Toshiba Laptop Won't Boot To Vista
Aug 3, 2012
It's my son's (college student) laptop. Below are the details:
Laptop details:
-Toshiba Satellite, model A305-S6916
-Intel Core 2 Duo
-Vista Home Premium
-320GB HD
-4GB RAM
Issue:
-Doesn't boot to Windows. It goes past the initial Toshiba screen, to a blank screen.
Steps taken so far: (the laptop did not come w/Vista CD)
-Followed Toshiba's instructions from the website (hold down 0 (zero) while booting up, keep holding until the screen goes past Toshiba's initial screen, into system recovery. Found few options there, again followed Toshiba's instructions & chose to have a clean install (losing all the data).
-Message popped up: BOOTMGR is missing. Looked it up on Google, went into BIOS, and made sure that hard disk is the primary boot sequence. Still no luck. My son has loads of important class lectures and notes in it
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Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
ForAtheros PCIE Ethernet Controller v2.0.1.9(12/15/09)
Check cable connection
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE Rom.
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c:windowsminidump112812-25911.01.dmp
c:usersjayappData empwer-582810-0.xml
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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
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MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.7601.17514)
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[code]....
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ive attached a screen shot of how things are layed out.
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