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Where can I download the drivers for Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT

I remembered that somewhere in my loft was an old 480CDT, found it, it still works (!)
I dont have anything other than whats on the hard disk, see photo
The next problem is it has no floppy, no network, I'll try a small USB stick to see if that works.
It has Windows Terminal, cant remember if that does xmodem or similar... hopefully it has winzip too
 

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Phil_G said:
I remembered that somewhere in my loft was an old 480CDT, found it, it still works (!)
I dont have anything other than whats on the hard disk, see photo
The next problem is it has no floppy, no network, I'll try a small USB stick to see if that works.
It has Windows Terminal, cant remember if that does xmodem or similar... hopefully it has winzip too
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please upload it to somewhere
 
ohmylove2u said:
I certainly visited this address. But all the files on that page are unavailable!
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There's a quick way to resolve this using the Wayback Machine and the Dynabook / Toshiba website to get the links. Essentially it seems that downloads for most Toshiba computers just get a 404 response now but they haven't taken down the pages with the broken links yet.

To get around this, you can use the wayback machine plugin in a browser or manually prefix the URL with the wayback machine i.e.
"https://content.us.dynabook.com/content/support/downloads/480snd98.exe" becomes
Code: 
https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://content.us.dynabook.com/content/support/downloads/480snd98.exe
This downloads the newest version of that file from the wayback machine / Internet Archive.
toshiba-downloads.png

Their download from the content.us.dynabook.com site was quite complete so you should be able to get every driver this way. It's extra steps but it works :)
 
Exactly what Thermalwrong said. It's a bit more effort, but as far as I can tell *all* downloads from Toshiba's website have been archived. Now as for installing them... it gets a bit tricky sometimes in my experience. You might have to install them in a particular order. It depends on the exact machine and OS you have, but 2K has been a bit more picky about it than 9x for me. Also reboot after each driver installation when prompted! It'll save you lots of BSODs and headaches, trust me.
 
A sad update to this - first the driver files were gone, now the database entries, metadata & links for those files are gone. There's no way to get driver files for these models from Dynabook any more and the dodgy driver sites don't seem to be much good for these either.

Best solution right now for Toshiba laptops is to use this archive jamesfw recently put together:
https://archive.org/details/toshibalaptopdrivers
This looks like it took a lot of work and seems complete for lots of models, so check it out if you need drivers for your Toshiba laptop - to use it click on "SHOW ALL" under the DOWNLOAD OPTIONS, find your model in the list and either download the zip file or click "View Contents" to find and download individual files.
 
it was only a matter of time till they removed the links as well. some downloads themselves actually worked in 2023, but all the files were removed in '24 i believe. great that jamesfw did all the work to preserve them in a neat archive.
 
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