on 1.2 and above.
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with your current windows 7 disk i would check the boot order or the boot menu to see if you can see an option that has UEFI at the beginning of it. if not there is a way to create a UEFI windows 7 install disk
here is a link to instructions on how to make a bootable version of windows 7 for a UEFI BIOS.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/186875-uefi-unified-extensible-firmware-interface-install-windows-7-a.html
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