Boot it up in safe mode is a good place to start

tried safe mode not much happened

i have the recovery CD but i was relucant to format it  as i havnt bcked up the business documents for a couple of weeks! silly git

its having a diagnosis done on it now to determine the problem only costing £25, didnt think that was too terrible.  Hope its nothing serious, although the technician did say that my model of laptop has a big problem with over heating when used on your LAP!!!!!!

and if that does not work then you could try this with it...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YocnQ0NMTUA&feature=related

Had the same problem with mine. (Yours wasn't a Toshiba was it?)

You got off lightly. Would have cost £150 for my local computer shop to try a replacement hard drive and there was no guarantee that would have worked - and that was just the cost of the hard drive - because if the hard drive won't boot the OS can't work on anything you put in to diagnose the problem(s). Catch 22.

I have total faith in my shop, they're sound people, they didn't charge me for the hour or so they'd tried recovering things.

Upshot? As I could buy a second hand refurbished laptop for £157 with six months warranty, preloaded with XP Professional, from Steve's place, I left my machine with them to do with as they liked and sell on and bought myself an Asus Eee PC notebook from Staples for £147 new, which allows me to take it with me EVERYWHERE (it fits into my work jacket pocket or the glove compartment of the Transit). I save everything of note onto a 2 gig memory stick, including downloaded pdf files off my local authority planning web site (full docs of planning apps) which enables me to discuss jobs with the customer anywhere. Fate, such as it is, actually did me a favour this time.

Memory sticks can fail, especially cheap ones.  They also get lost.  I hope you keep a compy of the data on the memory stick an your PC at home too.

I would be more inclined to correctly network and setup shared files between your PC and your laptop, and then you could transfer files directly from your PC to your laptop.  You could even look at synconisation software which ensures that your "My Documents" folder (and other folders you wish) remain the same when you return your laptop "to base".

to answer your question yes it is a toshiba satellite, strangely enough

i thought toshiba was meant to be a hardy laptop

mine did seem to go out of date very quickly, although i feel this is always true

to be fair this is the second time mine has had to be formatted and the first time was completely my fault and its approaching three years old i think, ive spoken to other people whos laptop has gone up the creek after a year and a half and PC world wouldnt touch it even with their service contract thing

it did survive a fall that was bad enough to smash out the clip that keeps the hard drive in place, and dislodge the hard drive.

so that said i cant moan too much about it i just wish it wudnt happen at a time when cash flow is so crap because of customers not paying and im trying to save to go on holiday!

Lec, I have the Hp Pavilion as well and lost the screen, anyway to cut a long story short, I got a Dell 21" monitor from Pcworld plug it in and away we go  

Also years ago I got an Integral (brand name) external hard drive case, and stuck a 500G hard drive innit, took everything off the computer on to the remote, so all that's left is the operating system, the speed increased at least double.

What I do now is open the program in the remote and work from that.

Another trick which seems to works well is I laid 12" floor tiles on the desk and it acts as a heat sink, it runs much cooler now.

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What has that got to do with the price of eggs?

scotspark wrote on Apr 10^th, 2009, 5:03pm:

That would be my guess  

a bit off subject now, but i thought i would give u a up date.

the laptop corrupted again after a couple of months. decided i could not put up with it anymore, went for the most bullet proof one as possible and everyone suggested apple mac book.  expensive to buy, but all the software cost £55 from agros and i was off and running again.  still getting used to it at the moment but on first impression it is very slick.

Joiner wrote on Apr 13^th, 2009, 10:28am:


It wants to be impressive for £60 a month!

Message for Joiner, I sent you a PM about your EEE PC.
Does it get warm/hot when in use? Is yours the one with the solid state drive or a standard hard drive? Which model?
I am getting a EEE PC 901 in a few days to replace my old nut-roasting laptop, hoping the new one will not be as effecting at family planning  

Point taken, it just seemed extremely expensive, but if you are that much of an infrequent user then I understand.

I had a similar smug git just the other day.

I went to quote to move some phone points around, as the home office was being done away with due to retirement, and the additional business lines where being dropped and wanted to be made live from the home line.

While there, the customer mentioned that the ADSL was not reliable and the line was very noisey.

I took a quick look and noticed that no microfilters where in use at all - even the routers lead had been changed for one with a BT style plug in it which I guess was robbed from an old phone.

I said I would sort that there and then, and fitted a couple filters.  I said to wait a few minutes for the ADSL to sync, and then try the internet.

The twit said "I dont need to wait, I have a MAC and the internet is instant, not like sluggish PC's".

I tried to explain that it was the router that needed time to sync to the line, and it didn't matter which type of computer was being used.

He wouldn't have it, and told me to "watch".  I did, and he went very red faced when nothing would work for him.

I have used macs before, and can say they are very good for graphics and do appear stable.

However, as 99% of people use PC's, with an even higher percentage of businesses, I find it is best to consentrate on them.  I do a large amount of data cabling and networking, and in all the time I have done this it has always been for PC's.  The only time I see macs is when graphics are of importance (for speed and not a lot else).  This is mainly is newspaper and magazine offices etc.

For a bit of web surfing, any old machine will do!

Lectrician wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2009, 5:34pm:


Don't agree with you 100% there as the number of businesses switching to Macs is increasing as they have realised the Total Cost of Ownership of running virus-ridden PCs of indeterminate build quality and reliability. They'd rather focus their staff on running the business rather than worrying whether the reason their PC is running slow is because they've caught a virus!

I agree.  Not all but some are  

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Some folk will do anything to turn a penny.

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Email frauds will catch the gullible irrespective of whatever computer they are using.

I know many many people who simply use and like using their Macs because they just want to get on and do something. True..some people might use Fusion but then the OS is essentially retarded back to Microsoft along with all the crud, viruses etc that goes along with PCs.