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Hi I was wondering if Linus could do a video on fixing the mint condition Toshiba laptop would be dope

I found an old laptop sitting in the basement. I've been wanting a cheap laptop to just mess around with but didnt really want to spend money. Well, i figured i could just factory reset the original laptop, then somehow upgrade to windows 10. all the youtube videos seem to require me to have a thumb drive or cd. i dont. can i just download the update somehow?

Hi everyone, Is there something simple I'm not thinking of? I have an old machine that ran Vista Home Premium, but the OS crashed and I need to reinstall it. I tried my Windows 10 bootable drive, but ran into problems with disk partitions. I would like to just boot up Vista Home Premium via USB, but it looks like I need the Vista disc or Operating System already installed? That sort of defeats the purpose of making a bootable USB doesn't it... Maybe there's something I'm not thinking of. Thanks for any help you can give.

I have an XPS desktop that I got from work without the HDDs. It has a Vista Ultimate OEM sticker on the side and I want to know if I can still use that to put Vista back on the computer. I want to give this to a family that is a bit down on their luck at the moment. Their computer just died and they cannot afford a new one, and they need it for the basics and the kids homework. Luckily they did backup all of the really important stuff like pictures and school projects. I would do a Kingiun Windows 10 key but I am not in a fantastic financial position myself unfortunately, and I REALLY am not sure about that path either. I have replaced the missing HDD with an old one from my laptop and it should do the trick nicely if I can get an operating system on it. Any help would be appreciated.

Okay I recently acquired an old Dell XPS 410 desktop pc that came equipped with 1Gb DDR2 ram, an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz processor with a basic Microsoft graphics card and stock power supply. All I know about the system is that the board uses DDR2 ram and that it has an LGA775 CPU socket and that the old MSI MX4000-T64 graphics card I have wont fit in the old slot in place of the Microsoft one. If anyone knows where I could get a list of motherboard specs for this system it would be greatly appreciated because then I would know better what kind of upgradability it has which I know shouldn't be to bad as I had a couple spare 2Gb DDR2 cards laying around which are currently in the system giving it 5Gb ram and allowing it to run pretty smooth considering the old outdated hardware its using. Thank you to everyone who answers in advance and I will return the favor if the time you need some help I could offer should ever come.

Alright, so, weird problem here: i had a computer running windows vista, but then i changed some of its hardware and for some reason it wouldn't boot. tried setting it to oobe/audit mode but that didn't work either. so i went to reinstall vista just to find out that when i boot it to the cd it says "windows is loading files" and when it finishes it just gets stuck.i transferred the hard disk to another pc and tried it again and it worked perfectly so i turned on oobe and transferred it back just to find out that, again, it crashes on boot. so i had the idea to install windows XP and then upgrade it from there (because windows XP's installer uses a different format, i thought it might work) and surprisingly, not only did it install it, but also boot into it! however, my version of windows XP is 32 bit and windows Vista is 64, so i couldn't upgrade that way... so what i've got now is a computer that will boot to XP but not any of the newer versions of windows (tried it with 10 also). i SUSPECT that the problem MIGHT be my bios, since they seem to be somewhat corrupt, however, i'm using a legacy MSI board that seems to lack any kind of bios flashing software (model: P965 Neo). i've also tried installing MSI's Live Update 6, but it requires .NET framework 4.0 and windows XP doesn't come with it. when i tried to install it it failed with the error code "0x80070643". dunno what it means basically, can anybody explain to me why i'm able to boot to XP but not newer versions??? and also, what does error code 0x80070643 mean in the .NET framework installer???

Hello. I have a question, Could you possibly boot Windows Vista off A 32/64GB USB or a Hard drive? I'm pretty certain that this is possible, You may be asking "WHY WINDOWS VISTA?!?" Well I thought wouldn't it be great to share the joys of a 12 Year old operating system that changed how Windows looked in our pocket? But of course this could be done with any version of Windows such 10,8.1/8/7/XP or even 2000+95! The hard disk drive would be the USB and the computer would be what gives it Internet and such other things. Could this be made into a Video if Possible? Thank you very much, IsaacCatnology ?.

