My Satellite P205-S7469 is having trouble booting up
It was lagging and being generally unresponsive this morning, and I had to shut it off with the button. I wasn't too worried, but when I tried to start it up, it got stuck on the loading screen with a black background and © Microsoft under the loading bar. I tried again., leaving it for more than 10 minutes, but it still wouldn't advance past that page. Next, I tried that Launch Repair option Windows was giving me, and while it would get passed that one screen, it wouldn't bring up the next page, just stuck on a blank screen. Then I tried Safe Mode both with and without Networking, but it just stopped in the middle of the page where it shows all the files that it's loading. My last resort was Last Good Configuration, but that did the same thing as trying to boot it up normally.
Hope you have a good and recent back up. Sounds like the hard drive has crashed. Could be corrupt software or a bad hard drive. I would continue to play with the computer for awhile and see if I can finally get it to turn on and boot up properly. If it does, take the opportunity to backup all your data again. Run a Defrag and see if you can't fix the drive.
If the fixes don't work, I would run the Recovery disks and see if that fixes the problem. It could just be corrupt software or a virus. If that doesn't work, you are probably going to need to replace the hard drive. You can always try to get your files back from a hard drive recovery place, but it's expensive and may destroy the drive.
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swati_banerjee wrote:
Does anyone know how to replace the DVD Burner in a Toshiba Satellite P205-S769? I am assuming that I need to remove the keyboard in order to get to the drive. Is this similar to other Satellite models where I could simply remove the keyboard securing strip?
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Crowntheme,
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