Reformatting Questions~
 

Hey dudes.

I have a TOSHIBA laptop here with WinXP Home Edition (5.1.2600) which needs to be reformatted ASAP. Now, I don't have the original WinXP Home disc since, you know, it comes loaded onto the laptop.

I do, however, have a WinXP Pro disc here in the office. I tried to reformat with that shit as the boot disk and just install Pro on the laptop.

Oops. They can't do that, apparently. Conflicting versions.

Also, it would be pretty easy to just make some boot disks. But ha ha the TOSHIBA has no floppy drive ha ha.

So. I need to reformat this shit. Could someone please advise me?

EDIT: I would like to add that I would PREFER to have Pro on the laptop as opposed to Home.

What do you mean, conflicting versions? Can't you just delete the old partition?

Windows XP usually doesn't need a boot disk. You can usually just boot directly from the CD and run the setup utility there. But if it's a newer model of Toshiba laptop (i.e. 2001 or newer) you might want to run the system restore utility that comes loaded onto the machine.

However, if you perfer Pro then just pop in your WinXP Pro into the drive and boot from that. If it doesn't work run your BIOS setup (F1 or F2 on most machines right at startup) and make sure that the boot order of your system devices specifies the CD-ROM as the first one so that your computer will try to boot off the CD first.

Hope that helps.

Yea, it looks like after kicking it a few times (pretty much literally), I figured something out. Something pretty simple. Something retarded about TOSHIBA. Just run your hand down EVERY BUTTON EVER when the laptop boots and you'll EVENTUALLY get into bios.

Thanks guys. I'll close this since I have a good idea what I am doing now. ^_^

O, Hey Pof. Long time no see~ <3