WinXPP on Toshiba Satellite U300 (Rather than native Vista)
Toshiba Satellite U300
HiYap Guys! Just got a old Customer, you can call it PacMan, with issues with his Toshiba Satellite U300 Running Windows Vista Home so I am fixing it.
Hooked a Trascend USB Drive 8Gb and done a backup of his 4Gb of pictures.
Entering the Bios has been pretty tricky. The right key is F2 but you have to be very quick since Windows Vista tries to show his f*cking Restoring Procedure which I obviously want to jump.
The Optical Drive is broken so I have connected my external USB DVD Drive, the same one I have uses for the Compaq Mini and the Asus EeePC 1000H.
The object is remove the original Windows Vista Home and install a fresh Windows XP Pro Last XP 1.6 on C drive and something else (Windows 7 maybe) on D drive.
Entering the Bios I have disabled Lan Boot and the internal Optical, and set the external Optical as first boot device, then the internal drive.
Booted Last XP 1.6 and started the deleted the 2 original C and D partitions while I have left untouched the original EFI partition (1,5Gigabyte).
Created a new C for 30 Giga, D for 30 Giga and E for 90 Giga, formated in NTFS the C drive then the copy-files started.
Rebooted with Last XP 1.6 DVD and pressed ESC key to boot from HD, the setup follows til the end.
The precise model is: Toshiba – Satellite U300 – PSU30E and the drivers are downloadable from this URL: http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EN where I have chosen the following info:
- Product Type: Notebook
- Family: Satellite
- Product Series: Satellite U Series
- Model: Satellite U300
- Short Model Number: PSU30E
- Operating System: Windows XP
- Driver Type: All
- Country: Spain
- Language: English
The search gives a result page with several drivers and I have installed the VGA, Audio Card, Flash Card Reader, Hotkey Utility, Lan Driver, Modem Driver, Touch Pad Driver, Webcam and Wireless Card.
Rebooted and started the OS configuration!
Next mission is install Windows 7 on D drive…crossing fingers…
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