"Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@nospam_informed-direct.com> wrote in message 
news:S6CdnT6gOMCfs-LZRVnytw@bt.com...
> We've just taken delivery of a Toshiba Portege R200 as a way of evaluating 
> Toshiba laptops esp. the small form factor. We've bought Dell Latitude X1 
> in the past but these don't (bizarrely) come with PCMCIA slots so we can't 
> use Vodafone 3G/GPRS cards.
>
> Anyway, that's not the point. As seems to be the case with modern 
> manufacturers, the laptop is loaded up with all sorts of crap (sorry 
> useful utilities) which we definitely don't want!! So we want to 
> re-install plain vanilla Windows XP Pro and take it from there - we have 
> our own build configuration.
>
> Apart from the laptop not coming with a CD/DVD drive (one up for Dell for 
> similar price), it's only come with a "Recovery CD". What does this 
> recovery CD contain? Is it a Windows XP Pro install CD or an image of the 
> laptop with all the useful stuff already installed. If the later, how does 
> one go about getting a CD-ROM for re-installation? I assume it's a OEM 
> Windows XP Pro license on there.
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>