Windows did not start successfully!

[Guest jaroc]

I had properly shut down my slow and old toshiba satellite yesterday

night and when I powered it up the next morning, a screen said including

the words "Windows did not start successfully" showed up. There is a

list for me to choose from Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe

Mode with Command Prompt, Last know good configuration, and Start

Windows Normally, all with a countdown timer. Every option I choose, my

laptop freezes and doesnt go anywhere, even when I dont do anything and

let the timer run down, it still freezes. One time i had let the latop

sit there for 20 mins to see if it would do anything because it is a

slow cpu with a celeron M processor. I can't get anywhere, it always

freezes up and I am afraid i lost and cant get to my storage data. Would

somebody please give me support, this is a scary problem.

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Windows did not start successfully!

 

The key point at this time is to proceed slowly and don't make the

classic mistake of randomly trying things to get it working. The 1st

thing to do is determine what is the exact fault. The list of possible

items include a defective registry hive, disk problems or a recent

update ( Driver or startup app ) that is causing boot failure. If your

data isn't backed up, then your goal is just to retrieve that. If you're

not technically skilled you may want to take the notebook to a shop

and have it backed up. Normally, I'd suggest starting with a Chkdsk

on the drive, but that is risky if the data isn't backed up. Since none

of the Safe Mode options work you're really limited in what you can

do on your own to resolve it.

 

Whatever you do stay away from Geek Squad, FireDog and all the

other "Fast Food" PC Repair operations.

 

 

"jaroc" <jaroc.3ay4pm@no.email.invalid> wrote in message

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> I had properly shut down my slow and old toshiba satellite yesterday

> night and when I powered it up the next morning, a screen said including

> the words "Windows did not start successfully" showed up. There is a

> list for me to choose from Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe

> Mode with Command Prompt, Last know good configuration, and Start

> Windows Normally, all with a countdown timer. Every option I choose, my

> laptop freezes and doesnt go anywhere, even when I dont do anything and

> let the timer run down, it still freezes. One time i had let the latop

> sit there for 20 mins to see if it would do anything because it is a

> slow cpu with a celeron M processor. I can't get anywhere, it always

> freezes up and I am afraid i lost and cant get to my storage data. Would

> somebody please give me support, this is a scary problem.

>

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