Windows 8 laptop won't start on my Toshiba laptop

My Toshiba satellite laptop , model : C55t-A5222 . It won't load windows 8.1. I updated some software and now Windows won't start. The computer goes straight to automatic repair. I would like Windows back so I can use Excel.

Satellite C55T-A5222
You need to reach the recovery environment.
If you have another Windows 8.x computer with the same bitness, you can create a repair thumbdrive.
If not, according to Microsoft trying and failing to boot several times will eventually take you to the recovery environment instead. According to Toshiba, you can also get there by pressing F2 or the zero key on powering up. If you have completely shut down Windows 8, Toshiba says you can get there using F12 to reach the UEFI boot menu and then selecting HDD Recovery. Please try these out many, many times and let us know what happens.
If all else fails, you can download a Windows 8.1 installation media, which will enable to to access the recovery environment.
-Jerry

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Create-a-system-repair-disc
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Password:
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BUGS
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