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badmanners
06-May-2009, 01:01
My GF's Toshiba laptop had a funny turn and has been sat at the STARTUP REPAIR screen for a few days now.

Nothing I do can get it past this screen, I have F8'd till my fingers bleed, when choosing anything from the SAFE MODE screen it reverts to STARTUP REPAIR and doing its thing.

Can anyone help with this before said Tosh meets with violence?

Many thanks in advance
webteam
06-May-2009, 01:29
sadly (or maybe not) - I've never used Vista on a laptop...

Is there an option to boot into safe mode still to try and get it to boot?

Good luck - Frank
badmanners
06-May-2009, 01:56
sadly (or maybe not) - I've never used Vista on a laptop...

Is there an option to boot into safe mode still to try and get it to boot?

Good luck - Frank

There is Frank yes, but alas it takes me to the Startup Repair screen again :-(
webteam
06-May-2009, 11:43
Sorry about that....

An option?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080624202630AAyjtkX
badmanners
14-Jun-2009, 00:51
sorted now
Monty
14-Jun-2009, 13:28
sorted now

With a hammer??

John :devil:
badmanners
14-Jun-2009, 14:08
Thankfully no :-)

It seemed to be a problem with Vista (suprise suprise)

I removed the hard drive and connected it via USB to another computer, thus using it as an external HDD.

From there I had to gain access (nightmare) to the user files, copied the files I needed to another HDD. I then couldn't get Vista over the top of the old software so I formatted the HDD, re partitioned and am now awaiting a Toshiba recovery disk before I can start from scratch.

Now my GF backs up her data on the partitioned drive and not the Vista drive :-/
moozaad
14-Jun-2009, 16:14
Now my GF backs up her data on the partitioned drive and not the Vista drive :-/

If you right click 'documents' you can set it's location to the other drive (under location). That'll make it an easier transition.


Also you can use any vista media iirc, not just the laptop CD unless you want all the extras that are installed with it.
You can even switch between 32bit and 64bit vista using the same key.
As with any OEM reinstallation, you'll probably have to phone M$ to activate the installation.