Drivers Won't Install after Upgrade to XP Pro

I have a Satellite M70 that came with XP Home. I recently got a new hard drive, so decided to install Pro instead. Of course the recovery cd is not useful as it only has a single image and has to reformat and reinstall Home.

I have downloaded all drivers from Toshiba, but several of them won't install. I get the message "you can not install that version into your system." They are the XP version, but for some reason, don't seem to want to install in Pro.

Has anyone else encountered this and solved it?

 

What is your full model number? I can't even find a Satellite M70 on the US Toshiba site. Give me the full number and your country...

Just to mention, your XP home drivers should work fine with XP pro. The recovery cd that came with it has always worked fine for me. I use XP Pro as well w/ a Home recovery disc. When the computer is booted and in Windows pop the CD in the computer. FOR ME, the cd drive gets noisy and shakes and sounds like it is eating the disc for about 45 seconds, then pops up a menu allowing me to install individual drivers and software. Try it.

 

It's a Canadian model: M70 PSM73C - CL100E

My recovery disk would work fine. It's just that I wanted to put Pro on and I don't have an upgrade version of that, so I couldn't recover XP Home, I had to do a clean install. The recovery disk only has a single image file, so drivers and software can not be taken individually. The only option is to reformat and reinstall Home, and all of the software; after formatting.

I know that the drivers should work for both, but they don't and I am lost as to why. I am wondering if maybe the recovery cd installs some files that the Toshiba utilities need, but have no idea what they would be. I have installed everything I could download.

 

from personal experience trying to recover drivers and utilities without a recovery disk via downloading them from toshibas website is just a pain. For some reason it always seemed to end bad for me with random error messages galore.

I'm not sure about this but does the winxp pro disk give you the option of upgrading instead of doing a fresh install?

 

It seems strange that Toshiba would have made your recovery disc so usless and mine so helpfull.

When you put the disc in your computer while Windows is running this window doesn't pop up? :

 

I got the same problem !

My system Satellite A105 S4384 . After I install
winXP. I download drivers from Toshiba support side drivers working are OK . But only NIC driver
is not work ! I wonder why Toshiba put driver is not coherent with model ?

 

try getting the wireless driver from intels website (assuming its a intel wireless card), that one worked for me better.

 

try to re-install the driver, but first uninstall the current driver.