I left my laptop on last night and now it won’t boot. I start the computer and get a message saying Windows failed to start. I get the option to launch startup repair or start windows normally. Neither one does anything. Launch start up repair just gives me a black screen. Start Windows normally just gives me the Microsoft Corporation and the bar above it which moves but won’t go any further. This is a 3 year old Toshiba Windows Vista laptop with heavy use.
When that black screen comes up on the repair phase, it might take a very long time to compile the repair by going through every file. Be patient, go somewhere and come back. Maybe you already did this.
Try holding the f8 key all the time to see if you can get to safe mode.
Always good to have an extra computer to help repair in these cases. Apparently you do.