Cannot load operating system! Please help!

[iusex10]

[B]Hey Guys,

My Netbook PC will not boot! It's a Toshiba NB255-N250. Amazingly, I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit!

Specs:

10.5" approx. LCD
2 GB SODIMM RAM
250 GB HDD
Onboard Graphics
Etc.

When I try to boot from the HDD, it says "cannot load operating system." Previously, it said "winload.exe is missing or corrupt." I set my virtual memory on my second partition to system managed. Then, later, I was working on stuff for a website, I shut my Netbook, and now it won't boot for the HDD/a USB disk with Windows Recovery/installation.

[captaindata]

Sounds like a hard drive is starting to go bad. Try removing it (if it's easy to get to) and re-installing it. Sometimes the connectors come loose. If that's not it then I'm afraid you're screwed. You have a recent backup of your work, right?

[iusex10]

I'm probably going to remove the HDD, format it, install vista, and upgrade to 7. Although, I want an easy and quick solution.

[essellar]

Why do you assume there is one? Windows is not especially good at repairing the physical disk it's on if Windows itself can't load. Or that merely reformatting the drive will definitely work?

Sometimes things actually break. A few bad sectors in the wrong place can cause major problems that are fixable, but a head, local controller or cache failure means a trip to the parts store (and no way, shy of swapping out platters, to recover data from your disk -- external backups shouldn't be optional if you're doing anything important). And there's always the possibility that the mobo's SATA controller has decided to call it a day.

When you do remove the HDD, check it first before formatting. It may not be the problem, and there's no sense wiping everything just on a bet. Even with disk errors, the disk may be recoverable if there's a working OS with disk utilities in charge.

[thapsangnganha95]

problematic too

[letapk]

[B]Hey Guys,

My Netbook PC will not boot! It's a Toshiba NB255-N250. Amazingly, I am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit!
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now it won't boot for the HDD/a USB disk with Windows Recovery/installation.

Just a thought.

Since it is not booting even from a USB disk, perhaps the problem may not be in the HDD, but somewhere else. Did you try checking that the BIOS registers other components, as well verifying the memory, etc?

Sincerely,
K. Patel
http://kpatel.x10hosting.com

[jensenajob22]

have you made a scan for errors?
If none is reported it could be less serious.
A solution fpr pc's is to install puppy-linux. You can find it on the net
Here is the whole packadge, including a good howto
http://help.artaro.eu/index.php/wind...l#.TvhnxFZstLs

If that at-all is an option for notebooks... i have NO idea
good luck HNY

[frankfriend]

Suggest you go on to the toshiba users forums and describe this. There`are often specialist users and forum guys whocmay be able to make non lethal recommendations.