If you can't get the C:\> prompt-- you can't type SCANREG nor type SCANREG /RESTORE.
Not getting a C:\> prompt means no C: drive.

Sounds like the Hard drive is gone or going. The first clue is the message "no hard disk" which SHOULD BE SEEN in the BIOS SETUP.

If you can get to the BIOS setup see if the Hard Disk is recognized.

If it's recognized in BIOS, use a boot disk to FDISK and FORMAT and install an OS(operating system) unless your interested in what is on the hard drive. But apparently you can't get the OS to come up.

Be aware that bumps and clunks indicates Hard drive problems while Squeals indicate fans with dried out bearings.

Perhaps this is why the Pc was no longer used. Also Hard drives can freeze up when setting for periods of time. (The head can freeze to the disk because of trash)

Mike Michel



On Wed 01/29, Larry Fisk  wrote:
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Toshiba Satellite Laptop

Diane;
type: "scanreg /restore" (no quotes)
space between scanreg and /restore
then you should get a list of registry backups
to chose from. Just might work.
<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Duncan" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:39 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Toshiba Satellite Laptop


> Hello,
>
> I just fired up an old Toshiba Satellite 1605/cds4.3
> that I "inherited" from my son.  It's dusty and tired,
> clunks and whirrs.  I have no papers.
>  F2 to the BIOS, and it said there's no hard disk.  I
> turned it off.
>  I turned it on again.  After about 10 minutes, the
> Windows 98 splash screen
> comes on and there's a louder whirring sound.
>  10 minutes later, I get a black screen with white lettering
> telling me "Warning:Windows has detected a registry/configuration
> error.  Choose, Command prompt only, and run SCANREG."
> But the machine doesn't respond to anything I input.

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