How to Install Windows 7 on Toshiba Portege

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Hello,
The Toshiba Portege R500 is currently marked the record as the lightest 12.1 inch notebook in the world with under 800g weight. With 19.5 millimeters, or 5.25 millimeters in height and R500 is one of the slimmest notebook currently associated with a 7 mm optical slim DVD Super Multi drive equipped as are the first network-independent and provides work for up to 8 hours battery life. The transreflective 12.1 "widescreen display offers even in strong light outdoors is a brilliant, high contrast image. Moreover, the current models have a built 3G/UMTS-Modul.

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Technical specifications :

- Intel ® Centrino ® processor technology Intel ® Core 2 Duo low voltage processor U7700
- Intel ® Wireless WiFi ™ Link 4965AGN network connection
- Intel ® 945GMS Express Chipset with Intel ® GMA 950 graphics
- 2 GB DDR2 RAM (667 MHz)
- 128 GB Solid State Drive, or 160 - or 120-GB hard drive
- 12.1 "WXGA Transflective TFT display with LED backlight technology
- Slim DVD Super Multi drive (7mm thick, 92g light)
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN
- HSDPA / UMTS
- Bluetooth ® V2.0 + EDR
- Infineon TPM v1.2
- AuthenTec Fingerprint Reader
- W x D x H: 283 x 215.8 x 19.5 (front) / 25.5 (rear) mm
- Weight: 799g or 1.099g
- Battery life: between 4.5 and 8 hours

Connections :
- 1x VGA out
- 3x USB with Sleep-and-Charge
- 1x Firewire
- 1x PCMCIA slot
- 1x SD Card Reader
- 1x Microphone
- 1x Headphone
- 1x Slim Port Replicator connector


Installation :
The installation of Windows 7 is very simple. I have to test the Internet connection waived, so you really out of the box (OOBE Experience) wins. The BIOS supports the latest version 1.60-WIN (which is Windows Vista or Windows 7 should have recorded before the installation) to boot from USB, so I was able to install USB flash drive from one of. Compared to install DVD, this method significantly faster (as described in Windows 7 installation from USB stick). After switching on the device is pressed several times on the right cursor key and then selects the boot screen icon for the USB stick at. According to the language you can decide whether, or to perform a new installation would upgrade one. When you reinstall the previous version of Windows and its own data from documents and settings to a folder with the. moved old, so that they will stay. Man can this data when they are no longer needed, subsequently using the Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) comfortable remove.

During setup, you can open the way with SHIFT + F10 a cmd window, which allows a more complex work such as the reduction of existing partitions on the Festplattte using diskpart.exe. Since the installation of the wireless network card automatically detects the Windows 7 provides a list of all matching setup, wireless networks and allow you to configure the wireless LAN the same. Once installed, then virtually all devices detected and ready to use. In the Device Manager, there are only two devices that are missing for the drivers. In the new Action Center can be found are two entries for the solution of these problems.

If the button to view problem response follows, you get to read the following statements and can by clicking the necessary software manufacturer Web site and install the.

About Windows Update to get newer drivers then I import accordingly and finalize with a reboot leave.

Thus the entire hardware of the Toshiba Portege R500 Windows 7 Beta 1 is recognized and operational. The Windows Experience Index for the computer then provides a 2.4.

[Rubero]

With the Toshiba directly linked tools can not do that. We have a separate internal installation script for the Toshiba laptops. To ensure that the on / off button does the backlight. On occasion I find out times, what's the difference. Probably different versions of the Toshiba tools. Though I am not sure about this.