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Is it possible to build a multi-boot system on a single drive with XP + Vista + 7 or the same one with 64bit editions included ? Because I have a few additional parts lying around + original Windows CDs ready to exploit and would be a shame not to use them Would it be possible to build a 6-Windows system? Or rather try this with separate HDDs or better yet using IDE to SD converter & try it with swapping cards? What are your thoughts on this matter? Any help & advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi guys I'm having a bizarre in windows vista 32 bit where I can't seem to install any browser other than chrome, and it doesn't work right either When I try to use chrome it gives me constant security warnings because obviously vista isn't supported anymore, and it won't let me download nvidia drivers I click download and it just keeps loading It lets me download firefox and opera browser installers, but whenever I click on those (as admin or not) it shows the windows loading thing for a sec and then acts like nothing happened I just want to use a browser on my old gaming rig but I can't get it to work. I have XP on another drive in this same PC and that works just fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi guys I found a 9800gtx+ for €10 near me and have been seriously thinking of buying it to upgrade my retro gaming rig with 2gb ddr2 and a q6600 Should I hold out for a bit and try to find a deal on gtx 280/60 or get the 9800gtx +? Really just want something to play everything from half life to bioshock to gta 4 on at 1080p. Also I have to upgrade my psu with all of those but whatever I'd like to hear your opinions Thanks

I recently formatted an old Vista laptop. I installed it, did all the updates and went to IE to download chrome. It kept popping up a security threat for every website I entered that was https! Even Google! Once I downloaded chrome and tried it, the same thing was happening! Some(if not all) Google images couldn't show up neither could I see a YouTube video. My time is all correct, I have tried to restart my wifi, clear ask cache and even deleted McAfee. I even tried to re format the laptop again but nothing! The exact same. Please help me! Thanks

So this morning, I remembered that the drive I use as an external HDD (via USB) has a Vista partition on it from the time when said HDD was on another laptop. I used to boot it from time to time just for fun but I hadn't done it in a long while. Since I was planning to delete the windows install from it and wanted to know what programs/data I should be looking to export before format, I decided to boot it again as an external HDD. I boot it up, I get the Vista loading bar then blue screen with a STOP code. I thought it must be some driver error or something of the sort. I try again in safe mode, same BSOD. At this point I don't look further into it since the partition was for another laptop and decided to just reboot Win 7 from my main drive. When rebooting, the drive just stopped working. When plugged, it would show up after 20-30 seconds as Local Disk (D:) but remains inaccessible with no size information or anything of that sort. I proceeded to install the drive on my second HDD bay to see if it's a faulty external HDD case. Same result. Drive shows up, can't be read from, chkdsk d: stays stuck on a blank line (doesn't even retrieve drive info, let alone start the check) and diskmgmt.msc keeps loading endlessly. The thing is, I know it's only a logical error and that there is no lost data because 1) No physical damage was done to the disk throughout this entire process, I've moved drives around countless times and 2) I went back after the drive became unreadable and tried to boot Vista again. It worked. Same Vista loading bar, same BSOD. The partition still works. But I don't know why my OS can't checkdisk the drive. So help would be appreciated Tell me if you need anymore info. Update: The drive is showing up as a device (Toshiba+model number), but the drive itself is still inaccessible/uncheckable. Some Minitool Partition Wizard screens (Check file system doesn't work, starts and remains stuck): https://imgur.com/a/GCC6Hmc https://imgur.com/a/XnfxDP1 https://imgur.com/a/O2k9pb9

I have a old Windows Vista PC that i want to get photos off of but I forgot the password. Please help!

Hello! I have this old PC and its HDD failed. I have the Product Key for it, but it needs Windows Vista Home Basic. I was able to find this download for Home Premium, but the product key wouldn't work for it because it wasn't basic. And I can't find an Install Media for it. I also have this old Windows 7 Compaq laptop that died. I also have the key for it. But when I go on Microsoft's website to download the ISO, it tells me to enter my Product Key. I did this, and it said it was for HP software or something like that and it wouldn't give me the ISO. Help? Thanks

