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I've got a Toshiba Equium P200-1IR in front of me just now. It hung up repeatedly on startup, and did the same in safe mode and startup repair mode. There's some HDD activity during the hangup, but it doesn't make any progress. OS is Vista 32-bit. I've repeatedly tried to reinstall from the manufactuer's disk. Partition restore goes OK, then it reboots to start Vista for the first time and becomes very, very slow, taking 1.5 hours to get even part way into startup.
I've reflashed the BIOS to no effect. Memory test reports no problems. Intriguingly, I can install and run Windows 7 Beta no problem. I can also successfully book Kubuntu 8.10 and Knoppix 3.9 from CD.
Anyone have any thoughts on this most bizarre and intriguing of problems? The usual searches of Google, manufacturers' website, Microsoft support, etc. have drawn a blank.
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I know some buggy USB drivers can cause extreme slow down problems on laptops. Does the BIOS let you disable devices? If so you can try to disable everything that is not needed to boot so see if that changes anything.
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Steve McConner wrote ...
The HDD might be on the way out. Try running a scan on it with your favourite LiveCD-based tools.
Could be worth a try, but I'd vote for the driver issue Bjorn pointed out. In general if one piece of software works fine (Win 7) and another doesn't (Vista), you'd suspect a software issue before hardware.
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It's sorted now. Thanks for the suggestions. I took the SATA Hard drive out of the laptop, installed it in another laptop, and installed Vista on it. Then I replaced the HDD in the original laptop, installed the appropriate drivers, and it works fine.
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Vista Very, Very, Very Slow to Restore/Reinstall on Laptop
