My laptop locks up and won't boot. What do I do?

Question

I have Toshiba laptop windows 7 professional. All of my wires in the front and back I/O panels are plugged in. I ran Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and did both quick and full scan. No virus found. When I hit the power button the laptop starts up but it takes at least ½ to an hour to load everything. I also defragmantated the computer.
I restored the system to a previous date, nothing changed. Windows just won’t start or if does it is so painful.

I will eventually take it to the store to get it fixed.

Answer 1

Various softwares which are very eager to write themselves on start-up and/or IE add-ons may be the cause. Harddisk failure is likely as well though generally slow boot times are seen in very aged mechanical hard disks.



Recovery partition is generally around 5-6 gigs of partition kept in laptops to fix them or reinstall windows. While windows is booting it'd ask you to hit some key (may be F8 or F5 or Delete or some other key, it should display it on the screen, if it does not then just hold the F8 key till it shows something different than the normal startup process) to repair or reinstall windows. Hit that key and wait for it to prepare the repair/reinstall screen. Simply follow the steps and when it asks, choose to repair the windows installation. If that wont work....



I'd secondly do this:

After the normal boot hit Control-ALT-Delete at once. From there select Windows Task Manager select "processes" and see if theres an application that uses a great percentage of the microprocessor power (when computer stands doing nothing only System Idle Process should be using 90 or more percent of the processing power) If there is some other process that uses the processing power CONTINUOUSLY, then this whatever program may be the cause. You've gotta uninstall it from the system alltogether. Just find the program from Programs in Control Panel and uninstall it (note that any weird naming dot exe is not the name of the program but an application working for the program. So u need to know what program is using that .exe)



To chenck if harddisk is failing, there's this feature in newer hard disks called SMART. Get into your BIOS (see from here how u can get into the BIOS for Toshiba computers http://michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm) and enable S.M.A.R.T. checking to see if your hard disk is dying or not. Note that your BIOS and/or harddisk in ur laptop might not have the feature. Tho if it has it'll probably show that it's time to change ur harddisk during the startup screen. Keep in mind that SMART checking every time slows down the boot time a few seconds.



I know these above explanations are a bit on the techie side. For problem free computing God designed Steve Jobs so that he could design Ipads. If you are kind of unfamiliar with computer installations and repairs, I'd suggest not spending 1 seconds on fixing it and take it to your retailer :D I'd help u if u were around actually and I'm normally notorious with not helping anyone with the o/s problems they have. I'm too laid back and too ungood for this I guess

Answer 2

virus or maybe a bad hard drive had 2 toshiba laptops and both the hard drives died within a year making my system crash and sometimes not boot them boot

Answer 3

You might have a recovery parition on your laptop then recover it