How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain

the_phenom writes "Thinking of dual-booting your Windoze XP 17" Toshiba P25 laptop? Think again - this one 'uses a DVD with an already setup version of Windows XP Home and then transfers it to the notebook's hard drive,' preventing the normal setup procedure and thus, dual-booting." This reminds me of the unfriendly practice on some PC builders' parts of including an OS "backup" only on a hard-drive partition.

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You do not understand the problem

[SerpentMage]

Trust me on this one... You do not understand the problem.

It happened with my mothers notebook. When she bought it about four months ago she decided to visit me so that I could tune it.

First thing I did was wipe the disk and put on Windows XP (Linux was a bit much for her). So off I go installing...installing. After the initial install I manually installed all the drivers. Well I could tweak all I wanted, two or three things would not work. I was puzzled and said, Mom, I think you have a dud. This was bad since in a week she was about to fly to South America to visit my sister.

Then on a hunch I thought, lets play this game like Tosh says. I install off the DVD and guess what. EVERYTHING WORKED. I mean absolutely everything.

I looked at her configuration and thought, S**T they did a custom build job. What I REALLY find scary about this is that you cannot do proper backups and are subject to their rules when it comes to upgrading, etc. TOSH really screwed over their customer.

So, in fact the original poster has a point. Tosh is doing something they should not be doing... Result, do not buy a TOSH because you will be screwed...

Tosh is being a pain...

[SerpentMage]

It happened with my mothers notebook. When she bought it about four months ago she decided to visit me so that I could tune it.

First thing I did was wipe the disk and put on Windows XP Professional (Linux was a bit much for her). So off I go installing...installing. After the initial install I manually installed all the drivers. Well I could tweak all I wanted, two or three things would not work. I was puzzled and said, Mom, I think you have a dud. This was bad since in a week she was about to fly to South America to visit my sister.

Then on a hunch I thought, lets play this game like Tosh says. I install off the DVD and guess what. EVERYTHING WORKED. I mean absolutely everything.

I looked at her configuration and thought, S**T they did a custom build job. What I REALLY find scary about this is that you cannot do proper backups and are subject to their rules when it comes to upgrading, etc. TOSH really screwed over their customer.

So, in fact the original poster has a point. Tosh is doing something they should not be doing... Result, do not buy a TOSH because you will be screwed... Or TOSH just wants to sell you THEIR CD's...