Toshiba Satellite Pro NB10 A 10P not booting

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Toshiba Satellite Pro NB10 A 10P not booting 2017-04-13 11:24:36 Post No. 296784
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Toshiba Satellite Pro NB10 A 10P not booting Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:24:36 Post No. 296784 [Report]

Hey, folks. I'm having some trouble.

This is an old laptop that my friend got from their old college, and bought off them. They've not used it in some time and forgotten their old login. They asked me to take it back to Windows 7, from 8.

Well, I'm having trouble. I made a Win 7 bootable thumb drive, which works on everything except this little fucker.

It kept booting straight to the HDD and loading windows 8. I did the usual shit, change boot order and manually select the drive to boot from. Still no joy.

So I wiped the HDD totally and tried to make the HDD the bootable device, working from the logic that it'd work pretty much the same way as the thumb drive booting method. You know, Disk Part then putting the boot sector on the drive, along with the Windows 7 files.

Now I keep getting this meme and I'm not sure what to do. Could it be some security thing in the Bios?

Am I being an idiot and missing something totally obvious?

Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:28:34 Post No.296785
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Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:28:34 Post No.296785 [Report]

>>296784
>Am I being an idiot and missing something totally obvious?
Yes: the laptop came with Windows 8, so it boots with UEFI, not legacy.

If you want Windows 7, you need to either change it to legacy, or install off a physical DVD* of Windows 7 x64 and turn off secureboot.

* It's supposed to be able to boot UEFI off a stick, but I've never managed to get it to do it.

Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:34:19 Post No.296787
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Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:34:19 Post No.296787 [Report]

Ah, sorry, please forgive my ignorance. I've never worked with 8 before, for various reasons.

How do I change it to legacy? This thing doesn't have a disc drive, so I'm kinda boned in that regard.

Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:38:00 Post No.296790
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>>296787
It'll be in the BIOS somewhere. Sorry I can't be more specific.

Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:39:17 Post No.296793
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Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:39:17 Post No.296793 [Report]

>>296790

Hey, that's okay man. I appreciate the help. Thanks a bunch!

Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:59:05 Post No.296802
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Anonymous 2017-04-13 11:59:05 Post No.296802 [Report]

So I followed the guide to locating boot mode and there isn't one on here. It's supposed to be under advanced and system config. Secure boot is disabled. It's on Toshiba Set-up Utility 1.00 and UEFI and Legacy are nowhere to be found. Bugger.

Something is fucky. What do?

Anonymous 2017-04-14 12:19:27 Post No.296812
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Anonymous 2017-04-14 12:19:27 Post No.296812 [Report]

Oh dear. Well, I've found out I'm going to have to update the bios. Which means I'll have to reinstall 8 first.

Oh joy.

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