The Story of my old Toshiba Notebook

In August, I went across the country to visit some family, and while I was there I found a Toshiba Satellite A40 PSA40C-07VH3 Notebook. For some reason, this laptop's model number does not appear on the Wikipedia page for this series, but when I found it it had a 2.7GHz Intel Celeron, 2GB of RAM(which is the maximum size supported by this motherboard), and an empty IDE hard drive bay.

At first I did not know what to do, nobody makes PATA hard drives anymore, but after some expert googling by me, i found the most cost effective option was to buy one of these adapters with a 128GB SD Card from Amazon, and it seemed to work well, until it came to actually turning it on in a usable state.

While this computer does have 4 USB ports, it cannot boot from them. This laptop can only boot from the IDE port, CD/DVD, Floppy Disk(which it doesn't have a drive for), PC Card, and PXE. I trying (and failing) to boot the Windows XP setup through PXE for weeks, I finally caved in and bought a DVD burner and spool of CD-R discs from Staples(I don't know why they still sell them either). So after 5 months of having this laptop, I was finally ready to play Minesweeper and read My Immortal the way god intended.