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My Toshiba Laptop cannot start Windows Vista? (specifically, freezes at 'Applying Final Configuration'?
FYI: This question is really long, so read only if you think you may have a possible answer. Thanks.
I want to know if my problem is hardware related or OS related.
I have a Toshiba laptop, model p205-s6337. Today I installed Windows Vista on it, because we have not used it for years because it crashed on us and we could not find the recovery discs. Today we found them.
I did NOT use the Microsoft Windows Anytime Upgrade DVD to install Vista. I used the two Toshiba Recovery and Applications Drivers Discs and started the Toshiba Recovery Wizard to install Vista. These discs can only be used with toshiba model p200/p205 series.
After my laptop erased all partitions on it, recovered to factory default, and then installed Vista, it boots up Vista, and after going through screens that say "Please wait a moment while Windows prepares to start for the first time...", "Please Wait", several black screens, and then the computer restarts and boots it up again, shows the Windows logo, and I see the desktop for a few seconds, until a window appears:
Applying Final Configuration
Please Wait
This may take several minutes
System will reboot upon configuration
DO NOT INTERRUPT(in red letters)
And then the screen goes blank and black, you can't even see the mouse. It's been that way for about an hour now; I'm still waiting for it to do something as I type these letters. I don't think it is doing anything, because I don't hear any noises from it. There is nothing external plugged into it except the power cable, no USB, no disc. I have tried reinstalling, but nothing changed, I have tried booting in safe mode, and a dialog box appears which says I cannot complete the installation in Safe Mode. The screen isn't truly turned off: It looks as if it would be in hibernate mode or something, but it isn't- I gave the mouse a jiggle now and then and nothing changes.
I don't know if something is wrong with the hardware of the laptop, or if it simply takes this long. I suspect something is wrong with the laptop, because it says it should only take a 'few minutes'