[iidavidii]

have about a 2 year Toshiba laptop and I am having extreme trouble with it. I am about to throw it out my third story window but I thought I should post here to see if any if you guys could help.

It all started about a month ago when my computer was running very slowly and one day. I got a message saying message saying windows have to shut down due to a critical error. So it shut down and when I tried to reboot it said windows could not run because of a missing windows directory and to run the recovery console on the windows XP CD. Well the problem was that I don’t have the window XP CD just the Toshiba recovery CD which formats the drive and automatically installs windows XP.

Well, so I tried using the Toshiba Recovery CD but kept on getting either a bad system partition error, it installed but when I restarted all I got was a blank screen like no operating system was installed, or that same windows directory error. About after the 8th try of using the Toshiba recovery CD I got windows installed successfully. However it ran very very very slow, even at the boot up. I managed to run ad aware and a virus scanner and it found spy ware and viruses on it even though it was a clean install. That’s not my main problem though every time my computer went to sleep (automatically after 1 hr or so) and came back up it would show that same windows error. Saying that windows could not start because the windows/system32/config/system directory is missing. So I ran the recovery CD again, and the same thing happens, once I finally get windows installed it goes to sleep and never gets back up successfully. This has been an endless process.

So I got a couple questions to ask in order to attempt to fix this before I throw the damn thing out the window.

1. Anyone ever heard of this problem and a solution of windows not starting up properly after it automatically goes to sleep.

2. How it is possible for me to still have spy ware and viruses after I format it with the Toshiba recovery CD.

3. My CPU usage fluctuates from about 10% to 100% constantly, I assume this is because of the spy ware and virus's but I ran ad-aware and it said I had 42 processes and 1200 process modules. What exactly are process modules and what are other reasons for my CPU usage to be so high.

4. I am running off a local area university connection connecting with my USB port, is it possible the virus's and spy ware on getting on through there after I run the Toshiba recovery console.

5. Is there any diagnostics software program that can tell me the condition of my hard drive, ram, etc.. can of like a benchmarking program.

That’s about it for now, if you have any idea how to get my laptop back to normal health please respond. Also can you give some tips and any routine maintenance you perform to prevent from something like this happening.

Thanks for your help
David