Computers & Networking

[cartwheelmurphy]

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop that I have had numerous problems with. 1st off the computer would keep restarting after a few minutes upon logging on to windows vista. Thinking maybe running the system restore disks would be a fix, only made things worse. Before vista could be loaded on to the partition it restarted. This happened a few time. So I gave up. Now the computer is requiring a password...I have no idea what it could be or if my sister entered one. I have a thought that maybe the harddrive is corrupted. Until somebody can give me some pointers, I'm not gonna further make things worse. Please help me.

[hockeycanuckjc Trusted Contributor]

According to your posting, you say your computer is locked out because of a password. Due to legal and security reasons we are not able to help you out with your password problem on these forums. You will need to take in your computer to a repair center or send it in to Toshiba to have it recovered. This is not a free service and is normally not covered under warranty.

[asandwhich]

Might be a virus or malware. You could check the bios for some stuff.