Hello,
Recently, I was helping someone get a performance increase from their Toshiba 1ghz laptop. What was done was I installed a free utility called Tune XP. I implemented a few of Tune XP’s options such as the option to defrag boot files.
Once the performance tweaks were completed, I restarted the computer about 5 times to see if there were any problems with the tweaks. No problems. Following that I proceeded to defragment the hard drive. The laptop’s hard drive does not have multiple partitions. When defragmentation was complete, I restarted the computer. The computer restarted up to the Windows XP splash screen, then a blank screen followed.
I restarted the computer and accessed the boot menu to select the last known configuration when Windows worked. I got the same results with the blank screen. I rebooted, went into Safe Mode and ran the Check Disk utility without the two options selected. No problems were found. I rebooted the computer and tried to start normally, but I got the same blank screen after the splash screen.
In the meantime, I am running check disk with the checked options of:
*Automatically fix file system errors
*Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
We’ll see what kind of results I can get with this.
For now, I do not think it could be a video driver issue since I have not updated any drivers or altered it’s display settings. Could there be a possible issue with Window’s boot process after this defrag was completed? Before I resort to a fixboot or fixmbr in the Recovery Console, does anyone have any ideas? Suggestions are welcomed. Thanks.