Win 7 boot fail

SemperFitz · 5 Mar 2020 at 18:32

Hi All

I have a toshiba satellite c660 that refused to boot with the message 'boot failed', i managed to boot from USB and repair the boot up and got a working laptop again, however, when i restarted i got the same message and no boot up. Any ideas why this would happen?

TIA

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Mar 2020 at 18:40

get logged in and check the event viewer.

something daft already!! · 5 Mar 2020 at 18:41

Did you write the boot sector to the USB drive? Does it boot with that plugged in?

SemperFitz · 5 Mar 2020 at 18:50

something daft already!! said:
Did you write the boot sector to the USB drive? Does it boot with that plugged in?

No, if the usb is in it doesn't boot

something daft already!! · 5 Mar 2020 at 21:58

Check in BIOS that the correct hdd is set to be the boot drive. Is the drive partitioned or does it have more than one drive in it?

bobuk · 7 Mar 2020 at 11:45

Daughter has got one of these which had a similar problem, ended up replacing the hard drive , cured the problem.