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    Won't boot unless I go to boot menu.

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by latichever, Dec 8, 2010.

  1. latichever

    latichever Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a P200. Alll of a sudden, it stops the boot process and I get an "invalid partition" error message. I went to bios and made sure it's set to boot at the hard drive, but that didn't help. I found that if I open the boot menu on start up, F12, I can select the hard drive and it boots and everything appears normal. Note: I'm using a clone of the original hard drive, but everything was working fine for weeks before this. Somehow the automatic boot process isn't finding the partition (I have only one), but I can set it manually--to that partition--each time I boot.

    I also set it back to a restore point, which didn't help either.

    I notice there is a bios update but could that be irrelevant or compound the problem?
     
    latichever, Dec 8, 2010
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  2. AEDan1977

    AEDan1977 Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds like there is possibly an issue in to regards to which partition is active and marked as the system partition. Also is the boot order in your BIOS correct?
     
    AEDan1977, Dec 9, 2010
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