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    Dropped Toshiba Satellite A135-S4467 Won't Boot

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by jennl_7, Jun 21, 2009.

  1. jennl_7

    jennl_7 Newbie

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    I was sitting on the couch surfing the web and my laptop fell off of my lap onto the hardwood floor. There didn't appear to be any physical exterior damage, and I continued with my web activity just fine. Later in the day, I got back on my laptop again and had trouble getting into any of my Excel files. I decided to Restart it, but now it won't boot. I realize this was most likely related to the spill my laptop took earlier in the day. From all I have read it appears I probably damaged my hard drive. When I turn on the computer it has the black screen with Toshiba on it and F2 and F12 options at the bottom. Then it comes up that Windows failed to start and gives me the option to go to System Recovery or Start Normally (this last option does nothing). I have the Recovery Disc from Toshiba that came with the laptop. The problem is I want to make sure I don't delete/erase any of the files that were on my hard drive. I have no backups either (in my defense, I do know to back up my data but every backup I ever tried to do with this machine failed). Please help! TIA

    P.S. I was running Vista Home Premium 32-bit.
     
    jennl_7, Jun 21, 2009
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  2. lixuelai

    lixuelai Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Your hard drive probably died. Download a Linux live disk see if you can boot into it.
     
    lixuelai, Jun 21, 2009
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  3. lonewolf0069

    lonewolf0069 Notebook Consultant

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    If your hard drive is dead you already lost all your stuff so go into your cmos and see if its still recognized.
     
    lonewolf0069, Jun 22, 2009
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  4. tuηay

    tuηay o TuNaY o

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    What lixuelai said; your harddrive is probably dead. You can still try to use an coverterer and connect it as external harddisk. Maybe you can acsess some of your files...
     
    tuηay, Jun 23, 2009
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  5. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    your HDD may not be that bad, put a windows disk in and repair the OS. do not perform a clean install, just choose the option to repair the windows installation.

    the external HDD idea mentioned is the best way to do this. I am just giving another option.
     
    moral hazard, Jun 24, 2009
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