Laptop problem...

[Azza_]

Just bought a toshiba satellite pro l300 off a mate tonight. He just upgraded the ram to 2gb, and said the laptop needed rebooted. I wasnt bothred by this as i was installing windows 7 from a usb anyway.

So i changed the boot order to usb and the install screen begins. However it will not get passed the setup is starting screen. I then tried to run the vista that was already on it and after 2 minutes it finally reaches the install screen for that but again fails.

Could this be due to the new ram? I know that windows 7 usb works as does on other computers. It just seems to run the install screen very bery slow.

Any ideas?

[Brenz]

So its installing very slowly ?

Could be the USB Controller isnt working correctly, could be the USB stick itself has been damaged.

Could you try a Windows 7 Disk ?

[Azza_]

Cheers, turned out to be the hard drive. Replaced it and runs sweet now