??? So I scheduled a scan during the next re-boot and I left the laptop running. When I came back the laptop had ran out of batter and it was dead. I plugged it into wall and to laptop and turned it on. Well the only thing that was one black screen was a blinking cursor. After 15 minutes of seeing the same screen I forced a shutdown and I cant get it start back up… :-[ …I’m sad… Please Help My Laptop …
Toshiba Special Edition
Windows Vista
U have a bad HDD sector :o…so u have to reinstall windows…get win 7
i thought a bad hd sector = dead hd no?
I could be wrong, but either way good luck op.
Well… Not really. There are software that recover this. HDD Regenerator is one of them.
Format is not enough. Deleting and recreating partitions while also formating, a lot of times, recover the problem.
Guys, he had a run-down battery, doesn’t mean there are any bad sectors. 
Still, it wouldn’t hurt to check it.
what is recommended for me to do?
:-\ but my laptop wont turn on well it turns on it powers up boot my screen stays black. how can i restore it to the last good config if i cant see my screen. are there some keys i can press to automatically jump to that step?
Read the link…!!
You have to press F8 while booting.
see laptop was working fine, it would take a minute to boot up but all was working fine. eventhough it had a virus. that is why i ran the avast scan at boot up. but during the scan is when the computer shut off and it has stopped working completely… 
eventhough it had a virus.how do you know...did avast detect it ? if so what name did the virus have ? did avast tell you to do the boot scan ?
nothing happens…
Hit F8 repeatedly while your system boots.
F8 may not work on notebooks, some use F2, some use F12 others use a different F key. So you will need to check on the Toshiba web site. Though a Yahoo search shows that Toshiba laptops use F8, so there is more to this problem.
A simple possibility could be to turn off completely (no “power saver” status or alike) the laptop and let it charge the battery to its full state.
The BIOS could have some problem (misconfigured) when the battery got empty (this is rare, but yet possible). In such case, after the battery is completely charged, try powering up again. If Windows boots up, great. If not, then you would need to get into the BIOS and reconfigure it again before even thinking of a Windows problem.
All specific BIOS keys, procedures, Windows Recovey or Factory Default, you should check your manual.