Satellite Pro L300D-110 - Downgrade to XP Pro - HDD devices gone missing?

Hello to all in the Toshibe Satellite Pro forum - my first post.
I've been a happy owner of other Tosh laptops without any problems, but this time I'm unhappy :o(
We bought a Satellite Pro L300D 110 (AMD Athlon Dual Core) laptop just a few days ago for business use. We bought it on the understanding that it could be down-graded to XP Pro - mainly because some of the software we use on a daily basis won't run reliably on Vista, but also because all the other Desktops/Laptops in our network (includes a WLAN) are all running XP Pro, so adding another machine to it should've been easy.
The need to do this was confirmed by the fact despite everything I tried, we just could not get the new Toshiba L300D connecting via our routers whilst running Vista. At the same time, we also bought a new Dell with no O/S. I installed a new copy of OEM XP Pro SP2 - and it's running as sweet as a nut! Sorry, I digress:
I down-graded the L300D to XP Pro fine using the Toshiba XP Pro recovery disk supplied - no problems at all. I got the machine connecting to the network too, but then I realised that the DVD (Pioneer DVD-RW DVRTD08A ATA) was not being found by Windows.
Logged into the BIOS setup - yep, it was listed there OK, but trying a few nips and tucks I've learnt over the years, I still couldn't get XP Pro to discover the device.
I've now reinstalled Vista on the machine and it's found the DVD writer again.
If it were a PC, I'd shut down the machine, open up the case, disconnect the writer, boot up, shut down, reconnect the device, shut case and bingo. But not with a laptop maybe...
Does anyone have any ideas how to (reliably!) downgrade to XP Pro without devices disappearing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I do have two more new copies of XP Pro SP2 at my disposal, if that's any use.
Kind regards
David

>I'm happy again now :o)
Great to hear that!
Just for info:
The newer notebook series supports newer SATA HDD controllers and therefore the OS cannot be installed if the SATA drivers are not included and preinstalled.
So if you want to use the SATA features you need to install firstly the SATA driver.
But you can also turn the SATA mode to compatibility mode (in BIOS) and this would allow you to install the Win XP without the needed SATA drivers.
Bye

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