Booting to WIN 7 on Toshiba laptop
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:42 am
Hallo BINGERS, we've been using BING on a laptop with WIN XP for 4 years now and had only one minor hiccup. And doing a weekly full-system back-up, we've been able to recover from a few attacks and blue screens within the hour. So BING has served us well.
This week we bought a Toshiba Satellite P770-118 laptop, which of course has all the Toshiba extras, i.e. 2 extra partitions.
It has the active boot partition, then WIN 7, then the recovery partition. I had every intention of installing BING, especially after having seen the horror stories on the Toshiba user forums, because if the Toshiba recovery process has to be used the machine is returned to day 1 status. (It might not be possible to employ the WIN 7 restore point.) Imagine having to re-input 4 years of installations and customisations on 3 accounts. So practically BING is my only approach.
I installed BING on Tosh and after booting, quickly ran into WIN blue screens. I can't detail what happened, but I'm assuming that it should be straightforward to set up BING correctly.
I've assumed that the boot process is BIOS > BING Boot Menu > EMBR > active partition > WIN 7.
If that is correct, then I can only assume I haven't set up parameters in BING correctly.
Assuming I've got the 'Add Menu Item' set up ok, does anybody have suggestions as to what else I might be missing?
As a for instance, the first time, boot to the active partition from the boot menu OR to reboot from the BIOS?
(As an afterthought to all this, BING gets installed in disc space between WIN 7 and Recovery partitions. So BING would appear 3rd in the Partitions list initially. Would it be necessary to move the Recovery partition up one place in the list, moving BING to 4th? We don't want to fool Tosh.)
AND, has anybody else had problems with the Toshiba extras?
Thanks for any wise suggestions(!), Steve.
This week we bought a Toshiba Satellite P770-118 laptop, which of course has all the Toshiba extras, i.e. 2 extra partitions.
It has the active boot partition, then WIN 7, then the recovery partition. I had every intention of installing BING, especially after having seen the horror stories on the Toshiba user forums, because if the Toshiba recovery process has to be used the machine is returned to day 1 status. (It might not be possible to employ the WIN 7 restore point.) Imagine having to re-input 4 years of installations and customisations on 3 accounts. So practically BING is my only approach.
I installed BING on Tosh and after booting, quickly ran into WIN blue screens. I can't detail what happened, but I'm assuming that it should be straightforward to set up BING correctly.
I've assumed that the boot process is BIOS > BING Boot Menu > EMBR > active partition > WIN 7.
If that is correct, then I can only assume I haven't set up parameters in BING correctly.
Assuming I've got the 'Add Menu Item' set up ok, does anybody have suggestions as to what else I might be missing?
As a for instance, the first time, boot to the active partition from the boot menu OR to reboot from the BIOS?
(As an afterthought to all this, BING gets installed in disc space between WIN 7 and Recovery partitions. So BING would appear 3rd in the Partitions list initially. Would it be necessary to move the Recovery partition up one place in the list, moving BING to 4th? We don't want to fool Tosh.)
AND, has anybody else had problems with the Toshiba extras?
Thanks for any wise suggestions(!), Steve.