Equium A300D - Parralled/Dual Boot OS's

Hello.
Yesterday I bought a A300D laptop and after setting it up I've found its rather slow. For example it will come up with "please wait" before showing you the log-in screen upon boot up. It takes around 2-4minuets at least just to let you log on. After that though. I've found its an ok machine, but I was wondering if I could go back to Windows XP. I don't dislike vista but I think that may be one of the causes for its slowness. I think that also. When I start installing my own software ect it will only get slower.
I've heard a lot about "dual booting" and I was wondering if it was possible on this laptop. I have 3 hard disks in this laptop.
Vista (C:) 117GB
WINRE (D:) 1.46Gb
Data (E:) 113GB
From what I've read I could use my Data (E:) for one operating system and (C:) For the other. Although I'm not entirely sure how to do it, or even if its possible to do on this laptop. I mean. say if it did work, and I got XP on one hard-disk would the XP Operating system use the laptop like vista does? Two-cores, the graphics ect.
I've really got a small list of questions to ask if that's ok. I'll list them out.
#1: is it possible to dual boot on a Toshiba A300D?
#2: is it possible to dual boot on separate hard-disks?
#3: if so, how do I go about setting it up?
#4: is there any special programs I need to do it?
#5: will XP use he computers features and hardware as well as vista?
I think that's the questions I really want asking for now. I'm still fairly new to computers. Thank you for reading and if it is possible please let me know. Thank you .once again.
Mallues. =)

Although I focused on dual-booting there, if there is a way to just install XP without vista at all., that would be massively helpful too. Thank you.

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The whole story is very interesting and I would like to help somehow. Your posting is pretty long with very useful information but, if I understand you right, you just want to install original Vista recovery image. Can you confirm this?
If you have more questions please ask one by one and then we can answer them one by one.
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First of all I recommend this articlen in your case:
[Which steps should be followed if your Toshiba notebook doesn't start?|http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/ann.jspa?annID=21]
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Toshiba support people,
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> Toshiba support people,
Firstly this is a user to user forum I doubt you will find an Toshiba people here
> I have a Toshiba Equium A300D that has suddenly decided to not power on - I have held down the power on/off button, held down control alt del, turned
it over to look for a reset button and found no button at all on the back - do not know if there is any other key command I can use to get it to boot up -
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Check it out and post the results.
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BTW, I wish the native Americans who post on here did as well as you have so you have to make no excuses for your English.
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hi Lashay
guessing you have xp on this unit try to reinstall bootfiles.
seems that windows has lost some files...
this could be software or a hardware issue...
"fixboot " and "fixmbr" on recovery console should do this job.
safest way is to get a new hdd and a hdd-usb-adapter!
install operating system on the new hdd,
then connect the old hdd using the usb-adapter to the new system and transfer all user files.
not the system files or maybe you will get the same trouble again!
if there is a serious problem on the hdd its getting worse with every attemp to read the disk...

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Ah! //Slaps head and goes to hide under a rock// :-D I guess that'd be the one on the front that obviously rests against my slightly rounded middle...? (I am in shape - round's a shape! ;-))
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//crawls under rock//
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Is it possible to disable the webcam toolbar on the Equium A300D

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Bye

Running Dual boot windows 8 and win 7 pro with xp mode installed!! I love it!!

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ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!

It's been many, many years since I don't do dual boot anymore. Don't find the reason to do it, either. Different kinds of virtualization should be enough. Anyway...
dfw1417 wrote:
It took over 2 days to figure out how to adjust the bios to get my win 7 pro DVD to boot and install dual boot on this GREAT MACHINE!!
ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!
WHICH machine?
Cheers.
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Since you've selected as default OS as Windows 8.1 you can go to disk management console and format the drive as required.
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