My friend has a toshiba satellite e305-s1995 laptop. It has started having issues.

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It will boot to the white underscore, and then go black, and then go back to the underscore, and then back, and then keep doing that.
He wasnt doing anything to it besides normal operation of a laptop. He shut it off one night and then when he got back on it the next day it was doing it.

Im putting it in memory because I believe it could be a harddrive problem.
 
Does it past the POST tests? (RAM, BIOS, etc)?

If so, can you boot from a DVD and/or USB Stick?

If you can boot from a DVD/USB stick, the hard drive may be the issue. You should try to access the drive and save any data first. If no important data is on the drive, try to install the OS on the drive.

I would bet you either have a bad hard drive or the OS corrupted - which means you would need to reinstall the OS.