Use of Recovery disks

Hi,
I am trying to reload a Satellite 1415-S173. I have the startup disks but no way to install them. The DVD-ROM is broken and the computer won't read an external DVD player on a USB port. Can the startup disks be broken down into floppies? Is there documentation on starting through a LAN? Any other way of restoring?
TIA,
Marty

The user created Windows Vista Business recovery discs are for re-installing Windows Vista, if you want to re-install Windows Vista, after having used the Windows XP Pro recovery discs that ship with a 3000 N200 notebook.
The Windows XP Pro discs restore the notebook to a condition as though it had been factory shipped solely with Windows XP. Using them destroys the Vista recovery partition, replacing it with an XP recovery partition.
Using the Windows Vista recovery discs, wipes out Windows XP and returns the notebook to being a Windows Vista one including re-creating he Windows Vista recovery partition.
Jenifur Charne
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> I have 1 recovery disk that came with my equium, haven't used it before.
>On the back of the recovery disk envelope it says "insert the first disk"
>I'm assuming there should be a second?
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the recovery partition is somehow for fixing a problem
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or is there some overlap?
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is "Safe Mode" something completely different
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