help with windows vista recovery boot please?

Question

i have a Toshiba Satellite P205D with Vista Home Premium 32-bit, and it crashed big time.

Here's what's going on:

Every time i try to boot my Toshiba laptop with the vista recovery disc that came with it, it loads the files, then it goes to a blue screen saying "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. It this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the Stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates. Try changing video adapters. Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Start up Options, and the select Safe Mode.

What do I do?

Answer 1

Rocco,



The recovery disk is giving you the Blue Screen of Death. The name is a bit of a misnomer, since the most frequent causes are non-fatal, contrary to the name. But the name has been around since the days of Windows '95 and NT 4.0. Now that the reminiscing part is over with, let's rule out the most common reason for the BSOD - registry issues. Remove the recovery disk from your optical drive. Restart the laptop and press the F8 key repeatedly. After a few moments, you will see the Advanced Boot Menu. From here, use the down arrow on your keyboard to select Safe Mode With Networking and press the enter key. When the Safe Mode desktop boots up, launch the internet browser of your choice and go to www.piriform.com. Download and install CCleaner; this is a free tool. Open the tool when the install is complete, and click Registry, then click the Analyze button. When the analysis is completed, click the Fix button and fix all issues identified. Click the Analyze button again to ensure a clean pass. At your discretion, the Cleaner can and will clean out all of the temporary internet files, cookies, useless temp .dat and index files, prefetch files, etc. You may want to save that for later. For now, reboot the laptop and start Windows normally. If it boots up, you're golden. Word to the wise: do NOT store any personal data, files, images, movies, music files, anything for that matter on your computer (of any flavor). Instead, either burn these to a disk, or save them to a dedicated flash drive or external hard drive. If the laptop still will not start normally, restart it again in safe mode with networking, and make sure you download and install updated drivers for video driver, sound card driver, keyboard driver, mouse driver, touchpad driver. Start Windows normally yet again after downloading and installing any driver. If the driver updates still won't boot Windows up normally, it is time to take the laptop to a repair shop - keep in mind that this is akin to car repair; don't take the first guy's word for it - call as many as you can and go with the one that gives you the best confidence that they will stand behind the work they do.



Best of luck to you.

Answer 2

Follow the steps for safe mode then delete as much stuff as possible (music pictures videos documents programs etc.) then try again with the restore disk. If that doesn't work then get a new HDD to replace your current one and use the restore disk to install vista

Answer 3

The STOP code at the bottom of the text tells you what the problem is. It's of the form 0x000000yy - you need the yy part. Go to http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm for a lost of STOP codes, their causes and cures.