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Posted by TR Oltrogge on March 26, 2008, 10:20 pm
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> Hi
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> I have an old Toshiba 3110CT and it suddenly started to refuse to boot.
> The main Toshiba screen displays and then just a flashing cursor and
> nothing. It will boot from floppy and the hard drive can be formatted,
> partitioned etc. from this. I have the recovery CDs and have tried to
> do a recovery from start up - it seems to be doing this, going through
> the process, then gets to a stage which looks like it is rebooting and I
> get the same flashing cursor and blank screen again.
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> The only other really odd thing is that the \ (back slash) key doesn't
> seem to work. The key itself is physically OK and all of the other
> keyboard keys seem to work OK.
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> Anyone any ideas?
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> Thanks for any suggestions.
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> Carolyn, Manchester, UK
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A month ago I was resurrecting a Toshiba 1415-S105 laptop (circa 2003) that
had a crashed hard drive that was removed. While waiting for a new hard
drive to arrive in the mail I decided to boot MEPIS7.0 Linux from a LiveCD
on the machine *without* any hard drive installed. It worked OK and I was
actually able to use the machine for about a week this way. If you can
create a MEPIS7.0 CD (www.mepis.org. it's free but has almost 700MB on it)
and boot from it as a LiveCD then you can test out your machine *without*
the hard drive in the equation. You could also logically "mount" your
existing hard drive under Linux to see if it has a good file system on it.
At the very least you can check the health of your backslash key!
Tim, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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