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

Try booting into DOS and replacing your hard drives system files. Not being able to boot suggests that one became corrupt when the power failuer occured. This is simply sys c: If you have scanreg on startup you could also try that to restore to a workable setting...in DOS, that is scanreg /restore If this doesnt work, then it's likely you have a hard disk error which will require you to format it and clean install. Since you were doing word work, it's my guess that you will want to backp files before you do this and the DOS command is copy c:\filename.doc a:\