Hi, Just got a new toshiba satellit pro with Vista Home premium installed. Previously used XP Pro. Vista looks ok but will not work with some of my essential software (my version of MYOB for example). Don't want to replace all my software so I tried setting up a virtual PC and loaded XP Pro on that. Worked ok (bit slow) but operating under Microsoft Virtual PC, you don't get access to USB ports which means I can't use my printer nor scanner. Then tried VMware to run the virtual PC which does support USB ports - seemed to work but very slow.
This seems to be a lot of messing around and it would seem simpler to just scrap the Vista and go back to XP. Want to keep the vista (for the future) so I was thinking of getting another HD to replace the one loaded with Vista then just loading XP Pro on that drive with all the downloaded Toshiba XP drivers.
My question is - has anyone replaced the drive on a Satellit Pro L300? is it straight forward to replace and are there any changes to the BIOS that I need to make. Any issues with loading XP? Other than that any other bright ideas ?
thanks
This seems to be a lot of messing around and it would seem simpler to just scrap the Vista and go back to XP. Want to keep the vista (for the future) so I was thinking of getting another HD to replace the one loaded with Vista then just loading XP Pro on that drive with all the downloaded Toshiba XP drivers.
My question is - has anyone replaced the drive on a Satellit Pro L300? is it straight forward to replace and are there any changes to the BIOS that I need to make. Any issues with loading XP? Other than that any other bright ideas ?
thanks
