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. 
>