Toshiba laptop black screen with flashing cursor

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mongii

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Hi!

my Toshiba Laptop can't boot in safe mode, can't boot regularly, cant get into windows. after the toshiba logo at the start, it just leads to a black screen with a flashing cursor. someone please help me.

laptop is a toshiba m305-s4910

OS: windows vista home premium

Tried the hardware recovery thing, which is: press and hold 0, then press the power button, then tap 0 when Toshiba logo starts. That does not work.

Tried pressing F8 to enter safe mode, that does not work either.

both of these things that i tried just leads to a black screen with a " _ " line that flashes at the upper left corner of the screen.
and when i press a button it "beeps" annoyingly.

what do i do know?

thanks in advance!

 

JAYR23

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hello bellomycr..

still same problem with the blank screen..
got a toshiba satellite
a305-s6872

i did all the steps but now it says

BOOTMGR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

what do i do? all help is appreciated...

 

bellomycr

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the reason i posted the mirror is bc the exe file that had was bad and i dont know if they have fixed it yet sorry for trying to help people
 

bellomycr

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it is easyer sometimes to be able to walk people though this on instant messanger systems then posting on here sorry didnt know that i broke a rule by posting my on email.
 

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bellomycr

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i am currently rewriteing steps for fixing this issue so it is better explained and things like the bootmgr missing is easy to fix
also i want to give credit to http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ for there free software that is great for fixing this issue.
just bare with me for 2 days and i will put up the new post to take care of all these issues
 

bellomycr

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most people with this problem can not run these programs but i have try fixboot fixmbr and bootrec and they havent worked. none of those programs will march the partition active
 

vetteman1969

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how do I get in touch with you?
 
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