Anyone have user experience with Toshiba Satellite laptops?

Axios

brent Well with the old hard drives I would delete all partitions and make a new ntfs and format
it then delete that partition and install new most time that would work.
If that didnt yield results would do a disk wipe that would 99% time take care of it.
If that didnt yield results would test the disk and usually found issues.

But I do the first step with SSD (Of coarse you dont want to wipe a SSD)
To answer I leave it Unallocated That way nothing is on it.
(I Dunno Seems kinda unneeded but always got me out of sticky spots.)

Oh to comment on your calmares comment on their website they recommend you erase disk first.

BuzzPCSOS

Axios To answer I leave it Unallocated That way nothing is on it.

I tried that for my Toshiba but the installer always installs to GPT format. It was an oddball sure enough.

BuzzPCSOS

brent you putting Solus back on?

It is already rocking 4.6 and loving it. The manual install should work on your Toshibas too without any BIOS modification.

brent me too. do you leave it unallocated or give it the GPT format?

Not for your Toshibas though. MBR MS-DOS partitions only 😄

BuzzPCSOS

@brent @Axios Hopefully this might get sorted for the next iso. Spotted this which I didn't understand initially but now think makes a much better explanation of what the problem was and how to fix it. It looks like much of our research followed a parallel path

Axios

BuzzPCSOS That link makes sense maybe it will get corrected.
Brent I think has the original toshiba and you have the newer they sold out I think round 2012 or something
then came back.
So you know what that is always like with products.
Oh well put another check mark for ya..lol

Oh I agree this might be causing some others posting here the same problem

brent

BuzzPCSOS I read that while back. OP;s conclusion was MBR the wrong way to go. But he had a lot in common with your situation conceptually. Maybe Devs will revise Help Center with this knowledge. Probably better to have prescribed workaround than tamper with the guts of Calmares.

Axios Brent I think has the original toshiba and you have the newer they sold out I think round 2012 or something
then came back.
So you know what that is always like with products.
Oh well put another check mark for ya..lol

I will put them both in a box and mail them to you. They could double as sandbags for the high water.
They are upgradable to 8 but I don't have time time or money to get them there right now...that said Solus runs nice on one if I don't tax it...like open 2 tabs and an office doc...

BuzzPCSOS

brent I don't know what version Toshiba yours was other than using BIOS. Mine is a Satellite C660 with a i3 gen 3 CPU, 2Gb ram and originally shipped with win7.
4Gb of ram makes things much more responsive and an SSD improves general speed and performance greatly. Great for browsing and light use. Probably best not to try video editing or bitcoin mining on it though 😀

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