Hello,

May I borrow or have a Windows XP Home or Professional (I prefer XP Pro) restore CD for a Toshiba P305 laptop? If you don't have the CD, would you know who might? Alternatively, how may I create the CD? The laptop currently has Windows Vista Home Premium installed.

I want Windows XP because some of my computer accessories (e.g., old external hard drive) may not work using Vista (so far, only XP drivers are available for them). Although Vista also has other issues, such as being a memory hog, I can live with those.

Thank you so much!

No.

you can acquire such a cd by buying a copy of windows xp. vista home premium does not include downgrade rights, so you are not entitled to run xp on that machine unless you have a separate license for it.

killme2 said:"May not work" as in you haven't tried? Some XP drivers will work in Vista.

yes. im trying to guess if there will be issues when i get the laptop and plug in a 40gb iomagic gigabank elite portable hard drive to transfer my hard drive files to the computer. since i dont want to, or can afford to, buy a copy of windows xp, i guess ill have to keep vista.