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For some reason, in the last day Toshiba laptop wont boot up normally. After I log on, nothing will actually work. The only thing I can do is move the cursor around. Not everything fully loads like it normally does either.

To "fix" this or what I thought would, I booted up in safe mode and did a system restore which worked perfectly fine until I had start it up again and I'm back to square one.

Any thoughts???
 
Is the screen displaying everything normally or is it blank? If things are up normally, I say you have a corruption with your HD. Bad sectors or something like that. Did you do windows restore or toshiba factory restore?

To do factory restore turn your computer off, when you turn it on, hold down the 0 key and you can restore to factory settings. You will lose all your files though but this has a high probability of success.

Should that not work, your issue is Hardware. My guess in order of likelihood is: Hard Disk; RAM; Motherboard.

Hope that helps.
 
If you did a system (windows save point restore) you've probably just bought whatever the issue was back again... If it runs okay in safe mode, it's a software issue. Something is likely loading at start up and crashing windows. Any new software installed lately ?

I think Tosh have diagnostics for hardware issues... or check the hard drive for errors in safe mode (or by booting from the windows install CD), but I'd still be leaning towards it being software related.
 
Yeah I did the restore point from the last windows update. Thats the only thing thing that has been installed for a while. Should I try a date prior to this?
 
Back up any important stuff, and try an earlier restore point... Can you try and run scandisk from safe mode ?
 
I had a similar prob few weeks ago, desktop would load and then take forever to load something or just stay on the hour glass.

It took me 14 hours to fix (Im no tech) by scouring net for solutions on my phone.

Basically took three programs (one free, one free 14 day trial, one $10), now pc works fine :thumbsup:

First, run in safe mode

and download, install and run

CCLeaner - FREE
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Then I did the same for Superantispyware - free edition is trial

http://www.superantispyware.com/

My PC then started to work much better but after a day or two would stuff up again, I defraged and all that through windows and didnt make any diff.

I then downloaded the FREE scan from http://www.speedypc.com/

and saw a whole bunch of stuff as issues.... Now usually there Scans are more SCAMS and they show a bunch of stuff thats not there to get you to buy program. This is not like that as I made sure I did my research before hand. I also defraged through SpeedyPC and unlike doing it through windows it seemed to actually work - don't ask why, not sure.

I am in no way affiliated with any of these programs, I receive no $$$ if you decide use them, they worked for my computer and saved me a lot of $$$ as I was just gonna buya new PC, they may not work for you but man if this wasn't the best $10 I ever spent I don't know what is.... Like I said it took me 14+ hours of trial and error and research over about 3-4 days and tha doesn't include the hours some of the scans took and If I had this info I would have been done in a few hours
 
Get your movies/music/files off. Turn off machine. Hold '0'. Turn on machine. Restore to factory defaults. Win.
 
No winning....

Sorted out the initial problem of the booting up, but now there appears to be more problems. I gave AVG the ass as I thought since it had a major update just before the initial problems I'd get rid of that and bought a copy of Kaspersky. I couldn't uninstall AVG properly through "Uninstall a Program", so I deleted it and now its still sitting there. Now, not only that, but Word wont open up now as it says it needs repairing but there isn't an option for that either.

So after all that I tried the holding the 0 but that did F all and I held it for like 40 seconds....

F me if computers are actually meant to work like they should :mad:
 
DBAN the harddrive, it will also help in reallocating bad sectors, and then reinstall your OS

Please research the program thoroughly before using it because it is unforgiving
 
Well I eventually had to reset it to the factory settings after continual errors that couldn't be fixed.... Only problem now is I need a boot disc which i don't have. I have no idea what to do now.... Probably have to go and buy a copy of Win7...
 
If you know someone with the same version (32bit or 64bit) of Win7 as you then they can make a boot disc for you.
 
Do you mean a Windows Install disc, or a disc to boot to a Dos shell?

The System Repair Disc is bootable, you boot to the disc, it will search for Windows installs and then allow you to use the repair tools within that Windows install to repair itself.

It may help to fix any Windows installs that don't start or start with significant problems.

However it isn't the same as a Windows Install disc (as it wont provide a fresh install of Windows), or a specific Recovery disc that comes with your system (ie Dell, HP, Asus, etc - these are specific to the Equipment and may help solve problems with the firmware itself)
 
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