I was give a link to a page to down load a driver for USB in DOS. The only problem is that the page in in Japanese and I cannot read that language. Is there no way around this problem????

Just wanted to say thank you for the article. I found it very informative and used the process described to revive an old Toshiba Portege system. I describe the 'ordeal' on a blog post at http://www.unaisiodu.wordpress.com under the heading My Toshiba Challenge (Five posts).
The particular variants of Motto Hairu's driver - DI1000DD.sys and the USBASPI.sys mass storage driver provided by Active Killdisk's system worked for me. Thanks again.

heh - just a trip down memory lane... ;-)

Curious, I decided to try and discover why that file was given that name. I found that it is actually a Japanese phrase meaning (roughly) 'more insert/enter'. Pages used were [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motto] & [http://www.jp41.com/kanji/hairu.html] for discovery, and [http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html] for verification.