Hello all,
I have a Toshiba Satellite 450 (I think) running Windows XP. It recently showed a blank screen with the words "disk read error Press ctrl + alt + del to restart". When I did this, it restarted to the same page. I could not find a solution to this problem and (seeing how I don't have a lot of important/sensitive information on this laptop) I decided to reboot from the recovery disk and re-format the whole hard drive. I inserted the recovery disk and pressed f12 at startup to ensure that it would boot from the disk.
It now says "Welcome to the Toshiba Recovery Utility. This process will restore the original default system install on your hard drive. Note that the current contents of your hard drive will be deleted etc. Select f1 for OK, or f2 cancel."
I press f1 and the next page has a huge WARNING and text that again warns me that I'm about to erase everything off my hard drive. It says "To continue press (C). To abort press (A)...[C,A]?"
I press C, and it says "please wait" and reboots to the "Welcome to the Toshiba Recovery Utility" page again, and the process starts all over.
I cannot get past this point to begin re-installing the OS on the hard drive. Any help very much appreciated.
Regards,
-Shawn
I have a Toshiba Satellite 450 (I think) running Windows XP. It recently showed a blank screen with the words "disk read error Press ctrl + alt + del to restart". When I did this, it restarted to the same page. I could not find a solution to this problem and (seeing how I don't have a lot of important/sensitive information on this laptop) I decided to reboot from the recovery disk and re-format the whole hard drive. I inserted the recovery disk and pressed f12 at startup to ensure that it would boot from the disk.
It now says "Welcome to the Toshiba Recovery Utility. This process will restore the original default system install on your hard drive. Note that the current contents of your hard drive will be deleted etc. Select f1 for OK, or f2 cancel."
I press f1 and the next page has a huge WARNING and text that again warns me that I'm about to erase everything off my hard drive. It says "To continue press (C). To abort press (A)...[C,A]?"
I press C, and it says "please wait" and reboots to the "Welcome to the Toshiba Recovery Utility" page again, and the process starts all over.
I cannot get past this point to begin re-installing the OS on the hard drive. Any help very much appreciated.
Regards,
-Shawn