RE: Help. Toshiba Equium L40 series !!!

i had the same prob my product recovery disc was faulty toshiba refused to
give me a new one said i had to pay for a new one i took it to a local game
shop that repairs disc cost me £3 and it worked must say though its the worst
laptop ive ever had its always playing up mwouod not recomend toshiba
"19adrianmac88" wrote:

>
> Hey everyone, i am having major problems with my laptop. It's a Toshiba
> Equium L40-17M, Vista home premium 32bit.
>
> First of all, when i turn it on it goes into a black screen and white
> writing says: "checking file system on C:" so i let it run, but it keeps
> popping up over and over again, once it did it like 20 times but never
> loaded. So i pressed any button and it stopped and i tried to load up my
> computer but it doesn't load properly, so i fight with it and when it
> loads up (after about 15 blood sweat and tears minutes) nothing
> works...no internet, nothing.
>
> So...i opened up my User's manual and turned off computer, turned back
> on...pressed F12 chose the cd/dvd option..windows is loading files. The
> Recover Utility screen comes up, i press English, and then press next,
> it says English (windows vista) so i press next again and a pop up says
> a warning about all memory being erazed so i press OK and two windows
> come up. 1) X: windows\system32\cmd.exe Says- Try to remove all letters
> from potential partitions on HDD 0 ...
> 2) Administrator: X: windows\system32\cmd.exe Says: Waiting for ODD to
> become availiable
> ODD drive E: ready
> Check for medium in drive E: ...
> Continue ...
> Failed to initialize the RAID class.
> No RAID - Continue normally ...
> X:\windows\system32> (and this bit it expects me to write something in
> here but i have no idea what :?)
>
> SOOOOO....i turn computer off and on again and press F8.
>
> I press on 'repair computer' then it says 'windows is loading'
>
> The System recovery options comes up, i select my keyboard layout as
> United Kingdom (the select language option is English (United States)
> and i cannot change this) i click next.
>
> I then login with my username and password and then a list of things
> pop up in a window.
>
> 1) Startup Repair
> 2) System Restore
> 3) Windows Complete PC Restore
> 4) Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
> 5) Command Prompt
> 6) Restoring The Complete Windows Operating System.
>
> And this is what happens:
>
> 1) Doesn't work, just keeps going on and on for hours (ended up giving
> up after about 10 hours)
>
> 2) It explains what System Restore is all about, i click next and i
> click the restore point and then click next again and i confirm the disk
> i would like to restore then next again and then a pop up says: "The
> disk Vista (C has errors" so i click the 'check the disk for errors'
> and it crashes so i have to turn off the computer again.
>
> 3) Needs a back-up disk (i have my Toshiba Product Recovery disk????
> but still doesn't work)
>
> 4) The Windows Diagnostic Tool runs fine, but doesn't pick up on any
> errors. (when clearly there is!!!!)
>
> 5) Command Prompt ?????? I have no clue what to do with that!!!!
>
> 6) Restoring The Complete Windows Operating System does
> nothing...seriously...
>
> SOOOOO...if any body out there has any suggestions then please feel
> free to reply, because i am so annoyed with this i am about to fling my
> laptop out the window.
>
> I don't care if i loose all my memory but this laptop cost me £500
> (basically $1000) and i don't want it to be broken as i can't afford a
> new one
>
> HOW DO YOU FORMAT THE HARD DRIVES? (C especially...
>
> Much appriciated!
>
> Adrian.
>
>
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> 19adrianmac88
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