Recent content by meridius21

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    Toshiba A500 OS boot stall

    I'm going to answer the core of this which is related to the installation. The drive I used was a WD10JPVX which is AF (Advanced Format). Looking at this post you will see that the solution is to only use a non-AF HDD which I did and have now installed the recovery disks with no problem in...
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    Toshiba A500 OS boot stall

    OK, I have had numerous issues with this laptop most of which are not fun and have required a few late nights. First the internal screen and lcd cable were replaced. The default screen size should normally be 16" but this is not available where I live so we settled with a 15.6" Samsung model...