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Lucario621 · 2010-09-20 15:07:14

My Windows 7 Laptop won't turn on sad .

It was just yesterday, and although some problems weren't responding, it went back to normal and stuff, no biggy. But then I saw "Windows Explorer is not Responding" - and the whole computer was practically frozen - so I just shut off the computer. But since then, whenever I try to turn on my computer, I shows the Toshiba loading screen, but after that it's blank, and absolutely nothing happens - I can't go into Safe mode, but I can go into boot mode. I'll look a little more into this, but I'm still not sure of the problem sad . Can anybody help?

In addition, I think I have a similar problem as this person.

Also would this help?

EDIT 9/22: The current situation is, we're going to have a system recovery disc to completely bring the computer back to it's out-of-the-box state, which means it'll remove all of the files sad . But my dad has a friend who can use is überskillz to get at least the Scratch files and some of my pictures out. All of my programs I can re-install later...

Last edited by Lucario621 (2010-09-22 21:25:10)

iCode-747 · 2010-09-20 16:39:37

Uh... Maybe boot from an SD card or an external drive with windows 7 on it? Looks mainly like an OS problem to me... My dad once had this problem, and he booted from sn SD card that had Windows 7 on it. If you still have the disk, maybe try to reinstall the OS.

The same thing happened to my mac a couple of years back. It was a corrupt OS. Try reinstalling. wink

Sorry if I can't help you more... hmm

antimonyarsenide · 2010-09-20 16:45:10

Don't know sad Sorry.

tinoesroho · 2010-09-20 16:53:51

Try a liveCD. I personally keep an ubuntu disk kicking about, because, of all things, the boot menu allows to boot from first hard disk. I use version 9.10, mind you.

Toshiba + Windows Vista/7 = problem. Well... most of the time. (I was forced to install Linux Mint 9 on my mother's laptop because the OS corrupted, with no install disk.)

Lucario621 · 2010-09-20 18:12:45

iCode-747 wrote:
Uh... Maybe boot from an SD card or an external drive with windows 7 on it? Looks mainly like an OS problem to me... My dad once had this problem, and he booted from sn SD card that had Windows 7 on it. If you still have the disk, maybe try to reinstall the OS.

The same thing happened to my mac a couple of years back. It was a corrupt OS. Try reinstalling.

Sorry if I can't help you more...

Yeah, I WOULD try doing something like that, but the Laptop didn't come with a Windows 7 disk hmm .

Even my dad is a computer expert so he would know what to do; but this is 2010, and he's pretty old, and his book of tricks is getting dusty xD.

iCode-747 · 2010-09-20 18:55:19

Lucario621 wrote:
iCode-747 wrote:
Uh... Maybe boot from an SD card or an external drive with windows 7 on it? Looks mainly like an OS problem to me... My dad once had this problem, and he booted from sn SD card that had Windows 7 on it. If you still have the disk, maybe try to reinstall the OS.

The same thing happened to my mac a couple of years back. It was a corrupt OS. Try reinstalling.

Sorry if I can't help you more...
Yeah, I WOULD try doing something like that, but the Laptop didn't come with a Windows 7 disk .

Even my dad is a computer expert so he would know what to do; but this is 2010, and he's pretty old, and his book of tricks is getting dusty xD.

Yeah... Sorry I can't help you more. sad

12three · 2010-09-20 18:58:58

This happened to my old computer.... it was also windows.
It never came back on. You may have to start looking at new labtops, or use warranty or something.
hmm -12three- hmm

ihaveamac · 2010-09-20 19:06:45

It happened to me, the exact same thing to MY TOSHIBA laptop. I just formatted it anyway and sent it in because of a fried hard drive.

Lucario621 · 2010-09-20 20:12:59

My dad brought the laptop to the Geek Squad (aka Best Buy's technical support with an epic name), so they can hopefully fix it smile

mooseofawesomeness · 2010-09-20 20:53:51

If you want to be able to solve this sort of problem in the future you should probably make a cd of system rescue cd. Then just put that in the computer, reboot, and you have all the necessary tools to solve it yourself.

fg123 · 2010-09-20 21:02:30

Moose: Exactly. big_smile

scmb1 · 2010-09-20 21:08:28

Have you tried turning it off and on again? Are you sure it's plugged in?

Anyone who understood that reference gets a cookie for being awesome. tongue

But anyway... I hope your laptop gets fixed. Good luck!

PS: Neither of those questions was serious, so don't hassle me, por favor. big_smile

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mooseofawesomeness · 2010-09-20 21:08:37

fg123 wrote:
Moose: Exactly.

Thank you.

Lucario621 · 2010-09-22 21:24:55

The current situation is, we're going to have a system recovery disc to completely bring the computer back to it's out-of-the-box state, which means it'll remove all of the files, because something in Windows is corrupted or something similar sad . But my dad has a friend who can use is überskillz to get at least my documents, Scratch files and some of my pictures out. All of my programs I can re-install later...

(btw adding this to first post)

ScratchReallyROCKS · 2010-09-22 21:38:05

What are the symptoms? I might be able to diagnose the problem. (XD I sounded like a doctor)

08jackt · 2010-09-22 22:55:17

strange.

i dropped my laptop last year and the hardrive broke. sad

what-the · 2010-09-23 00:14:29

Like others have said. Boot from a disk (Ubuntu). Open up your folder and copy everything on to a thumb drive. Then reinstall.

mooseofawesomeness · 2010-09-23 00:38:04

I messed up my Ubuntu install today and I used a puppy linux usb to rescue my files. That's basically what you need to do in this situation. I love Puppy Linux.

antimonyarsenide · 2010-09-23 16:58:31

My friend's sister manually turned on my friend's computer while it was automatically restarting, and it broke tongue

terminator68 · 2010-09-23 18:12:37

This happened to me. Here are a couple of rules.

1) Never run important tasks like a virus scan when your laptop is running out of battery.
2) CHARGE IT

Is it fully charged? Leave it for an hour or to to charge.

Scratch

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