I made a new folder on C Drivers so that I could expand them there and confine clutter for what I knew might be a very cocky and lengthy process of driver shotgunning.
Once I had that, I used the MUCH faster method of a camera memory card to get the other drivers onto the laptop, trying a driver one at a time and crossing fingers that I could knock one more missing device off the list. I burned those to a CD and used that to get the memory card reader and USB ports working. TC50128900E.exe for the USB filter driver SO, I went to those two sites, helped along by various commentary I read on various computer support forums, and ended up using from these specific drivers: On first boot, the wireless, wired ethernet, card reader, and SM bus were all dead and out due to drivers not being present. The most critical step was to get Windows 7 to install to start with, obviously, because I thought the hard disk might be DEAD (tried all the boot security suggestions and it DIDN'T work!) but the install went perfectly and was done before I knew it. Http //support/driversResults?freeText=3385527īasically, I used drivers from another version of the C855D laptop, and didn't pay much attention to whether or not they were Win7/32 drivers. you should be entitled to a means to restore your computer on your own and without extra cost if something fails, software wise, as has always been tradition.Īll that said, I just restored a totally corrupted Windows 8, C855D-S5315 laptop to Windows 7 32 bit using drivers I found here: You paid for your laptop, you paid for the software on it. Those disks should ALWAYS be included equipment when you buy a computer, and should never be used as a way to earn the company extra money. However, I totally do not like the way they have turned "self-support" into a cash cow by selling the recovery disks at $40 a pop. I love Toshiba - I think they make great hardware and I think they sell great laptops most of the time. So, very often, you can bypass the control exerted by the seller if you just know what to do and how to do it. How quickly people forget that while the name stamped all over the laptop is "Toshiba", the hardware inside it is made by a dozen different companies at least and probably only one or two of those bits are actual Toshiba manufactured hardware.
Toshiba is NOT the only answer, at least not for this particular problem.
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