Hello, So i was asked to repair a network connection problem on a laptop (it's an old HP pavilion dualcore running windows vista SP2 home premium). The problem is that any time i connect an ethernet cable it tries to identify and fails resulting in unidentified network. Wifi works. Internet provider confirmed that the connection to household is good. I can't check the router, it is unreachable. Anyway, I took it to my home and the same problem, no connection through ethernet. I have tried: cmd commands like flushdns, deleted route 0.0.0.0, reseted ipv4, ipv6 and so on. checked services, and all necessary are running. The cable is good(I tried a diferent computer and it connected no problem), tried adding registry files to set the policies. I read other similar threads, none of them helped. None of the solutions did anything. ipconfig shows that ip address is 169.xxx. reinstalled network drivers. tried booting up in safe mode with networking, same problem. tried setting static ip and gateway - nothing. I dont know what else to try.Anyone have any ideas? Quote: Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : gita-PC Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Peer-Peer IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-24-D3 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a4c1:f828:f8f8:a1e6%28(Preferred) Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.161.230(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 570432292 DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-0E-CB-6B-8A-00-1B-24-D3-98-23 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1 fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1A-73-C3 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{C748BF5B-9114-4D09-B1A8-CC82A6A94CE3} Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 18: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #5 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 23: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{45978B0B-6BAC-4975-A9B7-A4182CB67524} Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 24: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 25: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 27: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 28: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 30: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 31: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 33: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 34: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

I rescued one of my old pc which is a Fujitsu Siemens amilio pi 1536 laptop that has Vista installed but I formated it couple of times so none of the original drivers are installed. My problem is that I couldn't get my 2 right side usb ports working which is probably driver issue and my SD card reader won't work also which I highly suspect it being a driver issue.When I plug usb or sd card it keeps showing driver issues in device manager. Worst part is when I try to let windows find the drivers; it just infinantely loads/searches for the drivers which were missing. Also this pc is not supported anymore and no any IT guy could solve this problem but saying "You should buy a new pc".Halp plz... (sorry for bad englandos)

Recently, my father gave me his old gaming PC. It was built to run XP and nothing else. I used it for a while, mainly because he had a lot of music on there that reminded me of my younger days, I never really did anything else on there. Then one day I go to boot it up and it just automatically starts updating itself to Vista. Now its running Vista sp2 and the poor old thing can't handle it! Is there any way I can reverse this?

Hi! i was recently given an old desktop pc: Compaq Presario SR5219UK - GU668AA-ABU AMD Athlon x2 (dual-core) 4400+ ~ 2.3GHz 1GB (2x512mb) DDR2-667MHz W indows Vista Home Premium 32bit Motherboard is an ECS Nettle2 (OEM) - (MCP61PM-HM) LiteOn 300W PSU - (PS-5301-08HF) Since getting the computer i've been upgrading her; added 2x1GB PC2-5300 (DDR2 666MHz) RAM sticks, which put my total to 3GB of RAM i then discovered that my CPU can run 64-bit so 64-bit Vista Home Premium is now pulling the strings. ive done other assorted upgrades, hard drives, fans etc. over the original setup, ive noticed an unholy improvement in performance. However, since then i have researched the nettle2 Motherboard and apparently it can a maximum of 8GB (4x 2GB) DDR2 RAM in 3 speeds. 533MHz, 667MHz, and 800MHz. so i got myself 4 2GB RAM sticks, popped them in, booted, and my PC freezes at boot! i have tested every stick, in every configuration, even in combination with my old 1GB's, twice! so sticks/ports are ALL okay. all RAM DIMMs are working, all RAM ports are working. I am confident that i have found the problem! i have 4 RAM Slots on my Mobo [1,2],[3,4] 1 and 2 are on the first dual RAM channel, 3 and 4 are on the second dual RAM channel. The problem arised when my new sticks arrived, i placed 4x matched 2GB DDR2 800MHz DIMMs into all ram ports 1,2,3,4 intending to max out the ram potential on this aging pc. This results in freeze during boot and freeze in BIOS was occuring, along wiht fragments on the screen. no problems at all with 6GB (3x 2GB) either in 1,2,3 or 1,2,4 this setup boots fine, but they all only operate single channel.. no thanks. in order to maintain speed/size i only have 2x 2GB 800MHz in ports 1,2 however after testing, my Error also occurs when i use this working setup in slots 3,4. this lead me to think the ports were malfunctioning; BUT with my ram as follows: Channel 1: port 1: 2GB 800MHz port 2: 2GB 800MHz Channel 2: port 3: 1GB 666MHz port 4: 1GB 666MHz she boots no problems! but the 2gb's get underclocked to 666MHz and i dont want that, but this tells me that my second channel works fine. i THINK my problem is that my second dual RAM channel cannot run 2x 2GB 800MHz Also note that my BIOS sees all 8GB... until it freezes! ANY help/suggestions are more than welcome, and il be working on it for the next couple of days so il be back here checking often, thanks in advance for the technical assistance!! Mr. Briggs

