installing windows on blank hard drive

Try -

-See if you have any rare/exotice hardware that Windows cannot recognise and needs drivers for (storage devices)
-Unplug all USB/Firewire/Expansion cards until windows install has finished
-Update the system BIOS (if available)
-Update the optical drive firmware (if available)

What "disk" are you installing off? Is it a retail CD, a burnt copy, or a pirated version that may be corrupt? Is the CD scratched or rotting?

If its a copied/pirated/burnt disk, try borrowing a retail pressed disk from a friend and see if that works.

Also, in case you are using a "customised" / "nlited" / "hfslip+" / "SP2/3 slipstreamed" disk, try using the XP RTM version, to check if the reason setup hangs is because of a corrupt or missing file.

i tried the retail and a burnt copy they both do the same thing, I'm wondering if it could be a bad hard drive but i don't know. I tried unplugging expansion cards but it does the same

Sorry to be the harbinger of doom, bt the last time this happened to me, it ended up being a bad board. . . and sometimes memory does that, too.

Sometimes, though you just have to let it stay at that screen overnight or something like that.

One more thing. . . any way you can mount that drive in a running desktop and try, at the very least, to format it? Try to listen to an clicking or clunking, too.

i don't know if this helps but i just noticed when it turns on the toshiba screen doesn't look right but when u go to the format part where theres a blue screen everything looks fine

sound like you have a hardware problem. should get it checked out by a tech, and explain your windows install problems to them.