Re: Toshiba 4000CDS laptop won't boot.

Just when you think it is the hard drive, you might thing memory failure.
If you have two sticks of memory in your laptop, remove one; reboot, and see
how it works. Then try it with the other stick of memory; reboot.

Had a recent Toshiba that worked the same way; thought for sure it was the
bios or the hard drive. Found out that one of the sticks, despite passing
"tests" seemed to cause a hang. When the bad stick was removed, the machine
worked just fine. Just a thought. dr
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"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sounds like a bad hard drive. You need to see if you can boot from a
floppy and/or from a CD. If you can do that, it's almost certainly a
bad hard drive. Make a bootable floppy and/or CD on another machine
(doesn't have to be a "Toshiba" specific floppy). [to boot from a CD,
you may need to change the boot sequence in the BIOS] If the hard drive
is bad, get a new hard drive and reinstall Windows. You can use a
generic version of any version of Windows from 95 to XP (however, don't
use XP unless you have at least 96 megabytes of memory, and preferably
160 megabytes). It's also possible that the OS on the hard drive got
wiped out but that the hard drive is still physically ok (e.g. you could
reformat and/or repartition the hard drive and it would be ok for a
reinstallation of Windows).

If you are going to reinstall the OS, reflash the bios to the latest
version first.

All necessary Toshiba drivers, as well as the bios, are on the Toshiba
web site.


If the hard drive is bad

Uyurth Phleu McFadden wrote:

Hi,
I have a Toshiba 4000CDS laptop that won't boot.

1. I switch the Power on .. OK
2. Boot screen "Toshiba In touch with tomorow" ... OK
3. "Enter password .. "
I enter the password.
"Valid password entered system is now starting up."

But nothing happens from then on.
(Can't even get in touch with Today let alone tomorrow !)

I don't have any Toshiba floppies.
Nor CD.

What can I do now ?

TIA

Mc Fadden




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