Hello LTT forums, Under the rule of cant fix it yourself, call in someone who can i am calling for help here. I work at a pc shop and lately we have allot of Vista machines comming into the shop that we cannot seem to repair, wich is quite a big problem since they are kind of stacking up as we speak. The problem all the machines come in with it that they BSOD within one minute after booting up, they all show either 0x101 or 0x124 as a BSOD. We have tried several things to fix this issue and even tried a fresh clean install on a SSD and putt that into the different machines, no luck on that either. The things we did try: - System restore - uninstall updates - check drivers - replace CPU (desktop) - Memtest - Harddisk tested (crystaldisc) - CPU Stresstest - Safe mode (works longer, but sometimes BSOD`s aswell) - SP1 and SP2 machines BSOD - checked for mal/spyware / virusses - deleted programs that might cause it. As said before we did try to do as much as posible to test what is can be, it cannot be that more than 10 machines a suddenly suffered hardware failure within a week i think. We did try to run the systems with a fresh windows 7 install aswell and they all work fine with windows 7. We had installed Windows vista on a new SSD aswell on a i3 machine wich ran fine on there, we updated it up till the last update and removed it from that system and plugged it into some of the BSOD machines, non of them worked with it and BSOD`ed right away just like with the normal installation. This seems to give the impression that its processor/hardware related in combination with windows vista, so older hardware in combination with vista BSOD`s, windows 7 works fine with it. I realy hope someone has a clue what is going on or else we have to get onto selling people new laptops instead of repairing them, but im not looking forward calling the customers to tell them buy a new system altho the kind of need to in a few months anyway. Please someone any idea`s? kinda at the end of posibilities here.

Hello, I've got a spare Vista box but it only comes with a 32bit disc. I would like to install the 64bit version on my laptop though but can't seem to find any downloads or information for it. May I ask if someone could point me in the right direction on obtaining a 64bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium and how I would go about burning and installing it (should I need specific steps)? Thanks!

So here's my problem: I have a 32GB SanDisk SSD that works fine in my Toshiba laptop as well as in my custom Z170 PC. I have an old (Vista era) sony VAIO laptop that I want to install Linux with this SSD in. The Sony will not detect the Sandisk SSD (doesn't even show up in BIOS}, even though it works fine in multiple other computers. I have tested both a 250GB mechanical drive and a 120GB ADATA SSD and both work fine in the Sony laptop, it's just the combination of the Sony VAIO and my Sandisk 32GB SSD that won't work. EDIT: Forgot to add the weirdest part; I have used this SSD in this same computer before with no problems!

Hi I have a laptop that originally had Windows Vista and I want to extract my key from the old install because the OEM key on the back will not work. I had Windows Vista Home 32bit and tried to install a Windows Vista 64bit, I am not sure if a 32 OEM key on 64 even work but the key on the back of my PC was not usable clearly so is there a way to get the key from my old drive? I have it plugged to a external HDD reader box!

Recently while working on an HP Entertainment series laptop (or desktop replacement, rather) I was to keep the Windows 7 upgrade that had overwritten the original Vista, while also putting Vista back (that’s what the owner wanted…) into a separate partition. My foolish idea was to just run the recovery partition to bring Vista back and expected it to ask me what partition I wanted to recovery to (I already set up a new partition for Vista alongside the current 7). It did not ask me and instead went straight into recovering over the original partition and removing the Windows 7 Install as well as the entire partition. The moment it started I shut the machine down as I knew what it was about to do. Booted back up to find the partition “wiped” or essentially marked as empty. However, when I use Recuva I cannot see the User folders from the 7 Install and EaseUS also does not seem to find them. I was wondering if anyone here has any idea of how I can at least recover the User folder from the Windows 7 Install pre-wipe. These programs find lots of data from the drive but not in a manner that I can parse and see what it is; It gives it to me all jumbled and filled with versions and overwrites. Also, if anyone knows how to recover the partition entirely, that would be greatly appreciated. Ask questions if you have them. Thank you!

I was called in by my manager at work today to come and check out her laptop. She claimed that she could get on the internet just fine anywhere she goes except for work. So I proceeded to troubleshoot and I got this.. The machine is running Windows Vista 32-bit (don't say it) with an Atheros B/G WiFi adapter Watch the video and tell me what your thoughts are (Shot with phone in low lighting, sorry)