TSGL: Toshiba Satellite CD Boot Problem

[Russell W. Coover]

Well, I came to a solution (of sorts). I never did get the computer to boot
from the CD ROM, so I couldn't clone the HD or diagnose the problem in that
way. As suggested by Justin and a couple of others, the CD ROM is not
working. 

After a couple of days of frustration, I removed the hard drive from the
computer and placed it in a USB external drive case, attached it and another
external drive to my computer, and attempted to use Acronis to clone the
Toshiba Laptop drive. Acronis refused to do so, indicating that a Disk Check
was necessary. So, I ran the Disk Check Tool, asking it to repair all
errors.

A couple of hours later I returned to find a Hard Drive that could be
cloned. I did so, and then replaced the drive into the Toshiba. I attempted
to boot into Windows. It was very slow to boot, so slow that I assumed that
the boot would not finish. I stopped the boot and attempted to boot to the
safe mode. Sometime during this boot, the machine determined that a driver
needed to be installed and did so without any intervention from myself. The
machine automatically rebooted and I allowed it to boot to the regular mode,
which it did successfully.

Russ Coover  

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Russell W. Coover
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 4:45 PM
To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'
Subject: TSGL: Toshiba Satellite CD Boot Problem

A friends Toshiba Satellite P25-S5092 is failing to boot, Blue Screening
with a "c0000218 Registry File Failure" error message. It is pretty clear
his registry is messed up. I tried to boot it going to a previously good
configuration, but that didn't work. Safe mode, of course, doesn't work
either.

 

I wanted to back up the hard drive before going any further, and loaded an
Acronis True Image Boot Disk into the CD/DVD drive. The boot bypassed the CD
and attempted to load Windows. I opened Setup and made sure that the CD/DVD
drive was the first boot option and tried again. Windows attempted to open.
It was suggested that perhaps I should hold down the "c" key until the word
"Toshiba" appeared on the screen. I did that, and again it was back to
Windows. 

 

I have also attempted to boot with a Windows XP Pro disk, Windows XP Pro SP2
Slipstream disk, and a Linux Boot Disk. These all fail and the computer
attempts to boot to Windows. 

 

Any suggestions? Thanks .

 

Russ Coover

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