Toshiba Laptop Won't Start

Hello,
My Toshisba Satellite l500 02f, running Windows 7 home premium 32 bit laptop has been running very slow of late but recently crashed and would not restart.

From the Toshiba start screen, where choices are f2 and f12 It creates an error that looks like:
This Product is covered by one or more of the following patents:
US5,307,459, US5,434,872, US5,732,094, US6,570,884, US6,115,776 and US6,327,625

Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller Series v1.24
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

I've read through many of the previous posts on this and not found a fix.

I can access the BIOS no problem. The laptops HDD is intermittently viewable under the boot menu. (mostly not present) as a boot device. I had moved it up to just under CD/DVD drive at one point to no avail.

I have a repair disk for this laptop and tried that in the drive but it didn't work. (loads files, but ends in an error with only option being to shut down the machine.)

I've opened the access to the HDD to ensure that it was firmly plugged in and it looks fine.

I thought that there was still life in this laptop but I may be wrong. At the very least I would like to get data off of it. Esp. from the mail program. Any thoughts?

 

Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure that the "repair disk" that I created in 2009 will be of much help. But yr suggestion above is really to get the laptop working again right? Is the data on the hdd accessible if I remove it and try to view as an external drive on another pc/laptop?

 

Just because it won't boot doesn't necessarily mean you can't get your files off of it, though it may. You will first need to extract the drive from the laptop but that does require tools you won't have, so you may need a friendly local repairer for that. You then need a 2 1/2" usb drive caddy. Insert the drive in the caddy and plug it into a working computer. If the drive is still readable it will appear in (My) Computer and you can copy your files off. Drive caddies are very cheap.

Oh, and once you are sorted think about backing up.

 

The HDD is very easily removed from this model. You just open the panel and pop it out...I have a caddy for a ide drive. This is sata. So i should get one of those caddies - guess its worth a try. Thanks for yr help.

 

Lucky you! Not so with Lenovos. The caddy makes a great laptop backup drive btw