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Hello, i am trying to fix my friend's laptop. he has a toshiba satellite a215 s5815. im thinking that vista may be corrupt. it will not boot to windows. the STOP error says that the volume will not mount. i would have repair installed windows but his optical drive is broken. i want to just wipe it clean using the recovery partition but i cannot figure out how to access it. can you offer me any advice? thank you

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Try to substitute other Hard disk drive..if the laptop the problem is the hard disk..check and clean also the Memory..Thank you,,

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