Disk pops-up and blocks halfway when booting

as sonn as you turn on your unit continuously press F12 before the windows logo shows. this will take you to bios where you can change boot options. Make your cd/dvd/ the first pop in disk save settings and exit unit will reboot then tell you to press a key to boot from disk you only have about 3 seconds before pc boots normally

Looks like your computer can't find an Operating System in your hard disk. May be the hard disk is dead. You should check hard disk connection cables, and if they're working, we'd have to assume that the hard disk should be replaced.

1. Boot it from the disc.
2. Press r for repair at the first screen.
3. A prompt will pop up. Type "fixboot" without quotations

Hope that helps

To reset the BIOS password: You can sometimes remove and then replace the CMOS battery, other times this may not work.
The CD not booting: Did you burn the CD as an ISO (image file cd) or just a regular data CD? My guess is that is was not burned as an ISO which it needs to be to boot.

IF YOU CAN GET INTO WINDOWS ,GO TO MY COMPUTER AND RIGHT CLICK LOCAL DISK OR YOUR HARD DRIVE THATS HAS YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM ON IT,ON THE SUB MENU LEFT CLICK PROPERTIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SUB MENU,THEN CLICK THE TOOLS TAB AT THE TOP AND ON THAT PAGE CLICK CHECK NOW IN THE ERROR CHECKING BOX AT THE VERY TOP,ANOTHER LITTLE BOX WILL POP UP,MAKE SURE TO CHECK BOTH OF THE BOXES IN THAT BOX,CLOSE THE BOX, ANOTHER MESSAGE SHOULD POP UP,HIT YES,RESTART YOUR COMPUTER,AFTER IT RESTARTS IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY CHECK YOUR DISC FOR ERRORS AND SHOULD FIX THEM AUTOMATICALLY-IF YOU CANT GET INTO WINDOWS YOU WILL HAVE TO PUT IN THE OPERATING SYSTEM CD ,RESTART YOUR PC ,WHEN YOU SEE THE TEXT press any key to boot from cd ,PRESS ANY KEY ON YOUR KEYBOARD,ON THE FIRST BLUE SCREEN CLICK GO TO RECOVERY CONSOLE,IT MAY ASK FOR AN ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD,JUST HIT ENTER ON BOTH QUESTIONS AND WIN THE C PROMPT IS DISPLAYED TYPE IN chkdsk /r or chkdsk /f ,make sure and put a space between k and the forward slash,have fun

Insert the disc in the tray. Restart the computer. The computer will not boot in the normal mode but will boot with the repair disc. Now follows he instructions to complete the repair or complete pc restore. It is easy to understand.
If you restart the computer after inserting the disc 1 in the tray and the computer does not boot with the disc. then restart again and keep tapping F9 key and it will ask you to boot from cd/dvd rom so select it and press enter and it will boot with the cd. It might ask you to press any key to boot from cd. You may press any key on the keyboard at the very moment you see the message.

Insert disc 1 into the cdrom drive and restart your computer.
Watch the boot screen for the option to boot to cd or to select boot options.

If onscreen boot options are not available. Enter your bios setup and select the boot tab. Highlight the cd and use arrows keys to move the cd rom to the top position. save and exit.

Follow the onscreen prompts and insert each additional disc when prompted.

Hope this helps

Hi matthewbugbe,

I think what that means is it does not recognize your hard drive. If you are trying to install Windows 98 you should format your drive first.

At this point, you can try to clean your disk # 4 and see what happen,
or try to make a copy of disk # 4 (if you can copy the disk) and try again.

or

1) Contact your customer support and ask for a new set of disks.(or only # 4)

or

2) Boot your computer with another OS disk (win XP)

or

3) Boot your computer with some utility disk

Unfortunately you Windows OS crashed. Try pressing the F8 once you boot up. It should lead you to an option screen where you will be choosing SAFE MODE only. If you can boot up to windows under safemode you can do system restore or uninstall the program you just installed.

If you can't go into safe mode. Use the recovery disc. Pop disc 1 then upon booting the computer, press F12 to load boot menu then choose the dvd/cd drive. Once it finished loading, choose advanced option instead of Toshiba recovery wizard and it will lead you to system restore.

If both of the steps failed, unfortunately, you need to do full system recovery. Just do step 2 and choose Toshiba recovery Wizard, Out of the box state. This will delete all your data.

hope this helps.