Good luck!  You should be fine, formatting a laptop is the same as 
formatting a regular PC, but if you run into anything just post here, we 
might be able to help.

"Larry LaMere" <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in message 
news:alno72dqugn618ljs8dr2715ldlonulhul@4ax.com...
> OK, thanks. If I can get an old hard drive and caddy I'm going to pull out 
> the one in the machine
> and store it. (It has WinXP Pro on it and I don't want to delete it.) And 
> give installing 98SE a
> try.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2006 18:36:48 -0400, "Smith" <rangerxlt92@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>You should have no trouble installing a retail version.  I reformatted my
>>Tecra 8100 and used a regular old Windows 98SE CD for the install.  Then
>>later I reformatted again and installed Windows 2000 using another retail
>>CD.  Whoever had trouble must have done something wrong...
>>
>>As for the drivers, I think the only ones I ended up downloading and
>>installing were the sound and video ones, all the extra utilities and such
>>are not necessary.
>>
>>Smith
>>
>>"Larry LaMere" <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in message
>>news:b21m72df6gmncftv22hg6h1n05bckaas5k@4ax.com...
>>> On Sun, 28 May 2006 10:25:49 -0700, "Cari" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>You might be able to find a retail one on EBay but I'm pretty sure 
>>>>Toshiba
>>>>won't have any left, it's out of support.  You will still be able to use
>>>>the
>>>>retail version... and then download the utilities and drivers from the
>>>>Toshiba website.
>>>>-- 
>>>>Cari (MS-MVP)
>>>>Printing & Imaging
>>>>http://www.coribright.com/windows
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Larry LaMere" <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:cqri72plk6m9edkv33i9m1dn9obn6tgd06@4ax.com...
>>>>> Pretty much says it all. I couldn't find a place to ask on the Toshiba
>>>>> website.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> Would there be a problem if I downloaded and installed all of them 
>>> (except
>>> the ones for linux,if
>>> any). What I'd like to do is make a CD that has all the windows drivers
>>> but don't want to do that
>>> if, for instance, a Win 2000 driver would conflict with a Win 98 driver
>>> installed on the same
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> I read in the comp.sys.win98 newsgroup that someone had tried to install
>>> Win 98 SE retail version on
>>> a Toshiba Tecra 8000 (same as mine) and it wouldn't work.
>>
>