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looking for save files and old drivers
Dear Group,
I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate the laptop. also i need modem driver. is can u tell me where can i get driver for it ? the laptop works in win 98 thank you, With regards Vinoth |
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"tech reader" wrote in
: Dear Group, I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate the laptop. also i need modem driver. is can u tell me where can i get driver for it ? the laptop works in win 98 thank you, With regards Vinoth Toshiba has made probably 2,000 laptop models. You are going to have to give people SLIGHTLY more specific info. Anyway, all anybody can tell you is to either go to the Toshiba site, or a site like www.driverguide.com, or just Google with something like "Toshiba [model#] [device] driver" and cross your fingers. The drivers may very well all be on the machine even though "it" claims it can't find them, but WHERE they are is another story. Laptop manuf's have an annoying habit of hiding everything rather well so the average user is forced to go through hell to get anything running. OTOH, sometime just letting Windows "search for an updated driver" on the HD does the trick. -- Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) |
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tech reader wrote:
Dear Group, I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate the laptop. also i need modem driver. is can u tell me where can i get driver for it ? the laptop works in win 98 thank you, With regards Vinoth Vinoth: Try looking he http://209.167.114.38/support/download/ln_bymodel.asp HTH & GL John -- \\\||/// ------------------o000----(o)(o)----000o---------------- ----------------------------()-------------------------- '' Madness takes its toll - Please have exact change. '' John Dulak - Gnomeway Services - http://tinyurl.com/2qs6o6 |
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What is the EXACT model of your Toshiba? They may still have the drivers
available for download. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "tech reader" wrote in message ... Dear Group, I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate the laptop. also i need modem driver. is can u tell me where can i get driver for it ? the laptop works in win 98 thank you, With regards Vinoth |
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"tech reader" wrote in message ... Dear Group, I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate the laptop. also i need modem driver. is can u tell me where can i get driver for it ? the laptop works in win 98 thank you, With regards Vinoth I usually get my drivers from www.driverguide.com the registration is free |
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Dear Group,
Thank you Philo , Thanatoid, Gary S. Terhune, John Dulak, the laptop model is sattelite 2140 i have downloaded the drivers from driveguide.com and the thoshiba support, the problem was solved. My hearty thanks to the group again. I have one doubt. i am a new user to the usenet / foarm. i cant understand the hierarchy of the group. if possible can u explain ? What is the meaning of MS-MVP Shell/User, which Mr. Gary used ? i assume MS - Microsoft MVP Shell/ User means wat ? any how thanks again to all of you for spending ur time and effort to solve my problem. best regards Vinoth "thanatoid" wrote in message ... "tech reader" wrote in : Dear Group, I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate the laptop. also i need modem driver. is can u tell me where can i get driver for it ? the laptop works in win 98 thank you, With regards Vinoth Toshiba has made probably 2,000 laptop models. You are going to have to give people SLIGHTLY more specific info. Anyway, all anybody can tell you is to either go to the Toshiba site, or a site like www.driverguide.com, or just Google with something like "Toshiba [model#] [device] driver" and cross your fingers. The drivers may very well all be on the machine even though "it" claims it can't find them, but WHERE they are is another story. Laptop manuf's have an annoying habit of hiding everything rather well so the average user is forced to go through hell to get anything running. OTOH, sometime just letting Windows "search for an updated driver" on the HD does the trick. -- Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) |
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There is no hierarchy. There are no moderators in the MS newsgroups, and
