Hi,
I didn't know if I should have started a new thread or not but last night I unplugged my laptop and hid it since we have been hearing of alot of break ins and our neighbor seemed to have a break in but I hid it and when I went to start it it wouldn't boot. The little light went on and there was a white cursor at the top left corner but it just stayed a black screen. I did a hard shutdown since i couldn't do anything else and got a screen asking how i wanted to start because there could have been an error.. so at first i tried to "startup normally" then i nothing happend and i had to do the hard shutdown again and got the same screen so i chose to do the "start at last known good configuration" that didn't help either.. so i did a safe mode and went in.. i had no clue what i was looking for so i just restarted and it worked. Did I do something wrong or is this a normal thing for windows to do after plugging in again? Thanks for any help

I think i might have figured it out... my external harddrive has 4 lights on it right where the cord goes and normally it only has 2 lights on and when i plugged it all in it had 4 lights on. I don't really know what they are for but I unplugged the adapter to it and plugged it back in and then only 2 lights showed so then my puter started up normally. Wow, what a few lights will do to a system. It scared the heck out of me. sorry for the post.

Hey Kizzmit5

Sometimes "stuff happens"

Plugging & unplugging, occassional boot baubles...

On rare occassions "things" just get a little scrambled & need to work themselves out. Last week my PCI controller card decided my dvd was my hard drive & it took a few hard shut downs & reboots in various modes to straighten it out. If your machine doesnt do so automatically you can manually run CHKDSK by typing chkdsk/f into the command prompt then choose Y to fix on next boot then reboot. This takes care of many minor problems.

Anyway you seem to have a good grasp on "first-aid" now.