Toshiba Windows 7 Install Issue

[trewyn15]

Hello all, I just purchased a Toshiba Portege M780.

I replaced the hard drive with a 500GB Seagate drive and now I am trying to boot the install from a flash drive.

When I start up the laptop it shows the Toshiba display and then it goes to a page that displays:

Insert system disk in drive. Press any key when ready.

It continues to show this when I press a key. The drive is a mounted ISO file of Windows 7 64-bit. Not sure why I am having an issue.

Anyone have any ideas? Not 100% BIOS familiar so some info there may help.

Thanks

 

[Demon10000]

Follow the sticky at the top of this forum to create a working install disk. Sounds like you just copied the files to the USB drive but didn't run bootsect.

 

[trewyn15]

Got the install to work on my own, however I'm having driver issues. The wi-fi driver is the one I'm having the most trouble with.

That's the only on I'm worried about at this point.

It opens, I click 'Run'. It opens the Toshiba Archive Extractor, I hit start, it extracts, it shows up in the task bar as if it's running for a second and then it disappears.

Any ideas as to why this one may be happening?

 

[bigdogchris]

What I suggest doing is installing 7-Zip, then right clicking the .exe (or whatever it is) and extracting the contents. Then go into Device Manager and click on the Wif-Fi adapter and choose to update driver and point to the folder you extracted.

 

[trewyn15]

Will do, I'm getting annoyed with bouncing my flash drive back and forth ahha

I'll have to do that if my current method isn't working.

Thanks

 

[trewyn15]

Alright, it was extracting the file to a random spot.

I'm posting from the laptop now so the internet is working well.

Now to hunt down all the other drivers lol

 

[trewyn15]

Thanks for the input guys, I think I have all the drivers installed..

now for the fun:

I also have no clue where the hell the original stick of RAM is... I'm guessing under my keyboard, but no logical way to remove that, or at least that I can tell by looking at it right now lol

That and dust behind the touch panel, I'll have to pull that tomorrow as well.