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[trout]

My last years model laptop decided that it wasn't going to play and all I could get was a blank screen and nothing else.:dash1::cray:
I almost just junked the laptop But then I remembered about creating a Boot disk :yahoo:
It took a while (all bloody night) but I have got the machine back up and running again.
I have NO idea why it decided  to "Spit the Dummy" and it is a nice Toshiba Satellite AMD unit that hasn't given me any grief before.
I managed to re install win 10 and saved ALL my folders with thousands of my coin images in them thank goodness.  
Now all I have to do is reinstall office and a few other programmes and I should be Good to Go again.
Thankfully I have this spare Acer core i7 unit I bought earlier this year for work So I was able to create the Boot disk to recover the other laptop.
Jeeze I really Miss not getting the operating system on disk like in the past

[Triggersmob]

Well saved.
I had a similar problem with my Acer showing nothing but a black screen.
I Googled the problem, connected a remote screen to the laptop, adjusted
a few settings and the screen came back. I wonder how many people just
chuck away good machines.

[Fulvio]

I wonder how many people just chuck away good machines.

They're not 'good' machines even when they're going. They're CHEAP machines, which is why people buy them.

So I would say none.

Save the environment. Buy a Mac.

[trout]

I tried hooking up an external monitor but that didn't work
So I just changed the boot order so that the boot disk would kick in and went from there :yahoo:

[JeffH]

I recently had Windows 10 fail on my spare computer. Only way I could boot it up was with a bootable USB stick. When I booted it with Ubuntu I was able to access everything, recover all my data and eliminate Windows system files.
I took notice of the options I had when booting with Ubuntu; there was try Ubuntu or install Ubuntu. If you have to boot with a different operating system to try and repair a faulty operating system then the logical conclusion is to forget the first and go with the second.

[Fulvio]

forget the first and go with the second.

Exactly. I don't know anyone who switched to *nix and ever went back to Windoze.