Always good to see older hardware and I'm surprised that a device of this age was done in a tablet form! Regarding the CPU - yes I know how slow it was, I had a Fujitsu Lifebook with the only slightly better Pentium M 760, which was also 2GHz IIRC, and also 1 core only. You can also get mSATA to IDE adapters, for an mSATA SSD - this may actually be more viable now SSDs are coming down in price, and IDE HDDs are more difficult to find.
Excellent video. I just bought one just identical at a flea market. Mine has the keyboard distribution in arabic, but it's a pity that doesn't turn on. I wanted to run and test light linux distros on it. At least your video shows how it looks working in 2023.
Hey bro, I have the base for this laptop. I was thinking of getting an SSD for it. Do you know if I can install Linux on it w the computer base? What Debian OS did u get 11? I have a spare SSD not msata do you think if I buy an SSD to IDE adapter that it could fit? THANKYOU for help, currently it has a blue screen of death w windows xp
There are many different kinds of SSD, for example IDE SSD, SATA SSD, MSATA SSD, NVME SSD... I haven't tried any of them with this computer (with or without IDE adapter), but if it fits in that space it should work. You can install the newest Debian 12 32-bit: www.debian.org/distrib/ (if you don't know which one to choose, get "32-bit PC netinst iso")
@@TheComputerGuy96 thanks bro I ended up getting a msata adapter to IDE and a 128 gb SSD. Should come next week. Going to look at the link for Debian 12. I was thinking lubuntu 18.04 but it’s going to be end of life soon. Did you update the RAM? I heard the max ram is 2GB? Also if the cmos battery dies should I replace it? Did yours cmos battery died? I also would love to see you play need for speed underground of some old games on it
Lubuntu 18.04 was nice when it was new, but now it's unsupported. Debian 12 is one of the newest Linux distributions compatible with this old computer. The RAM on the M200 can be upgraded to 2 GB (two 1 GB RAM sticks). I haven't replaced the CMOS battery in mine, it still seems to hold a charge for now. I'm not a big gamer so I don't have many video games to show in my videos.
I just got one of these and I'm wondering if I can turn it into a retro gaming rig. I really don't know what I can use it for. Maybe as a tablet to read my eBooks?
Hi, it's me again. I managed to repair my portege m200, it had a defective mosfet and I replaced it. Now it turns on and even the battery works for half an hour! But now I have another problem. The laptop comes with its original system (WXP for tablets) and has a password, I have tried some tricks but they have not worked. So I decided to install another OS but on my way to install another OS, the laptop has not recognized bootable usb memory, sd card and usb floppy drive. I have read in some forums about installing other OS in this generation of toshibas and seems that those damned Toshibas are INCREDIBLY PICKY when it comes to what they will and will not boot from. That is why I want to ask you, how did you manage to install other OS? Greetings.
Yes, it is complicated. I wanted to show it in the video, but it was already too long. On this Portégé you can normally boot from USB optical drive or USB floppy drive, not USB flash drive. There's a special option: the floppy drive option also lets you boot from a floppy disk image on an SD card (not a bootable SD card). It has to be a floppy disk image file called $TOSFD00.VFD on a regular old SD card (not SDHC or SDXC). To boot from a USB flash drive, you can do a workaround with the Plop Boot Manager on a CD or floppy or SD card. Personally I think the SD card way is easier. You can set the boot order in the BIOS to FDD-HDD-CDROM-LAN which is the most convenient option out of the few that are available. (Again, FDD is also SD card) To do this workaround, download Plop Boot Manager www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html (download plpbt-5.0.15.zip), extract plpbt.img (you don't need the other files), put it on a FAT formatted SD card, and rename it to $TOSFD00.VFD (the extension .img must be renamed too). Then insert the SD card in the Portégé and boot from floppy. Plop should start. Insert your USB flash drive and select "USB" in Plop, but do not just press Enter, press Shift+Enter. If you select it normally it freezes. Pressing Shift+Enter uses USB 1.1 which is much slower but it's the only way it works on this computer.
@@TheComputerGuy96 Thanks, I was just checking that. I found a forum from the year 2019 where it explains a bit how to install an OS in the portege and mentions the plop manager but never mentions what type of memory and size. But now that you mention it I'll try to see if I have any usb 1.1 sticks lying around. I have a 128mb micro SD that I have used with an SD memory adapter but the laptop does not recognize it. But anyway. I have to keep trying. It would have been great if in your video you commented on the difficult process of installing an OS on the portege. Perhaps not showing the process but commenting that it was a difficult process. But still, thank you very much for answering I appreciate it. Greetings.
