Load Error

I have a problem. I have had this Toshiba laptop for a couple years and it was running fine but a little slow. I decided to format it and reload everything because it was loaded with junk.

I put the disc in that came with it and did the format and reload. It looked to be fine. I started by loading my virus protection, Nod32 and then loaded all the updates from Microsoft. there was a bunch of them. I am running XP.

The problems started. I would look at my laptop and it was asking for my password. I never set one up! When I would try to open something up, like Explorer on my desktop it would just make me a shortcut. It would not let me delete it but if I clicked on the icon again I would get another bloody icon! My computer had blocked me from doing anything.

I decided that I was not gonna fool with it any more and put the reload disk in again and went through the format again and the reload. Same thing happened again. It would work for a while but then all the same crap would happen again.

I ran the disc again and did another format and reload. I decided I would just run with the antivirus That came with it for the time being. I wanted to make sure I was protected before going on line.

I had to reboot. I got the message (Lad Error-Press a Key to Reboot) I did this. Nothing happened. I did it again, Nothing happened. The message just sat there on my blank black screen. I did a hard shutdown. It came back up with the same message.

I reloaded the dang disc again and did another format and when it told me to take the disc out and hit a key for reboot I did so. The same message came back up. It will not even complete the bootup. I get nothing but the message no matter what I do.

Can anyone help me with this??

 

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