Can I recovery Vista without the Toshiba Junk

Guys I just purchased a Satellite P105 S9339 from CompUSA. I really like the computer but hate all the junk that was installed besides Vista. Does anyone know if Toshiba will send/sell just Vista. The computer came with two DVD recovery disk but they reinstall everything like it was new out of the box. I just want Vista and the driver disk. I hope what I want would cost little. I will not spend another $250.00 for Vista Ultimate which Toshiba should allow you to install just by itself without their junk. I know with my old HP the recovery disk gave me option's on what not to install. I always installed a clean XP and built it from there with my favorite software.

 

Anyone.................

 

My Toshiba's pretty old, but it only reinstalled the factory image.

What you could do is locate an OEM Vista DVD and use the key from the bottom of your laptop to do a fresh install, and download all the drivers for it off the website.

- Trip

 

The previous post seems to be reasonable as long as the Toshiba MS Windows product key is not locked to the Toshiba OEM installation.

 

My princess has a toshiba and the cd that you get is the only thing you get. I tried an OEM xp to do exactly what you are doing and it didn't work. You can try but I am fairly certain that you are stuck with what you get with toshiba's.

 

Well, my Toshiba is approaching 4 years old and it worked with a standard OEM (not retail; I don't have any of those) XP CD last time I did that. In fact, every time I've done it. Maybe they've changed the way it's done now.

- Trip