How to format toshiba satellite L200 or reset. no country stated, and is not sold in USA.

No country stated and no OS stated at all wow.
a 2 decade old PC /? REALLY?(12 years best guess)
no usa books so carbon14 dating it is hard.
and is first in my book. and CPU next.

ONE GUY AT TOMS-HW SAID IT IS EUROPE PC.
and in asia, and down under, and maybe africa.
but NOT here (USA)
the web site called toshiba.com
covers all that, we are not THEM.

all we can do is point or read the manual to you.
no symptoms posted by you, at all.
new hdd
OLD HDD has xp on it and is infected
old hdd dead. what to do?
up grading hdd to ssd. (yah)
what the problems are , is key, in ALL CASES

page 69 pdf covers this
it mandates a CDRrom recovery
there is no , recovery partition on this very old PC. worth near zero now.
the L100 is 2 decades old with windows 2000 loaded

If the hdd is ok
then there is a hot keyfor what is called
full day 1 factory recovery
or windows recovery.

L200 is missing on usa toshiba web site,
why, you not in uSA that it? wow if true.
i look in ebay see 1 , l200 i UK
so are you in UK and playing lets ask yanks
about PC they dont have?
sure.
lets go to toshiba uk, now, here we go
bingo uk
i see L100 but not 200s, are you in india or S.africa, english speaking countries, why must i beg?

the L100 book may work,, (can)
lets read that now.
its in consumer obsolete.
http://www.toshiba.co.uk/support/my-product/laptops/


10 year old manual English


LET ME GUESS,(WORST CASE)the cure.
fist ditch that dead huge relic battery keep it out. run on AC only, and win.

1: IN EUROPE (well not USA ) or where you are.
2: lost the toshiba CDrom install disk 12 or more years ago( marked VISTA Toshiba I bet)
3: hdd dead or missing or replaced and blank.
4: buy new HDD WORTH 10 TIMEs VALUE IF DEAD PC.
5; BUY a NEW OS media install kit NOW BROKE.or
5:cure is load free linux.
(i never advice pirate disks of any kind)

Toshiba Satellite L200-N400T?
there is always a dash numbered L200-nnnn
not all are the same, a fact for sure this topic
recovery.
newer models had recovery partitions.

the L300 is 2008
the L1oo is 2000 made
L200 , my guess 2007 made.

the L200 came with XP or vista and w7 is reported to fail installs on this pig.
so vista or linux works only. (or freedos)