hello all just a small question it may be somewhat silly but here it goes.
I have been given a toshiba tecra 8000. I have limited expereence with lap top nuances and I want to clear the drives and reinstall everything to my preferred comfigs the Q is do I just format and boot to a cd that has dos and how do i make sure that I can boot to the cd with out a floppy drive.

The other Q is the battery seems to be dead but the system doesn't even show it installed. Is this normal or should it show the battery as not charged? Does anyone now of any programs that will help with battery maintence (charge level, warnig to baterry end) I've googled for one but didn't see anything that seemed right

thanks for any suggestions

semper fi