AALoopy;

Are you sure they are Operating system disks or MS Office. You said Office in your post. Office is only a suite of programs like MS Word, Excell, PowerPoint etc not an operating system. WinXP Home, Pro or Media would be an OPerating System.
If you are purchasing the XP Home set, See if you can get one flashed with SP2, otherwise there will be a lot of downloading to get it up to snuff. Make sure you have all your XP drivers, utilities etc before making the switch or you will find that some of your features are not working

u want to try this thread out?
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread206053.html

search in the forum using some keyword would yield many inputs

cheers ...

Try these, the A210 and A215 should virtually be the same:
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread208179.html

Can this same procedure be used with a P205-S7439?

Go thru your device manager/driver file, and get a list of the hardware in your machine and compare it with other models with the same hardware and use those drivers
http://www.notebook-drivers.com/note...rs/r_3_1.shtml

HELLO!!
IM CLAUDIA FROM MEXICO, I bought a laptop 3 months ago, model A215-S4697, really i hate vista, then i change my O.S. to WINDOWS XP, o my god!
the problem drivers, anyway, finally i found drivers for xp. All working!!
Only the FN functions dont work.
but, video, sound, network, wifi, chipset, etc it work
only a thing... the processor should work 1.6 ghz, but with xp work at 800 mhz, then you need install the processor's drivers, that drivers is in amd support page.
i have an account of megaupload, and i upload the drivers for you guys!
sorry for my english, but i dont speak, or write well, im from mexico and im only speaks spanish, but i try to write in english for you.
the xp drivers for a215-s4697 !!!
Ahora en espanol para los que si me entiendan, compre hace 3 meses una computadora a215 de toshiba, el problema fueron los drivers cuando la intente cambiar a XP, por fin despues de tanto tiempo los encontre, solamente no funcionan los de la tecla FN, aun no he encontrado esos, pero
tengo una cuenta de megaupload y ahi subire los drivers.
Cuando pones xp, el procesador que debe trabajar a 1.6 ghz solo trabaja a 800 mhz, pero pones los drivers del procesador y ya...
estan en la pagina de amd.

the link for processor driver
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._14098,00.html

the link for A215-S4697 drivers
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=68OWYIGT

I installed XP on my 215 yesterday. I have the drivers that belmon slayer provided. Agere 56K Modem
AMD AGP Filter
AMD Dual Core Optimizer
AMD Processor
Atheros AR5006X WiFi
ATI Radeon X1200
ATI SB600 Chipset
ATI SM BUS
Microsoft UAA HD Audio
Realtek HD Audio
Realtek RTL8139-810x Ethernet
TI Multi-Card Reader

What I couldn't do is install the wifi driver because all it is is a .inf file. How do you run that file? I live in baghdad where internet is only wifi so I need it to work. Getting tired of Vista

I installed XP on my 215 yesterday. I have the drivers that belmon slayer provided. Agere 56K Modem
AMD AGP Filter
AMD Dual Core Optimizer
AMD Processor
Atheros AR5006X WiFi
ATI Radeon X1200
ATI SB600 Chipset
ATI SM BUS
Microsoft UAA HD Audio
Realtek HD Audio
Realtek RTL8139-810x Ethernet
TI Multi-Card Reader

What I couldn't do is install the wifi driver because all it is is a .inf file. How do you run that file? I live in baghdad where internet is only wifi so I need it to work. Getting tired of Vista
If anyone can help just email me at ttttrigg3r@hotmail.com

Choose the manual installation, dont let Windows search for the driver. Choose from the device list what you want to install. Choose "have disk", drill down to the folder where the INF file is stored along with other related files (sys, dll)

You can also search for the XP driver from the 200 series - it is the same.

cheers ...

I have used the information in this forum to get my Toshiba A215-S4697 converted over to XP. However, all of the driver packages that I have downloaded have not been able to get my Ethernet Controller or my Video Controller working. If anyone has the correct drivers to help me please tell me where I can get those two. Thank You!