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Please, will my plan work? Reformatting my TP R60

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Thanks for reading my problem amongst all the others!

My laptop (Lenovo – Thinkpad – R60) will only boot up in Safe Mode or from a disc. I want to reformat my hard drive to fix this. Can anyone please tell me if my plan of action is going to work?

I’m definitely not a technology person, so answers in simple language and/or with links to where I need to go would be GREATLY appreciated.

I have:

- a windows XP pro disc

I have also downloaded the following drivers, which are appropriate for my laptop and saved them to a disc:

- ethernet driver
- wireless driver
- ultranav mouse driver

My plan is to:

- boot from the winows xp disc and install the OS
- once I get into windows, I will insert the disc that I have the drivers on… I will run those, then go into C:/drivers and run the set up programs for each of the drivers.

Will this work? Thanks for any pointers.

Happy New Year to all!
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You may need more drivers than those three, depending on your notebook. I'd look on Toshiba's support site for a list and download any others they list for your model before you reinstall XP. To give you an idea, my notebook came with drivers for graphics, sound, hotkeys, wireless, and touchpad.

Also, after you install the drivers, you should be able to configure them via the Windows Control Panel - there's no need to do so via C:/drivers.

And as a final reminder, make sure you have your Windows Product Key handy when you reinstall. Mine is on the bottom of my computer, which made it kind of a pain to type in since I had to keep flipping the computer over to look at it then flipping it back to type.
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