All of a sudden Vista is not booting up past the logo screen (with the green
animated progress bar). Actually, it goes into blank screen mode after 1-2
minutes and nothing happens ever after that.
Worse yet, the Toshiba recovery cd is NOT loading past the same screen (logo)! it first goes
through the 'loading windows files...' then boots to the logo screen and
nothing happens for several minutes!
Originally before all this I simply booted (not installed) from Ubuntu CD to
test it out. I attempted to install and was stuck on step 5/6 where it asks
for partition. I made it 40GB (120GB total drive) and nothing was happening,
I successfully canceled and then all broke loose after that.
What should I do? I'm really stuck, can't boot of Vista CD nor drive. I have
critical data on my hard drive.
Vista RTM Ultimate
Maybe someone has access to the recovery tools on Vista DVD? I don't have a DVD, just the Toshi recovery cds.
animated progress bar). Actually, it goes into blank screen mode after 1-2
minutes and nothing happens ever after that.
Worse yet, the Toshiba recovery cd is NOT loading past the same screen (logo)! it first goes
through the 'loading windows files...' then boots to the logo screen and
nothing happens for several minutes!
Originally before all this I simply booted (not installed) from Ubuntu CD to
test it out. I attempted to install and was stuck on step 5/6 where it asks
for partition. I made it 40GB (120GB total drive) and nothing was happening,
I successfully canceled and then all broke loose after that.
What should I do? I'm really stuck, can't boot of Vista CD nor drive. I have
critical data on my hard drive.
Vista RTM Ultimate
Maybe someone has access to the recovery tools on Vista DVD? I don't have a DVD, just the Toshi recovery cds.
Either way a clean HD should provide a level playing field. And if you have to send off to toshiba for defective hardware they will wipe anyways, which is why step one is very important. Also depending on what the recovery disks do, they may wipe your system anyways, again back up your data first thing.
