1 Topic by sgoat

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Topic: Computer won't boot

I am having trouble booting up my laptop.

I was trying to run gparted from a bootable cd, as part of rooting my android phone. I have downloaded the iso, burnt it as an image with Magic ISO and checked the MD5. I changed the boot order in the BIOS set up to select CD before HDD. I then put the cd in and restarted.

Now my computer seems to be stuck at the first screen, saying Toshiba. It gives me options to "Press F2 the enter set up or F12 to enter multiboot options". However neither of these buttons do anything except to say "Entering setup please wait" or "Entering multiboot please wait". The computer just sits there thinking.

If I press Esc then I can get an unbranded screen with the name of the BIOS and the same options at the bottom, but this also does not go any further.

I have tried to restart without the disk in, and also with another bootable disk in that did work (an earlier step in the process) but to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Simon

2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: Computer won't boot

If you have a known working bootable CD, then I would suggest trying this one again.

If it won't boot now, then there might be an incorrect setting in the BIOS, or there might be some hardware problem.

If you have access to another computer, you might try booting the GParted Live CD in that computer to ensure that the CD is okay.

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Re: Computer won't boot

gedakc,

Thanks for your response. I have tried the workable bootable CD, and made another copy of the gparted CD and tried that in another laptop. Both worked fine, however neither will work in my laptop.

If it is a problem with the BIOS or hardware does anyone have any suggestions?

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Re: Computer won't boot

Could you please look at this page, the table to the page bottom?
There are some suggestions about Toshiba netbooks.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

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Re: Computer won't boot

If the BIOS is correctly configured and you still experience problems booting GParted Live, you might try these tips on booting GParted Live.