Laptop will only boot in safe mode (vista)

Nesima

Any suggestions people ?

My sons laptop will only boot in safe mode, it works fine, I have copied all his personal files on it to a external HD to be safe. It did it perfectly with no issues.

The laptop did take a bang a couple of weeks ago when my son dropped the bag he was carrying it in chipping a corner (screen fine, very lucky). Has worked ok since.

Any suggestions ?

If you try and use it in normal mode it just sticks after signing on with any of the user accounts.

I have taken it back to a restore point (22/12) but that has not cured it, I have also tried the start up repair.

Thanks in advance for any help.
O/S is Vista Home Premium, laptop is Toshiba P300D.

computershack

It is quite possible that there has been damage to the hard drive and congratulations on taking the immediate action of backing up - most people don't.

OK..Click on Start, Computer. Next, right click on the C: Drive and select Properties. Select the "Tools" tab and then error checking. See what happens.

It is quite easy to replace a laptop hard drive and they're only around £40 for a 250GB one. Use the restore discs to put the OS back on the new hard drive.