To install Windows XP and 7 I used a USB optical drive with a CD/DVD (just plug it in and select CD in the F12 boot menu). To install Linux I used the SD card with Plop and a USB stick. Your 128 MB Micro SD card should work if it's in an SD card adapter in the built-in card reader. If it still doesn't work, format it as FAT and make sure the image file you copy to it is renamed correctly (turn off the option to hide file extensions so you can change .img to .VFD). You can use a USB 2.0 or 3.0 stick of any capacity, you just have to press Shift+Enter in Plop.
@@jesuscasillas630 I have the same Toshiba, still use it for some 2000 era games that don't work with Win10/11, but need something better than basic graphic card. My laptop never worked with booting from any USB drive. All the system reinstalling I did was I just took out the hard drive out, put it in other laptop with CD drive, installed XP, then swapped back the HDD. After swapping it back and booting up, it took around 5 minutes to recognise all the hardware and it worked flawlessly. If you don't have another laptop, there are 2 more options: 1. Boot from network (it supports PXE, there are some tutorials how to set up PXE server, but it's not the easiest way). 2. Install Windows XP in VirtualBox to VHD disk file, then connect the drive via one of those cheap USB-IDE44 converters and copy the VHD image to HDD (you will need a software for that, but just search for "VHD to HDD tool"). By the way, if you want to use SSD with it, you can get one of those cheap mSATA to IDE44 adapters and buy used 120GB mSATA SSD. It's going to cost 20$ max and speeds up everything a lot.
I like the fact that the screen looks like thoses drawing tablets that several artist uses
Always good to see older hardware and I'm surprised that a device of this age was done in a tablet form!
Regarding the CPU - yes I know how slow it was, I had a Fujitsu Lifebook with the only slightly better Pentium M 760, which was also 2GHz IIRC, and also 1 core only.
You can also get mSATA to IDE adapters, for an mSATA SSD - this may actually be more viable now SSDs are coming down in price, and IDE HDDs are more difficult to find.
Wow, even laptops this many years ago had pens and touchscreens
behold, the daddy of the lenovo yogas and hp x360s of this world
Excellent video. I just bought one just identical at a flea market. Mine has the keyboard distribution in arabic, but it's a pity that doesn't turn on. I wanted to run and test light linux distros on it. At least your video shows how it looks working in 2023.
Super good 😅😅
16:52 Publisher 2007 also doesn't have a ribbon, though it's not included in all editions.
I have one in 2010 with Windows XP :)
16:03 doesn't aero need 64 mb vram
i don't know but maybe it does so that's why it doesn't work
Hey bro, I have the base for this laptop. I was thinking of getting an SSD for it. Do you know if I can install Linux on it w the computer base?
What Debian OS did u get 11?
I have a spare SSD not msata do you think if I buy an SSD to IDE adapter that it could fit?
THANKYOU for help, currently it has a blue screen of death w windows xp
There are many different kinds of SSD, for example IDE SSD, SATA SSD, MSATA SSD, NVME SSD... I haven't tried any of them with this computer (with or without IDE adapter), but if it fits in that space it should work.
You can install the newest Debian 12 32-bit: www.debian.org/distrib/ (if you don't know which one to choose, get "32-bit PC netinst iso")
@@TheComputerGuy96 thanks bro I ended up getting a msata adapter to IDE and a 128 gb SSD. Should come next week. Going to look at the link for Debian 12. I was thinking lubuntu 18.04 but it’s going to be end of life soon. Did you update the RAM? I heard the max ram is 2GB? Also if the cmos battery dies should I replace it? Did yours cmos battery died?
I also would love to see you play need for speed underground of some old games on it
Lubuntu 18.04 was nice when it was new, but now it's unsupported. Debian 12 is one of the newest Linux distributions compatible with this old computer.
The RAM on the M200 can be upgraded to 2 GB (two 1 GB RAM sticks).
I haven't replaced the CMOS battery in mine, it still seems to hold a charge for now.
I'm not a big gamer so I don't have many video games to show in my videos.
Update, successfully installed new SSD and waiting for and IDE to usb cable to run Debian 12.
