Can't Boot Up Laptop

[Guest]

Hello, Today I was using my laptop normally when it started to make a funny noise. The funny noise was followed by the computer freezing so I had to hard stop it and try to restart. When I did that I got the standard windows screen that says "Windows was not properly shut down, would you like to start in safe mode...". I choose to start Windows normally (probably a bad move). Anyway, it frooze during boot up so I had to had to hard stop again. Now, when I start up I get the standard Toshiba screen followed by DOS with a blinking cursor. The cursor stays for 15-30 secs before turning into this symbol "╗" and thats it. I have to ctrl+alt+delete and the process repeats. Any ideas whats going wrong and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

 

[frozenlead]

The hard disk was probably writing at the time you rebooted it. You'll need to reinstall windows - your copy is now corrupted.

 

[cheaptofix]

never knew laptops make jokes "funny noise?!"
anyway like frozen said..just hit r when you insert the os cds and relax