[Ham-Computers] Toshiba Laptop and XP pro

[Fr. johnny]

Hi all - It turns out that F2 is the boot into BIOS and F12 will give me 
a boot choice menu...this is the newest Toshiba A250 Laptop....I looked 
all through the BIOS for a prompt that said "disable the native SATA 
mode" and there is not one..... I know there must be a way to change 
back to XP anyone here with a Toshiba laptop done this? I suppose I 
could get a 4 GB USB disk and load XP imto that and load from that but 
it seems ashame to have a 110GB HDD sitting idle especially since we 
wanted to record our camera's on the weekend to the HDD....anyone tried 
this does it work? Appreciate the help 73 Johnny
Loren Moline WA7SKT wrote:
> Johnny,
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> Do you want to install XP instead of Vista? I did on mine. Vista would not run most of my ham software. I can tell you how to get your harddrive to work. I just reformatted and installed XP but you must go into bios and disable the native SATA mode. Wont make any difference on XP because only Vista uses the native mode.
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>> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:14:05 -0700
>> From: kd5lwu2 at beyondbb.com
>> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Toshiba Laptop and XP pro
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>> Hi - I have a new Toshiba laptop with Windows Vista on it which will not 
>> run my X10 Camera software so I am wondering if virtualPC or some other 
>> like program will run Windows XP Pro on vista so I can run the X10 
>> software? When one tries to load XP on a Toshiba laptop to replace Vista 
>> then XP does not see the HDD and unless there is a free program that 
>> allows this finding and formating of HDD then VirtualPC program seems to 
>> be my only alternative....should have not bought a Toshiba laptop but I 
>> did not know about this until after I bought it (Darn!) Thanks for the 
>> help 73 Johnny KD5LWU Cortez, Colorado
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