Laptop won't boot

**vladd** · August 26th, 2004, 03:46 PM

i have the exact same model laptop, and the exact same frickin problem. Mine is 2 years old and just yesterday it started this, i can't get into windows, it asks me for a hddpassword that i've never set, which leads me to believe it can't read the HD (bad HD) and it's thinking that's because i have it pw protected. i stayed on the phone with support yesterday for about 4 hours (circuit city's warranty plan is a POS) and i accomplished nothing, they said "you need to get a new restore CD from toshiba."

Anyway if you've fixed your problem please let me know how.

Matt

**vladd** · August 26th, 2004, 06:42 PM

I just wanted to add that i found on a windows driver's site, a bios update that included a fix worded something like "asks for HDD password when defective HDD is detected" bad for us i'm thinking

Originally Posted by vladd

i have the exact same model laptop, and the exact same frickin problem. Mine is 2 years old and just yesterday it started this, i can't get into windows, it asks me for a hddpassword that i've never set, which leads me to believe it can't read the HD (bad HD) and it's thinking that's because i have it pw protected. i stayed on the phone with support yesterday for about 4 hours (circuit city's warranty plan is a POS) and i accomplished nothing, they said "you need to get a new restore CD from toshiba."

Anyway if you've fixed your problem please let me know how.

Matt