I love your videos on this laptop 🫡
I just got one of these and I'm wondering if I can turn it into a retro gaming rig. I really don't know what I can use it for. Maybe as a tablet to read my eBooks?
also what are those gadgets in xp i can't find them anywhere
some rainmeter gadgets amstereo.org/files/wingadgets.zip
Hi, it's me again. I managed to repair my portege m200, it had a defective mosfet and I replaced it. Now it turns on and even the battery works for half an hour! But now I have another problem. The laptop comes with its original system (WXP for tablets) and has a password, I have tried some tricks but they have not worked. So I decided to install another OS but on my way to install another OS, the laptop has not recognized bootable usb memory, sd card and usb floppy drive. I have read in some forums about installing other OS in this generation of toshibas and seems that those damned Toshibas are INCREDIBLY PICKY when it comes to what they will and will not boot from. That is why I want to ask you, how did you manage to install other OS? Greetings.
Yes, it is complicated. I wanted to show it in the video, but it was already too long. On this Portégé you can normally boot from USB optical drive or USB floppy drive, not USB flash drive.
There's a special option: the floppy drive option also lets you boot from a floppy disk image on an SD card (not a bootable SD card). It has to be a floppy disk image file called $TOSFD00.VFD on a regular old SD card (not SDHC or SDXC).
To boot from a USB flash drive, you can do a workaround with the Plop Boot Manager on a CD or floppy or SD card.
Personally I think the SD card way is easier. You can set the boot order in the BIOS to FDD-HDD-CDROM-LAN which is the most convenient option out of the few that are available. (Again, FDD is also SD card)
To do this workaround, download Plop Boot Manager www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html (download plpbt-5.0.15.zip), extract plpbt.img (you don't need the other files), put it on a FAT formatted SD card, and rename it to $TOSFD00.VFD (the extension .img must be renamed too). Then insert the SD card in the Portégé and boot from floppy. Plop should start. Insert your USB flash drive and select "USB" in Plop, but do not just press Enter, press Shift+Enter. If you select it normally it freezes. Pressing Shift+Enter uses USB 1.1 which is much slower but it's the only way it works on this computer.
@@TheComputerGuy96 Thanks, I was just checking that. I found a forum from the year 2019 where it explains a bit how to install an OS in the portege and mentions the plop manager but never mentions what type of memory and size. But now that you mention it I'll try to see if I have any usb 1.1 sticks lying around. I have a 128mb micro SD that I have used with an SD memory adapter but the laptop does not recognize it. But anyway. I have to keep trying. It would have been great if in your video you commented on the difficult process of installing an OS on the portege. Perhaps not showing the process but commenting that it was a difficult process. But still, thank you very much for answering I appreciate it. Greetings.
To install Windows XP and 7 I used a USB optical drive with a CD/DVD (just plug it in and select CD in the F12 boot menu). To install Linux I used the SD card with Plop and a USB stick.
Your 128 MB Micro SD card should work if it's in an SD card adapter in the built-in card reader. If it still doesn't work, format it as FAT and make sure the image file you copy to it is renamed correctly (turn off the option to hide file extensions so you can change .img to .VFD). You can use a USB 2.0 or 3.0 stick of any capacity, you just have to press Shift+Enter in Plop.
@@jesuscasillas630 I have the same Toshiba, still use it for some 2000 era games that don't work with Win10/11, but need something better than basic graphic card.
My laptop never worked with booting from any USB drive.
All the system reinstalling I did was I just took out the hard drive out, put it in other laptop with CD drive, installed XP, then swapped back the HDD.
After swapping it back and booting up, it took around 5 minutes to recognise all the hardware and it worked flawlessly.
If you don't have another laptop, there are 2 more options:
1. Boot from network (it supports PXE, there are some tutorials how to set up PXE server, but it's not the easiest way).
2. Install Windows XP in VirtualBox to VHD disk file, then connect the drive via one of those cheap USB-IDE44 converters and copy the VHD image to HDD (you will need a software for that, but just search for "VHD to HDD tool").
By the way, if you want to use SSD with it, you can get one of those cheap mSATA to IDE44 adapters and buy used 120GB mSATA SSD.
It's going to cost 20$ max and speeds up everything a lot.
I have a similar device running Windows 7
Where recovery disc
On archive.org/details/m200_20200122
Thank you
😂😂😂 what is this kids tab laptop
It looks like one of those kids' tablets, but back when it was new around 2005, it was quite expensive and designed for adults only.