Toshiba OS help

[mantis69666]

A friend of mine bought a Toshiba from a guy he works with and ended up having to replace the hard drive recently since the old one crashed. Every time he tries to install WinXP Pro on the laptop it keeps asking for the system disk. The guy he bought it from can't find the original disks that came with the laptop. Do Toshiba's have any sort propreitary means for not allowing an installation of any other OS's other then whats on the system disk? Anything else I could possible try? Any help would be appreciated. I'd give more information on the laptop if I could but I don't have it.....yet, he may just give it to me to try and fix but I'll still be lost. Thank you in advance for all the help.

 

[timswim78]

I have reinstalled XP on Toshiba laptops without any problems. Most likely, he needs to change the boot order in the BIOS to see the CDROM as the first boot device.

 

[Canterwood]

Try hitting the 'C' key on bootup.

That should make it boot from the cd.

 

[mrbill14]

I recently re-installed the OS on my GF's Toshiba laptop (3505). She was running WinXP Tablet Edition.

Without thinking I installed WinXP Pro (non-tablet edition), which... without the knowledge of hitting the "C" key (so it would boot of the external CD-ROM) was difficult at best... anyway.... I got WinXP Pro up and running, but the Pen and the "Tablet" part (of the Windows software) didn't work. Needless to say my GF was not very happy.

I finally found a "way" to "install" the Tablet portions of WinXP and all is well.

Basically, it "registers" the Tablet component of the OS (cab files and .inf's). (Do a Google search for Tablet PC hack.)