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I have this Toshiba laptop. It's a Satallite 2405-S201. I don't have the
restore CD's and the CD drive doesn't work anyway. It became necessary to
FDISK and FORMAT the hard drive and install Windows XP Pro from a
non-Toshiba disk. To do this, I bought an adapter and plugged the laptop HD
into my desktop computer, in order to have access to a working CD drive. The
partition I setup on the laptop HD was a single FAT32 partition. The
original partition was a single NTFS partition. Would this matter to the
laptop?

Windows installed normally and everything seemed to be okay. But, when I put
the HD back into the laptop and turn it on I get a blue screen that says: "A
problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to
your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error
screen......."

Can someone tell me if changing from NTFS to FAT32 is creating the problem?
Are there any utilities/drivers that I need to install?

Thanks

DH wrote:
> I have this Toshiba laptop. It's a Satallite 2405-S201. I don't have
> the restore CD's and the CD drive doesn't work anyway. It became
> necessary to FDISK and FORMAT the hard drive and install Windows XP
> Pro from a non-Toshiba disk. To do this, I bought an adapter and
> plugged the laptop HD into my desktop computer, in order to have
> access to a working CD drive. The partition I setup on the laptop HD
> was a single FAT32 partition. The original partition was a single
> NTFS partition. Would this matter to the laptop?
>
> Windows installed normally and everything seemed to be okay. But,
> when I put the HD back into the laptop and turn it on I get a blue
> screen that says: "A problem has been detected and windows has been
> shutdown to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first
> time you've seen this stop error screen......."
>
> Can someone tell me if changing from NTFS to FAT32 is creating the
> problem? Are there any utilities/drivers that I need to install?
>
> Thanks

FAT32/NTFS is not the issue here.. Doing it the way you have, XP has been
set up using the hardware of the desktop PC.. hence the problems when you
shifted it to the laptop which has quite different hardware... and without
a CD drive you can't use the restore console to fix it.. you might be able
to *copy* the XP CD to the hard drive and run setup/restore etc from there -
but do it ON THE LAPTOP!!!

Without a CD drive you are limited in what you do to fix this.. your best
option would be to try an locate a suitable CD
drive.. maybe through eBay? The clean the hard drive completely and intall
XP from the CD..

--
Stevo
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Stop errors are usually due to hardware..either incompatibility or faulty
hardware, but they can also be caused by software.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/stop_error_messages.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...oubleshoot.asp

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search
~or~
http://tinyurl.com/qmg4

"DH" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I have this Toshiba laptop. It's a Satallite 2405-S201. I don't have the
> restore CD's and the CD drive doesn't work anyway. It became necessary to
> FDISK and FORMAT the hard drive and install Windows XP Pro from a
> non-Toshiba disk. To do this, I bought an adapter and plugged the laptop
HD
> into my desktop computer, in order to have access to a working CD drive.
The
> partition I setup on the laptop HD was a single FAT32 partition. The
> original partition was a single NTFS partition. Would this matter to the
> laptop?
>
> Windows installed normally and everything seemed to be okay. But, when I
put
> the HD back into the laptop and turn it on I get a blue screen that says:
"A
> problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage
to
> your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error
> screen......."
>
> Can someone tell me if changing from NTFS to FAT32 is creating the
problem?
> Are there any utilities/drivers that I need to install?
>
> Thanks
>
>

DH tried to scribble ...

> I have this Toshiba laptop. It's a Satallite 2405-S201. I don't have
> the restore CD's and the CD drive doesn't work anyway. It became
> necessary to FDISK and FORMAT the hard drive and install Windows XP
> Pro from a non-Toshiba disk. To do this, I bought an adapter and
> plugged the laptop HD into my desktop computer, in order to have
> access to a working CD drive. The partition I setup on the laptop HD
> was a single FAT32 partition. The original partition was a single
> NTFS partition. Would this matter to the laptop?
>
> Windows installed normally and everything seemed to be okay. But,
> when I put the HD back into the laptop and turn it on I get a blue
> screen that says: "A problem has been detected and windows has been
> shutdown to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first
> time you've seen this stop error screen......."
>
> Can someone tell me if changing from NTFS to FAT32 is creating the
> problem? Are there any utilities/drivers that I need to install?
>
> Thanks

Stevo is quite correct here, and it's something I've also just done on an
old Tosh CDS 4000.

Use the adaptor with the laptop hd slaved to the desktop to do a full Fdisk
and Format again. Copy an XP CD to the hard drive. Unplug everything, then
re-install the laptop hd, startup and navigate to the folder where you saved
XP and run setup.

Works a treat ..


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.............................Paul - xxx