Notebook with black screen and flashing cursor

veryintrigued

Managed to borrow a screwdriver that fits and uncoupled and recoupled the hard disk (the smaller cover was the memory).

Unfortunatley this has had no affect.

Plan B?

goldenleaf_2

Reboot netbook.

While booting, hold the 0 (ZERO) key. This will boot into the recovery partition as long as you have not altered it. It should reimage the harddrive, but will take about 2 hours. Just let it run to do what it needs to do.

veryintrigued

goldenleaf wrote: »

Reboot netbook.

While booting, hold the 0 (ZERO) key. This will boot into the recovery partition as long as you have not altered it. It should reimage the harddrive, but will take about 2 hours. Just let it run to do what it needs to do.

Cheers for this. Pressing the 0 button at boot up still allows the Toshiba splash screen to display, when I then release the 0 button I get a similar result to that described above when holding down 'P' and '0' that is:

Cursor still flashes in top left
****** HDD RECOVERY MODE ******* in bottom left
Hard drive light not flashing

Is the PC doing something? Should I expect to see some progress?

Browntoa

veryintrigued wrote: »

Managed to borrow a screwdriver that fits and uncoupled and recoupled the hard disk (the smaller cover was the memory).

Unfortunatley this has had no affect.

Plan B?

suspect hard drive failure, new hard drive +recovery disks unless its under warranty

reapaired a laptop for a friend recently that was doing the same , just hanging after Toshiba splash screen

veryintrigued

Guys just to say this is now resolved. The Toshiba forum (especially a member called Jerry) was a great help - a system recovery disc at £29-90 did the trick:

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/System-Recovery-and-Recovery/bd-p/brd_recovery