I wonder if anyone can offer any help? I was typing away quite happily in word when the blue screen of death flickered up for 1 second then the laptop turned itself off without shutting down. On turning it on, the 'toshiba' screen loads, where i can access the BIOS, or boot from CD. If dont press a key, a flashing white cursor appears in the top left a second later, and every time i turn it on again (no starting windows 98 script etc). If i use the toshiba boot cd it loads its autoexec.bat and gives a menu of reformating or exiting to DOS. If i exit from its 'format the hard drive and start again' option, i am left at the d:\ command prompt, which i can change to c:\ - the filenames/directories of which look ok. Has anyone any ideas about what may be causing the problem (the hard drive methinks- is it buggered?) and how to resolve it. I am way out of my depth and could do with a hand, Thanks

hello i,m going to post you a link for m.e wont start.allmost every thing i wrote in it will work with 98 but dont do the fdisk /mbr if duel booting you will lose deul boot option. http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/30687.html have a nice day

hi all u can boot on ur floppy and reinstall without formatting by taping install in ur d:/directory . U'll not loose ur files and it'll repair windows

Here's the problem: HELP! I have a 4 y/o Toshiba laptop (360 Satellite???) and somehow, via en email I presume, managed to download a nasty VIRUS! When I go to turn it on, the Toshiba logo shows in red, then (as before) I am asked for my password. When I enter it correctly the computer emits about 15 wah-wah sounds (like an alarm; high-low) then it displays something like Virtual drive C 64 bits Ramdrive... (and some other stuff) Somehow the computer now had a drive "Q" and does not recognize C or A. In addition one time I was able to get to a C prompt (no longer) and found the contents as DESTROY_BAT and some other obvious nasties desigend to ruin my computer. I tried an "erase *.*" and no go. I tried delete and again, nothing. When I try to use the "restore" CD it finally gets to SETTING CMOS" and then goes dormant. Is anyone familiar with this particular virus? I think this happened 4 or more months ago and no my laptop is useless. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Please remember I am a novice in terms of technical know-how! Many thanks!