Toshiba drivers needed

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

Does anyone know where I can download all the drivers for a Toshiba Sat. p100, for FREE? - (OS is XP-pro)

All the stinkin' links I hit so far, wants money. (& they have the nerve to ask AFTER you download & run there scanner)

A friend of mine SOMEHOW blew away his OS & he THINKS he didn't get CD's (no "rebuild" on HD either) so I have NOTHING which to rebuild this system except my own tools & XP CD.
And on top of it, for some reason my tools that tells me what the devices are (and/or drivers needed) doesn't seem to want to work.

Thanks

pappyld04 · Joined: Dec 31, 2008 Posts: 4 Location: Oklahoma

I found the drivers at the Toshiba website. Took a bit of searching but once you find the same types of PCs you should be able to find the drivers. You could also try a file recovery disk like Recuva or an Undeleter if you can get one! There are several online for trial and for free!

albert001 · Joined: Jan 01, 2008 Posts: 14

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp#

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 2240 Location: Central FL, USA

In my own experience with Toshiba laptops, I've found that they come out of the box with a Restore disk, usually a self booting disk with a Ghost image of the original factory install.

Possibly, a message to Toshiba could get them to send you a copy of the restore disk for that little PC. Just a thought.

Good Luck and Happy New Year!

The Doctor Cool

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

Thanks to all for helping...

I went to toshiba FIRST & they list P100-STxxxx but NO straight P100 & I don't see anything on the NB that would be an ST # so which one would it be is the 6 million dollar question?

As for file recovery / undelete, he already reinstalled to the HD. I THINK that is how he blew it away. Tried to do a repair install & did a regular instead.

I, too, thought there were disk. Especially since there is no recovery partition / files on the HD. But even at that, if he DOES have them, he doesn't know "where" they'd be.

I may just HAVE to contact Toshiba. If nothing else, THEY can tell me where to get them. (I would HOPE, anyway)

MDGnome · Joined: Aug 29, 2005 Posts: 21

As far as I know, Toshiba has never made a "straight" P100. Have you looked at the bar code/label on the bottom of the laptop? The -STxxxx designation is usually there.

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

pappyld04 · Joined: Dec 31, 2008 Posts: 4 Location: Oklahoma

Some of the Recovery downloads I saw CLAIM to be able to recover from many problems, reformat included. Reality may be a bit different from their claim but since the software is free in many cases it could be worth a shot. I personally keep at least 3-4 different ones handy since no one program could ever detect or recover everything that is available.

I bought my laptop used from a student doctor who had reformatted and reinstalled the XP. The first thing I did was to test my Search and Recover2 which found about 2,000+/- files. Some were beyond recovery but just the fact that I got into the files was encouraging! Forensic Recovery may be a good search term also!

goretsky

Hello,

Have you tried running a program such as Belarc Advisor or Realix HWiNFO to see if they can more precisely identify the model of Toshiba notebook computer?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 2240 Location: Central FL, USA

I'm probably not the most organized person in the world, but, I have one place and one place only for everything, like driver disks, that pertain to my PC.

How someone could buy a new computer and not save the restore disk(s) that came with it, in a safe place, is beyond my understanding. Question

Believe me, if I ever buy a laptop computer, I'll put the restore disk in a fireproof vault somewhere.
And, if the lappy doesn't come with one, I'll whip out my Ghost backup program and I'll make my own restore disk.
Which, I would do anyway after the initial setup.

I've done that for many of my customers, who don't have a Restore Disk for their PC. A bootable Ghost disk is a great hedge against disaster.

Oh well, I guess I can't fix the whole world, but I still wish I could. Crying or Very sad

Happy New Year Everyone!

The Doctor Cool

micker377 · Joined: May 27, 2005 Posts: 1059

Doc:
I did the same. I got my new laptop, got it all set up like I wanted, and did a complete B/U to my external HD (I use Acronis). I do other B/Us, but I have the "base" system if I ever need it!

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

Well, maybe I shouldn't say this, but this man has some brain damage & under NORMAL circumstances would have his stuff together, & he mostly DOES. So even I wasn't sure if he got them or not.

I AM teaching him to IMAGE but he doesn't seem to quite grasp the WHOLE procedure, yet. But we're working on that.

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 2240 Location: Central FL, USA

I've assisted users all over the world, to get used to doing Ghost Backups on their system, with Ghost 2003. This goes back several years now.

I wrote a click for click tutorial on the process of making a Partition To Image backup.
Maybe you could try that.
Write it all down....showing every mouse-click or keyboard entry.

I know that such a tutorial has always been helpful to me when doing something with which I'm not familiar.

Doc Cool

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

Yeah, that is what I am gonna do.
Right now, we are waiting on the disks from Toshiba. BTW: as far as I can tell, he DIDN'T get them but should had.

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 2240 Location: Central FL, USA

BT,
You mean you actually got a hold of Toshiba and they agreed to send the disk?

I've only had to use a Toshiba Restore Disk one time.....when the user didn't do what I told him to do and leave the PC alone till I got there to set it up.

He plugged it in and started the install and then got confused and unplugged it.
When I got there it was in an endless boot-loop.

I had to use the Restore Disk to take it back to Factory Fresh.
I was pleasingly surprised to see it was a Ghost Restore Disk.

Keep us informed as to how that restore goes......

Cheers Mate!
The Doctor Cool

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

Not sure if he had to buy them or not. The last I talked to him he was in the process of trying to get them to send him some for free. Will find out when I go to finish the repair. Will let you all know.

BTW: for no more than it would have cost, ($25 expedited), to me, it would have been worth just buying them & saving the hassle. - & 2, with image files, I too, very seldom use restore disks any more. But a DRIVERS DISK is like GOLD! (when I need it)

reynodan · Joined: Mar 10, 2003 Posts: 2

I had to rebuild a Toshiba Laptop over the holidays. It was an A100 and I needed XP Pro drivers. I couldn't find them on the Toshiba website, but then came across the Canadian Toshiba support website here:

http://support.toshiba.ca/support/download/ln_bymodel.asp

and was able to find my model number and download everything I needed. You didn't say whether this was in the US or Canada, so thought I would mention this.

Good Luck.

Baby_Tux · Joined: Mar 06, 2007 Posts: 1242

Well we FINALLY got the disk (free) & everything went pretty smooth. But for some reason there appeared to be no video driver on the CD. The recovery didn't load one & I couldn't manually find / load one from it, so ended up getting one from Toshiba's site (which I'd luckily found before when trying to find drivers)

Now he is all back up & running & has an image file to fall back on just in case.
Plus I have him ready to do image backups on his own.

Thanks to all for all your input.

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 2240 Location: Central FL, USA

That's great.!!!!
I'm so glad to hear of your success Very Happy

Just for general information:
I just installed a WD 200 gig IDE drive in my "AirLink 101" 5.25" external enclosure. It can use FireWire or USB and I decided to use FireWire because it's like 4x faster than USB.

Well after turning on my 1394 port on my mobo, I made all the connections and tried to do a Ghost 2003 backup.
Ooooops! Ghost 2003 could not even see that FireWire drive. Too old.

I then tried Ghost 11.5 , booted from a Flash Drive (which I use for Vista) and everything went off without a hitch.
I did a Disk to Disk (clone) of my main drive to the External Drive.
My 34 gigs of data (my entire main drive) were transferred in just 40 minutes.

I just mention this because I know there are a lot of users out there still using Ghost 2003, like I have. It just doesn't have built in drivers for FireWire.

Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?
The Doctor Cool