Toshiba L300D - system recovery/BSOD ? [Solved]

Thank you man, you are my HERO ;)

thanks, it worked. but will it work the same with the battery in?

I can't find the start button! Lol

absolutley awesome, Yay I have my computer back. thankyou sooo much.

my toshiba satellite does not boot to safe mode. pls what can i do?

i didn't workk.. i got a blue screen once i tried booting from normal mode.

Hello,
Try this 1
1) Remove the RAM from the slot, clean it and place it back properly or try another slot.
2) If you have installed any newly driver or software uninstall it from the safe mode.
3) Go to safe mode again --> Open "My Computer" --> Right click on your OS drive-->properties--> Click on "Tools" tab ---> Click on "Check Now" button and select the two options---> click on "Start".
Good Luck

what's a RAM and how do you remove it? or where is it located?
sorry, i'm NOT a techhie at all whatsoever. ):

okayy.. so i managed to remove the memory card and did everything you said
but now i can't evven get onto safe mode? it just shows all the files that are being loaded
but never moves on to the start up screen...

Hello,
Try this 1
Wait for the completion of that process. If the problem still exists then try safe mode with command prompt. Let me know if you got successfully booted into safe mode with command prompt.
Good Luck

safe mode with command prompt isn't working either...
i'm waiting and waiting and its still loading files.

hey stop deleting my comment. I had access to a toshiba satilite L300 recently and I was able to get it to boot into the toshiba recovery wizard thing.

In short. if you have a mbr virus take care of that first.
then hold 0 on powerup until you hear a beep or see windows prompt, pick an option that looks like repair/recovery, try to go through with it or restart your computer with ctrl+alt+delete (after you take a look like I did)
if you start your computer as normal after looking through a repair menu, your computer should boot directly into toshiba recovery wizard.(at least it happened by accident with me)

How I got there:
The toshiba L300 I had on hand had a virus in the mbr but I used a tool from an antivirus site and fixed it. After, I shut it down and on power up I held 0 and let go after the beeps or when I saw what looked like the windows safe mode prompt. Since I didn't press F8 to get there I think I was close. I remember 3 options and one of them was memory diagnostic. I forget which one I picked (most buttom one IIRC(if I remember correctly) but I was trying to look for repair just to check it out. I then restarted the computer to run a rescue disk from an anti virus site to scan When I restarted it booted directly into toshiba recovery wizard with a fancy logo and yes no. I picked no and booted back into windows to run other scans but that option is what you are looking for to reinstall your operating system.

if you really want to know, I was using kaspersky rescue disc to scan (its free download it from kaspersky's site and burn it) and tdsskiller.exe (from kaspersky) which got rid of the win32.tdss.tdl4 variant of tdss (a virus in the mbr can stop the system from booting anything if improperly removed and it would still be there after a restore so i had to back up the mbr and fix this system the right way)

scratch what I said, I have clearer instructions.
HOLDing zero on power up (let go when you hear beeps or you get to...) gets you to "windows boot manager" the very first option is the toshiba recovery wizard, the second one asks you for F8 to get into safe mode menu, the third is memory diagnostic.

if that does not show up, then you probably have a master boot record virus OR that prevents the recovery partition from booting (and modified your drivers so that when windows updated, it probably broke your system, I've also seen people pull the plug when their laptop was installing updates and same behavior you described happened).

You can probably try to run antivirus tools(tdsskiller) in "Bart's Preinstalled Environment" (to run windows tools when you can't boot) and download a good antivirus to find out what happened to to your masterboot record. if you need more help, I'll try to check this thread again. You'd need a friend with a cd burner to help burn bart's pe, and maybe burn a cd for mbrtool to backup your masterboot record incase there is a problem.

For my particular Toshiba, the virus tdss modified the mbr, and made booting into the recovery partition (recovery wizard) impossible because holding zero got me to a black screen with a squished multi colour bar. After I removed it with a freetool, it booted back into the factory restore feature just fine. Good luck and hope you don't have a bad harddrive.