Reformatting a Toshiba Portege m400 with xp or vista

Ive tried reformatting both windows XP and Vista on the Toshiba Portege M400, both without sucess.
For XP, Ive booted from CD, then at first I was having trouble getting the setup to acknowledge that there was a harddrive. Then I bought a USB floppy drive and installed the Toshiba RAID drivers by pressing f6 during setup. It loaded the file KR10I.sys. Then after formatting the partition and the installation began it gave me the prompt saying the KR10I.sys could not be read from the CD, even though it was loaded using the floppy. After pressing ESC to skip, it tells me that the CD is damaged and cannot be read. Ive tried this with two seperate XP disks so thats not the problem.
For Vista, the setup begins and gets to about roughly 90% and gives me the error code 0xc00000e0, also stating that either there is hardware corruption or a bad disk.
Any assistance or advice that you may offer would be greatly appreciated. It doesnt matter too much on which OS i get on the laptop so whichever is an easier fix. I would prefer XP however since I am more familliar with that OS.
Thanks in advance!

For starters...
Which Portege M400? What is the part number? Which country?
-Jerry

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I have found interesting Microsoft article about this issue. Please check it under http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917332/en-us
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