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I use a Toshiba Portegeé but when I wanted to restart it because of a Windows update.
While booting up it showed an error something like "Boot disc error to restart press *ctrl* *alt* *del* but when I did that the same procedure started anew...
Please does anyone know what I can do?
If it can*t get fixed how can I restore the data there are many things I don't wanna lose!

Uh oh . . . Unless you've got a CD in the CD-Rom drive which isn't a Windows CD (in which case, if you take it out, the computer should boot normally), you might have a dead hard drive. If I remember correctly, that message is what a computer I once had said when the hard drive died--I know the drive died, because my dad basically fixes computers for a living.

Super, just my luck!

My brother just said to me that the HDDs made by this company is known for something like this... if I'd known that some time earlier...

Thanks for answering DSDragon