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if your operating syste is XP then turn on your pc & when it asks for password press Alt+Ctrl+Del(2 times).another window will appear .type adinistrator as username & hit enter .
It seems that your computer is not seeing your hard drive. This could either be because of bios settings or more likely because the hard drive has failed. If the unit is under warranty, call Toshiba support and describe the issue to them. If not, places like Best Buy can determine for sure the cause of the issue.
It sounds like your hard drive has failed.
Make sure that you have removed all removable media like diskettes, CD, DVD, or flash drives from the machine to confirm. If after removing these items you continue to receive this error, then most likely the hard drive has failed.
Take the notebook in to a service center to have the hard drive replaced and the operating system installed.
Hopefully you have a backup of your data, since it is all most likely lost.
Try this, before it boots up and just after in posts press F8, it should bring up a page where you can choose your boot option, choose "Safe Mode", if the computer does boot to safe mode there are a few steps you can do to remedy this.
First goto my computer, c:drive/windows and scroll down to a folder called prefetch open the folder, highlight everything in that folder by left clicking once on one of the icons and holding control(ctrl) then pressing A once everything is highlighted hold down the shift key and press delete, everything should now be gone, exit out of all the windows do a disk clean up, my computer right click on c:drive (your main drive) and click on disk cleanup tick all boxes and then click ok to start deleting the temp files. once finished reboot mechines and leave it to boot up. if you still are having problems or it wont boot up into safe mode post back. cheers.
#1 make sure there is no floppy diskette in A:
#2 make sure the hdd is seen in bios (Reseat drive connections)
#3 if those steps don't resolve, then run diags on the HDD see if it fails.
If diags pass, boot to recovery console, run CHKDSK /P
on the black screen, hit the ctrl, alt and del keys all at the same time, choose the applications tab, then click on the new task button. in the box type "explorer.exe" without the "
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