Re: Downgrade trouble with Satellite A100, please help

[Guest Gordon]

"Hashpatung" wrote in message

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>

> Hi everyone,

>

> Since lat week that I decided to downgrade my Satellite A100-AV9 from

> vista to XP using original XP media of another model of Satellite A100 I

> used to have, I've been having a nightmare.

>

> I tried a clean install via both options the CD offered: Recover to out

> of box state" and erasing hard drive first and installing XP using "out

> of box" option. What happens is that as soon as XP boots up, for a sec

> the Windows XP screen shows up but suddenly crashes and after a brief

> blue screen a message says that the Window failed to boot up and waits

> for me to whether restart or go to safe mode, and no matter what I chose

> it crashes again.

> So I use a genuine software from Toshiba intended for an A100 to

> downgrade another A100 and it bitterly fails, so what's going on?

> please help!

>

>

 

Are they different MODELS of A100? Is the original media a Recovery CD

rather than a proper Windows XP CD, and if so, it may very well be BIOS

locked to the original A100...

If what you have is a recovery disk, try borrowing an ordinary XP CD and see

if that works...

 

PS - this is obviously not a Vista problem so I've crossposted to an XP

group to help you....