Issue Restoring Toshiba Satellite Pro C50-A, Windows 8.1 Pro

The hard drive that came with my laptop was full so i purchased a new hard drive and i was using the system restore disks that came with my laptop to load windows onto the hard drive, it was working fine up until when i put the third disk in and the disk
drive didn't activate and it was stuck on the copying files screen, i left it be for half the day when i went to school and when i got back nothing had changed so i hard restarted it and tried again from disk one. same thing happens it worked fine up until
disk 3 when it just did nothing i had a solid white light (power) and i solid orange light (wifi) and the disk drive light would blink when i inserted the 3rd disk like it was reading it but then it just turned off ( no more light on disk drive)
Please help
Win 8.1 Toshiba Satellite Pro C50 - A

I would suggest you to use some disk checking tool and see if the reading/writing of data is working fine from all the disks. 
If its fine then you should talk to Toshiba Support on this. 
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If you are talking about the hard drive it works fine, i was running Ubuntu on it before this and i never had a problem, and if you are talking about the actual disks they work fine to i have used them before and they are from manufacturer, but to make sure
i put my old hard drive back in and made a recovery flash disk and its been stuck at 26% for like an hour now...

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    nTia89 wrote:try to downgrade the kernel with a working version
    Thanks for your reply! Actually, yesterday I upgraded to the new kernel (version 3.4.3-1) and my laptop has not freezed since then. So, maybe I will wait for a couple of days and hopefully mark this as solved.

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