I decided to upgrade my Toshiba Tecra M5 laptop with Windows Vista, finally!
| The laptop has the logo "Designed for Windows XP, Windows Vista Capable". A laptop equipped with Windows Vista Capable meets minimum requirements of 512 MB RAM which does not necessarily mean you’ll be able to run all your Windows Vista applications. Rather Vista will deliver sub-XP performance. So I’m not sure how this logo needs to be interpreted.
Anyway, I downloaded Vista and started installing and got the error " |
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Even though the laptop is advertised Vista capable but still need a BIOS update. Why ?
pcsupport.toshiba.com where all the BIOS updates can be downloaded was down most of this morning and so no updates could be downloaded. Toshiba Tech Support told me that new drivers are uploaded to the website but I don’t understand why the complete website has to be down for that.
I found out about Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor from the recorded message at the Tech Support. So I downloaded that and got the same error "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor encountered an error while scanning your system. If the problem persist, you can uninstall and reinstall the latest version." I’m using the latest version available on their website so this error message makes no sense.
Finally, pcsupport.toshiba.com is now live and I found instructions on how to Upgrade to Windows Vista for Toshiba Tecra M5. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for and fortunately this document was posted on 3/28 (3 days ago). I’m going to follow the instructions here and provide an update later today.
I’m hoping my next blog will be from my upgraded Vista laptop but so far the experience has not been very pleasant. Fingers crossed!
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before you update from XP to VISTA you better play with one some where first, I dont like the way documents, Pictures And music Has been changed. Well as far as that goes I dont like nothing about it,
I just bought a new Toshiba lap top with vista on it , I’m going to ask them to take it off and replace it with XP
Comment by Alvin Iker — October 24, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
I am a webmaster using Windows XP. If I buy the Vista operating system, which one do you think is best for my needs: Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Ultimate or Vista Business?
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Comment by Kevin from Affiliate-Marketing101.com — August 14, 2008 @ 12:34 pm