"I have a Toshiba satellite laptop, a couple of days ago my enter button on my keyboard wasn't working so I went to star option and restarted my computer. after doing so when I tried to turn the computer back on. I got an error message saying some files must have been corrupted or damaged. it gave me two different options start Windows normally or repair my computer. when you do either in either freezes on the start window where it brings you to your login. or the other option and all it does is showing a black screen with a white arrow. I've already hit F8 and went into boot mode, tried to go to safemode but it loads files and says please wait but stops.. then since that did not work I went to safe mode with networking that also didn't work. It's like it can't get that far. I've taken out the battery press the power button for 22 sec, I've done a couple of different tricks that I read on the Internet but nothing is working if someone knows what is going on with my computer please help. Thank you for your time!"
Any luckkk
Sounds like your laptop is fucked.
Maybe it over heated?
If there is an error says "some files must have been corrupted or damaged", will work fine after a clean re-installation of OS. But before doing that, on the "repair" mode, try to run memory diagnostic, or with LIVE UBUNTU CD, try to test your hard drive for any errors. If you couldn't find any error with hardware, than as i said before, just reinstall OS.
If you need assistance PM me.
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Please tell me how to get to repair mode. I've tried getting to safe mode,all it said is load windows files,freezes,restarts. Like a cycle.
Your hard drive (MIGHT'VE) failed.
Get ALL files off of the HDD if that is the case. Get anyone to help you unconstruct the laptop and get the HDD out. If you don't know already, laptop HDDs look like this:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/cQcez.jpg[/IMG]
First we need to be sure about health of your hard drive.
1.Download Ubuntu:
[url]http://www.ubuntu.com/start-download?distro=desktop&bits=32&release=lts[/url]
2.Burn It to the DVD.
3.Shutdown computer, put ubuntu dvd to the disk tray and power up your computer.
4.On the boot, select multi boot menu (On my computer F12 key), and select to boot from DVD
5.After 3-4 minutes ubuntu will show up.
6.Click on "Try Ubuntu"
[IMG]http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/1863/img3643e.jpg[/IMG]
7.Than Ubuntu will launch. Just follow pictures now.
[IMG]http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6407/img3644z.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8273/img3645ej.jpg[/IMG]
Now Select your Hard drive. It shouldn't be something like ***mb, it should be more than 5GB
If there is 2 or more of hard drives, write down their names, sizes and health status.
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[IMG]http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/552/img3647z.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2337/img3648z.jpg[/IMG]
If health status is OK, than you wont need to change your Hard drive as AlexGT said, you will just need to reinstall Windows OS.
But if not, there is a problem with your hard drive, than you need to buy new one, and change it, than reinstall OS.
That is the best solutions that i can give you with my own experience.
I cant follow this thread, if you need my help, please feel free to PM me.
I will love to help.
[QUOTE=AlexGT;36421369]Your hard drive has failed.
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Uh, no
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME means exactly what it says, that the filesystem on the boot partition is corrupted.
It is possible the harddrive failed, but very unlikely. When HDDs fail, most of the time the PC will refuse to get past POST, let alone display a [I]Windows[/I] error message (which means the HDD is still working and being accessed).
Personally, I would do a chkdsk /r, and if that doesn't work, back up the data using a livecd and reformat/reinstall the OS
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;36422415]Uh, no
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME means exactly what it says, that the filesystem on the boot partition is corrupted.
It is possible the harddrive failed, but very unlikely. When HDDs fail, most of the time the PC will refuse to get past POST, let alone display a [I]Windows[/I] error message (which means the HDD is still working and being accessed).
Personally, I would do a chkdsk /r, and if that doesn't work, back up the data using a livecd and reformat/reinstall the OS[/QUOTE]
Oh? On my laptop, my HDD took a shit, and Windows gave me a loading bar that said it was loading files, then gave me a black screen. It still POSTed.
Sorry, just thought that it could've been the cause.
[QUOTE=AlexGT;36422473]Oh? On my laptop, my HDD took a shit, and Windows gave me a loading bar that said it was loading files, then gave me a black screen. It still POSTed.
Sorry, just thought that it could've been the cause.[/QUOTE]
That's why I said "most of the time", there can always be exceptions :v:
All I'm saying is that UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME doesn't necessarily mean the harddrive is faulty, only that the filesystem definitely is.
Like Thunderbolt said, since it shows a blue screen it has to get booted in Windows. If the hard drive is busted you would get the a message like this.
[img]http://www.rawcomputing.co.uk/images/virtualpc3.png[/img]
You probably have to re-format the whole PC to a new OS (like Cyber Cowboy said)
Since it's a laptop, you can probably send it in to Toshiba again and they can take a look, and maybe even send a new one.
(Note) The best solution of course is the get the HDD out and check if it's get contact to another pc as a second boot device. (Roam around on it in Windows or something)
Good Luck
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