Portege M200 - bought on Ebay and frustation comes

Hello
I´m new here and I kindly ask for a warm welcome. I bought an M200 on Ebay and received it two days before. The M200 hasn t got a DVD drive and I dont have any Recovery CD or software for my Toshiba. I have a Toshiba slimline external PCMIA CD rom drive, but more of it later.
I found a lot of informations based on that topic but really nothing worked for me, that s why I ask my questions here. So far I will tell you what I have tried...
I have bought VISTA Home Premium and want it to install on my M200.
On my M200 FreeDOS runs.
I ve tried:
1. Use my USB stick as a floppy disk by using an HP Tool which simulates a USB Stick as a floppy disk ( FDD ). I ve copied the whole content of the Vista DVD to my USB Stick. Then I ran BIOS on M200, select FDD as first boot option, but nothing happens, it still boots FreeDOS.
What am I doing wrong, does USB ( Floppy )Boot work on M200?
2. Since there was an external Toshiba CD Drive included in my M200, I thought of first installing a Windows XP disk. In first times the drive seemed not to work, but after a few time it worked and I putted my Windows XP on it. It loaded the disk and the typical blue screen for start of installation came. But after a few seconds it stopped and said " couldnt read data xxxxxx.xx, Error 7. I tried it two more times and same error appeared, only that it was sometimes other file that couldnt be read and other Error number.
I ve read and I dont know if that is right:
I red somewhere that I can install only Windows XP that was used on recovery CD of Toshiba ( That CD wasnt included in my M200 ). So can I only use for OS install the recovery CD and no other normal XP CDs?
Or is there an error with my CD external drive? At this moment, it doesn t work again.....
3.
I red the following link for installing Vista on M200 by an PXE Server:
http://flimflan.com/blog/InstallingVistaOnYourToshibaM200.aspx
and this one
http://home.allegiance.tv/~joem298/
The first link says that I can start from point 13 from the second link:
Buut, and this is what annoys me. They tell me. Turn your Toshiba M200 on and press F2 to select the network. I press F2 but nothing happens, I can see the Toshiba logo but nothing happens..... If I press enter then I come again to FreeDOS....
Also on the second link, I tried to start from point 1. But at point 5 the say:
Unzip the contents of 'BFD full package v1.0.7.zip' into a temporary directory. Open a command prompt and browse to that temporary folder. Run the command 'bfd msnet' in order to create the bootable floppy.
I dont have a floppy drive. They tell me to run bfd.msnet from the command. By command is cmd.exe meant? If yes, what do I have to type in to get bfd.msnet run?
I knew that installation would be very difficult and I kindly ask for personal help. If you can speak german it would be great to answer in german.
So far
BeeDee

The help you need is here:
http://blog.ryantadams.com/2008/02/01/how-to-boot-from-the-network-pxe-boot-with-tftp-and-windows-pe/
You need another machine with a DVD drive that is running the network remote boot code for something called PXE and then you can load something called Windows PE - (preinstallation environment).
This is like a basic Windows system then you can then run the Vista setup program.
(We used to use a DOS disc but that usually didn't have networking or DVD drivers included. Windows PE replaces this and is more comprehensive).
It takes while for Windows PE to load - ie several minutes but it does eventually and then you can connect to the second machines DVD drive that contains the VISTA disk.
The link above tells you how to do all this and provides the PXE programs and the Win PE programs.
I know it works because I have used it myself just last week to install Windows 7 beta on my M200. (But this needs old XP drivers to get the screen and wireless working).
Don't try and load XP onto an M200 because you won't get the tablet screen functions working. You need either XP Tablet, Vista or Windows 7 which all have Tablet functions built in.
Good luck.
RobbieG

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