very few messages are removed for cause (profanity, legal issues, etc.) by the MS administrators. Microsoft MVP (MS-MVP). The MVP part stands for Most Valuable Professional. Put simply, people who hang in these groups and consistently answer questions in a professional manner, MAY get awarded the MVP status by MS. We DO NOT work for MS (employees and contractors can't be MVPs) , many of us don't even like MS, and in fact, we tend to slam them when they need slamming. For more info, see he http://mvp.support.microsoft.com I was awarded at the end of 1999, and I've spent all my efforts in this and the other Win98 groups, almost exclusively. Naturally, nobody is getting the MVP Award for work in the Win9x groups anymore. You don't always know if someone is an MVP -- it's an Award for past behavior and requires no further commitments. All they offer are some small gifts (and one large one -- MSDN and/or TechNet). Besides that, we have a convention every 18 months or so and have pretty direct access to MS techs. We also tend to participate heavily in product development via very early beta testing. Personally, I am repeatedly amazed that they bother to give me the Award anymore. I used to post a few hundred messages daily. These days, I'm lucky if it's a hundred a month. I'm glad you got your issues figured out. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "tech reader" wrote in message ... Dear Group, Thank you Philo , Thanatoid, Gary S. Terhune, John Dulak, the laptop model is sattelite 2140 i have downloaded the drivers from driveguide.com and the thoshiba support, the problem was solved. My hearty thanks to the group again. I have one doubt. i am a new user to the usenet / foarm. i cant understand the hierarchy of the group. if possible can u explain ? What is the meaning of MS-MVP Shell/User, which Mr. Gary used ? i assume MS - Microsoft MVP Shell/ User means wat ? any how thanks again to all of you for spending ur time and effort to solve my problem. best regards Vinoth "thanatoid" wrote in message ... "tech reader" wrote in : Dear Group, I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate the laptop. also i need modem driver. is can u tell me where can i get driver for it ? the laptop works in win 98 thank you, With regards Vinoth Toshiba has made probably 2,000 laptop models. You are going to have to give people SLIGHTLY more specific info. Anyway, all anybody can tell you is to either go to the Toshiba site, or a site like www.driverguide.com, or just Google with something like "Toshiba [model#] [device] driver" and cross your fingers. The drivers may very well all be on the machine even though "it" claims it can't find them, but WHERE they are is another story. Laptop manuf's have an annoying habit of hiding everything rather well so the average user is forced to go through hell to get anything running. OTOH, sometime just letting Windows "search for an updated driver" on the HD does the trick. -- Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) |
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"tech reader" wrote in
: Dear Group, Thank you Philo , Thanatoid, Gary S. Terhune, John Dulak, the laptop model is sattelite 2140 i have downloaded the drivers from driveguide.com and the thoshiba support, the problem was solved. My hearty thanks to the group again. How nice to have someone actually express thanks. You're welcome and thank YOU. I have one doubt. i am a new user to the usenet / foarm. "forum" i cant understand the hierarchy of the group. if possible can u explain ? Not sure what you mean by "hierarchy". There are people more or less officially qualified to give advice, like Mr. Terhune, although some of them often just point you to MS sites for help. Mr. Terhune has actually produced a (presumably) very useful 2 CD-R set of updates for 98 so he has done much more than some others. There are people who are not crazy about MS but use it anyway because they're too old to learn Linux, like me, who look at things a little radically in comparison to the MVP's etc. I point to /other/ sites than MS which usually (IMO) contain better and less biased info. Not to mention MS pages are huge and difficult to wade through (not unlike some of their products). There is the occasional poster who just thinks s/he knows the answer - sometimes very useful, sometimes a total waste of time or worse. There are people who know an awful lot but post VERY rarely. The person who has solved problems that bugged me for YEARS and others which no one could even scratch at is Franc Zabkar (hope you don't mind the public endorsement, Franc). What is the meaning of MS-MVP Shell/User, which Mr. Gary used ? i assume MS - Microsoft MVP Shell/ User means wat ? MVP - Most Valuable Professional - a (non-monetary) "prize" title given yearly to people who have given (presumably) very good support (on and off MS internet forums etc.) to users trying to find their way through the "logical" and "quality" software MS produces and sells at vastly inflated prices. Sometimes I think the title is fairly meaningless, sometimes I think it's a pat on the back to people who toe the line, sometimes I think it is well deserved. Who knows. Shell/User - no idea. Shell is one of the terms for the Windows graphical interface, user is user, what the combo means I know not but I am sure someone else will enlighten us. -- Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) |
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