How to Repair HDD Protection Removal Issue when Installing Windows 7

The existance of Windows 7 is quite become a highlight lately. Many source discuss about the intensity of Windows 7. It makes many people want to have this OS on their computer. No matter how old or new their computer is.

Just like the user of Toshiba laptop. He’s been using his laptop which run Vista on it for a long time. On the moment Windows released Windows 7, he wanted to upgrade his Vista to Windows 7. But there’s a problem during the installation. He was asked to reove the HDD protection removal program before continuing the installation process. He has tried to remove the HDD, but ended up with failure. There is a blue screen/shutdown appears whether or not HDD protection is on or off. He didn’t know, that he must perform several tasks under an account that has Administrator privileges before uninstalling the HDD Protection.

Below are the tasks the need to be done, and how to do it :

Stop the Toshiba HDD Protection service, and set to disable.
- Click Start, go to Computer and right click
- Left click on Manage
- In the left pane, click on “Services and Applications” to expand all the services running on the computer
- Find out the Toshiba HDD Protection service
- Click the button to stop (or right click on the service and choose STOP)
- Double click on the service to open the Properties window
- In the “Startup Type” box, choose Disabled
- Click OK to close, then close the Computer Management window.

Bring up your Task Manager and end the Toshiba HDD Protection application
- Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and click the “Task Manager” button
- Click the “Processes” tab to see what processes and applications are running in memory
- Look for the Toshiba HDD Protection application
- Left click it to highlight, then click the “End Process” button to dump it from memory

Go to the Control Panel, Programs and Features
- Find the Toshiba HDD Protection software
- Left click to highlight, and click the Uninstall button at the top
- It should uninstall now without causing the BSOD window
It surely is a long way to be done. But if you do it in order and carefully, you won’t be disspointed with the result.


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