Satellite A300-15B: How to burn HDD recovery image & need Win XP drivers

I have bought an A300 15b laptop, and it comes with win Vista preinstalled
I would like to change my OS to Win XP.
After searching this forum I noticed that I have to make a back up DVD of the original Toshiba recovery.
I found the recover folder on E:\HDDRECOVERY .
Now can anyone help with "HOW to make this DVD ".
I mean if I burn the folder as it is will it be bootable?
Do I have to use an image burning software , or drug&drop will work??
Are drivers available for Win XP?
Thank you in advance .

1st i installed the intel chipset driver , after than i didnt install them in a particular order :(
i just made a restart and start installing the drivers , starting alphabetical i quess :)
is there an order that the drivers must be installed in order to work correctly ?
i have read on the forum 2-3 orders in witch ppl installed there drivers and there laptop worked so i didnt pay much attention i guess.
anyway apart from the controler and the fn keys , my laptop works just fine . ( havent tryed to read memory cards ) but everything else works just fine.
i have installed win xp SP3 .
i realy dont mined about the controler , but i want those fn keys to work.

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