I just bought this notebook Toshiba this summer. It's my baby. I take very good care of it (or so I think). Last night, it was a little sluggish, which is rare, so I restarted it. It tried to run some kind of scan and I canceled it, just because it never does that and I was impatiently working on a homework assignment. This was probably a boneheaded idea. When the computer FINALLY started booting back up, it told me it was unable to load my profile...my entire memory was gone. Everything except my programs. All of my programs are still here, but my documents and photos and settings are gone. It gave me a temporary profile where it says I can't save any changes. So...unable to save anything to this PC anymore? Suck.

Sometimes with my old PCs, there was a physical memory problem, so I ran my Disk Cleanup to see if I did that, then rebooted, we'd be fixed. But as it was scanning for things to delete, it said, "System Error Memory Dump". This didn't sound good. So I canceled it and freaked out in the old FASHIONED way.

Has anyone encountered this problem before? Is there any way I can restore my hard drive? I don't want to pay the Geek Squad to do it.

It's a Toshiba Satellite with VISTA Home Basic, 2GB memory, 200GB hard drive (it says right now that I have 139 GB left...I don't remember what it was before this.)Probably not.

I saw a post earlier that disappeared...it was a CHKDSK scan. And it's never done that before on my Toshiba. I used to do the Disk Cleanup on my other PCs. what program were u use for scanning ?
and this might help:
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic17543.html
and this might help:
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/archive/index.php/t-48960.html
hope I help ya a bit.It was just a black screen that was forcing me into a CHKDSK scan on reboot. It'd never done this before.

Those are similar, but I never got a Blue Screen of Death, and I'm the only user on the computer, so I have no other choices for PROFILES to fool around with mine. Anything I do is reset when I RESTART or put the computer to sleep.b00t to safe mode thats all I know for now.This might help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162031