I have a very old Toshiba laptop, at least 9 years old. It was shipped with Windows 7, but has installed Windows 10 for several years.
It has been the case for a few months now that I can no longer get the part to work.
When I switch it on, the Toshiba logo appears normally and then the Windows loading screen. This remains for at least 5 minutes until the following sentence can be seen under the Windows logo: "Drive. D) is being repaired, 100% completed".
It stays that way for a while and then I get the famous black screen. I solve this with the key combination "Win + Ctrl".
Then the loading screen again.
Then later a blue screen with a sad smiley face, a QR code and the statement that something went wrong at startup and a restart will be made.
Then the whole thing again, but this time at the end a blue screen with various possibilities to solve the problem. Restart, reset PC, change system image, etc. I have tried each of these options, of course, all without success. However, I only tried resetting with preserving the files on the PC, as I still need them. That's exactly why I just want to get him on.
What else can I do to get the part working?
So if all else fails, it's all about the data…
… Remove the HDD / SSD, put it in an external housing, drag data from the SSD / HDD to another device, data is backed up. Then, if you still want, you can rebuild the HDD / SSD and completely reinstall Windows 10. The data are then save.
Not when all else fails, but As soon as possible! Windows does not repair but cuts out defective parts of the file system and the defragmentation in the background (if the system then boots again) overwrites the previously deleted data!
Use a live Linux (eg: https://sourceforge.net/...-toolkit/) and then create an image of the disk with dd_rescue.
You can then restore yours from the image. You can then use DMDE for this - that's good and doesn't cost the world. Alternatively, you can also use r-Studio or UFS-Explorer.
Alternatively, you can hire a professional. That sounds like an easy case that won't cost much either…
