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    Toshiba Satalite A200 Question. Please Help.

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by bashar20, Nov 14, 2007.

  1. bashar20

    bashar20 Notebook Enthusiast

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    G’day am considering buying the Toshiba Satalite A200 which comes with Windows Vista Premium preinstalled.

    I want to know if I will be able to:
    1. Dual boot with Windows XP.
    2. In case anything goes wrong and I decided to format the XP and Vista Partitions. Can I reinstall media direct, windows xp then windows vista (oem)
    3. will the FN keys work in both of windows XP and Vista (as per my knowledge there are different BIOS updates for XP and Vista)

    Kindly guide me to resources that guides in this process.
     
    bashar20, Nov 14, 2007
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    allan_huang Notebook Deity

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    1. Yes
    2. Yes, you can use the recovery disks/partition, but for XP, you need a slipstreamed version b/c it does not have the SATA HDD driver on the XP disk.
    3. Should work in Vista, not sure about Xp.
     
    allan_huang, Nov 14, 2007
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  3. bashar20

    bashar20 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Guys any expereince with this:
    will the FN keys work in both of windows XP and Vista (as per my knowledge there are different BIOS updates for XP and Vista) ???
     
    bashar20, Nov 15, 2007
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    they work in vista but i cant get them to work on xp!
    its sucks!
     
    dimiboy, Nov 15, 2007
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    bashar20 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any Sloution to make the FN keys work in BOTH Vista and XP ???
     
    bashar20, Nov 17, 2007
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