Laptop won't boot

A friend gave me her Toshiba Satellite laptop to fix. It won't boot. Comes up with a very descriptive error too - "Load Error! Press a key to reboot" Fine, all I have to do is press a key and all will be well. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! It simply comes back with the same error message!! Called Toshiba for tech support only to be told the laptop is "OUT OF WARRANTY". "We're sorry, but we will have to swipe your credit card if you want to carry this conversation on any farther" So I got this Recovery and Applications DVD for this laptop, boot with it and it basically runs Ghost and reimages the harddrive. I'm thinking, cool, that means the hard drive isn't shot like I first thought. So I pull out the DVD when it's done, reboot and Voila!! "Load Error! Press a key to reboot" Please Obe Wan, you're my only hope.

Hi Rockitman

Found this on a Google-search. It may also be the solution you need, as the problem is identical and with Toshiba labtops.

LINK

You need to find Post #18. Thats the key post with regarding to fix it.


Regards Abydos

Abydos, YOU ARE DA MAN!! Thank you thank you thank you So, in your opinion, what had happened to this laptop? Fdisk /MBR (master boot record??) Malware?? what?

Hi Rockitman Glad you could use the fix / Info. What and why it happened, I don't know (Not much of a laptop geek ) However, it could be a corrupt boot-file(most likely), some file missing or something. Maybe a bad sector on your HD. You can repair bad sectors by right-clicking on your HD (Most likely system partition), select properties, functions (maybe named otherwise, got danish version), there you should see a radio-button that lets you search the HD for errors. It will prompt you, that it can't right away and if you wanna do this on next reboot. Answer yes, and reboot. The tool will now on reboot check for errors in 5 categories and attempt to repair any errors found. Regards Abydos