Install XP in Satellite A205-S5880?

This laptop comes with Windows Vista, but I wanted to switch to XP because it is more stable... but it seems that there are no drivers for XP for this laptop? What is this laptop is made for vista and vista only? as I know your free to always change to XP but then I found for XP drivers only as utilities. It is therefore impossible to install XP in this laptop? It would be totally stupid...

Hello

The A205 was made for the American market, and therefore you should search in the Toshiba page we some drivers Win XP.
http://www.CSD.Toshiba.com/cgi-bin/TAIS/support/JSP/home.jsp?NAV=download

The European Toshiba page provide XP drivers for European models (Satellite A200).

In some cases, the portable series different uses the same devices and so the drivers can operate on different laptops too.
So if you want you could test some drivers from the Toshiba XP driver European page designed for some different A200 models.

Best regards

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