• Toshiba Portege M200 Specs

I can only suggest perhaps that you might need the drivers for the SD card. I found that I too had trouble trying to get the SD card working properly to do the install but I cannot remember.exactly. what I did to get it working.

Toshiba Portege M200 Specs

Perhaps you could try putting the SD card into another machine and running the boot utility on that, since you only need the boot media on the SD card. Once you can get the SD card bootable everything should fall into place (its very probable that this is what I did). Sorry I couldn’t be more specific. And good luck.

Im sorry your having troubles, and believe me, don’t think that it’s necessarily going to be “quick and easy”. I too had troubles, but I just kept at it until it eventually gave in. I know this doesn’t give you a LOT of guidance and others have experienced this also. Basically the crunch is that it’s most likely a driver incompatibility between the SD Card Hardware and Windows 7 (and I cant remember my solution but I am very certain I had this problem too).

I would suggest you perhaps try a USB external SD Card reader to create the image. When it comes to the BIOS boot up, the built-in SD card reader should be fine (and I dare say preferred) – perhaps this might resolve this particular issue. In my case it wasn’t necessary (I am fairly sure I just kept trying “random” drivers until I found one that worked – or I simply got lucky – I cant quite remember) but I suggest that it might be an acceptable work around. No offense, but I find it highly unlikely that you only have 500MB or RAM unless its a really old Portege (not the tablet variety). I am pretty sure these guys came out of the factory with 1024MB RAM by default (I could be wrong).

In either case, I think you misinterpreted my post. I had Windows 7 on it, but it just isn’t good. Besides the fact that everything is a bit sluggish most of the features of the tablet are lost.

If you’ve still got Windows XP Tablet Edition on it, I’d let sleeping dogs lie. Hi, I have the Portege M200 running XP SP3. While twiddling around with it and running virus scans etc. I thought it would be interesting to set a password for the Administrator account and to reserve access to all files and folders to the Administrator.

I carefully noted the password. Around 20 minutes later I was running a GMER scan when the system crashed with a blue screen. On reboot it went through check disk on startup, repairing sectors etc. After that it booted up normally and requested the password. However the password does not work.

I tried entering from the keyboard and also from the osk but it just doesn’t work. I bought a password recovery cd only to discover that my PCMCIA external PC drive does not appear on the (astonishingly short) list of approved external CD drives. Can I use the format utility you provided to boot from an SD card? Could I put a disk image of the recovery CD onto the SD card and have it boot from that? Had the same issue with Win7 and TOSHIBA SD Boot/Format util not seeing the device. I was running the utility from a separate host machine, trying to format the card in an external usb card reader. I ended up using a CF card, formatting that, making it bootable, and dropping my files there.

Then using a PCMCIA CF Card reader, booted my Tosh M200 off the PCMCIA. I don’t know what the card restrictions are if any, I was using a 512MB CF Card. Might be able to use a larger card to install Win7. This was easier then trying to get SD card to boot. Hi I appreciate your time and effort! This is very helpful but I could be the dumbest person that ever lived when dealing with computers. I took my Toshiba Portege M200 to many people to get it fixed but no one even tries to fix it.

So I decided to get it fixed myself. I have no discs for the computer at all but I do have a formatted SD card its only 128mb, not much but should get the job done from what I understood. THE PROBLEM: When I power on the tablet PC it shows a black screen saying ” Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.

Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.” THE QUESTIONS: 1) Is this just a problem that would be solved by booting or formatting? 2) IF it is, do I install the format utility and boot utility on the same SD card from my other laptop? 3) Do I unzip both utilities on my other laptop then copy them to the SD card that will be used for this process or do I simply copy the folders unzipped to the SD card? I apologize about the big dummy questions and for the newspaper article that I just wrote but any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you much. If your sdcard isnt detecting in the Toshiba format or boot programs you downloaded on this site but you know the drive letter as windows has detected it then you can open a command prompt by pressing ‘Windows key – R’ type ‘command’ press enter change to the directory with the executable files ‘cd program files toshiba insertwhichprogram’ then ‘program.exe e:’ (the executable file name.exe spacebar the drive letter windows detected the drive as) it will start the program in windows with your drive selection filled in.

I think network boot might be what I reluctantly use to repair this old laptop, I’ve not needed to attempt that option in the past but this laptop even uses its own hdd connections and usb cdrom doesnt detect and I dont have a pcmcia cdrom. Good luck with your projects people. Thanks for the long-lost Toshiba SD files. So many places point you to MITM-compromised web sites these days. If you need to find an external optical that works with this beast – The Samsung SE-S084 external DVD writer works (I own it – cute little blue thing) -caveat- I highly recommend using the cable that comes with it. This is a dual male to mini-male affair intended to scarf as much power of the motherboard’s ports it canand I’m not a big fan of stuff like that.

Use an external USB hub that has it’s own power supply (wall wart). Plug the thinnest cable male into the hub (only has two wires internally to get power) and the thick one into the M200 (all 4 lines). The mini plug goes into the back of the drive. The M200 is.much.

happier booting this way. Also, when hitting the arrow keys @ boot to select the source, tap it once to the right to select the optical drive and wait a sec or two to make sure the external drive’s controller has a chance to tell the M200 it’s got bootable stuff – then off you go.