I am using a Toshiba laptop and it crashed and gave a blue screen and after about 3 days have been slowly making progress recovering files using LIVECD's creating recovery discs and have finally got it to boot into windows, but in all safe modes and normal mode the computer is very unresponsive taking a very long time to log in and once loaded about 5mins just to load the start menu! so it is unusable, when i run SLAX (an operating system that boots of USB) it runs smoothly and i cannot restore the computer as i have no restore points and none of the options work, i created a recovery CD and the only option i have is to re-install windows but i need a Licence Key to do so, but i have lost it (has rubbed off the bottom of the laptop) so all i plan to do is use magicaljellybean key finder to find the key from the registry and re-install windows but cant as it is so slow, what is causing this!
when windows is loading i will hear loading sounds from the HDD, but a repeated loading sound over and over again.
i really need help now, thankyou for your time.