Solved! Weird message on black screen, won't boot and nothing works for factory reset

[izadora]

I have a Toshiba Satellite A105 model S4384. When i turn it on, i see the Toshiba logo then i get a black screen with a message: " THDBA is compressed Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart. When i do, it just brings me back to that message. I am trying to do a factory reset but none of the options work....not the F1-F8-F12 or "0"- "C" nothing....i tried with the battery in and out....i have no recovery disc...i need help!!

 

[Colif]

IT sounds like this: https://neosmart.net/wiki/bootmgr-is-compressed/ as it notes the bootmgr can be named something else due to a bug in windows.

what version of windows are you using?

 

[izadora]

Windows 7.... i don't have a way to make a recovery disc or usb using my smartphone but thank you

 

[Colif]

you probably need to get someone else to create it using the the win 7 media creator - https://neosmart.net/wiki/toshiba-recovery-disk/