A45-S120 - WinXP corrupted, unable to change boot order to restore from DVD recovery medium

I have a Toshiba A45-S120 laptop that has previously worked fine. I hadn't turned it on for several weeks. When I tried last week, after the WinXP splash screen came up, the progress bar completed one pass and then the video froze and showed a ghosted image of the WinXP logo off to the right of the real one and the two images were displayed in alternating vertical stripes, almost as thought you were looking through vertical blinds. At that point, there was no further boot progress.
Pressing Esc got me into the BIOS page, so it doesn't appear that there was a hardware video problem. The only options that I can could in the BIOS were the time and password (which is not set). With the recovery DVD in the drive, I couldn't get the system to boot to the CD/DVD drive no matter what I did. I tried all the suggestions of F12, F2, etc., and nothing highlighted any of the row of icons across the bottom of the Toshiba spalsh screen. When I booted, unless I pressed Esc, the system recognized the failed Windows boot and went into the text screen giving me all the safe mode start options.
After typing the above, I had one other thought - to try to force the issue, I replaced the hard drive with one that should have been blank but I got the same louvered WinXP logo. Thinking maybe I had a drive that wasn't blank as it should be, I tried a known blank drive. Now I get no response from the system at all when I try to power it on, even when swapping back to either of the other hard drives.
Is this stuff symptomatic of a dying system or is there something I can do to resurrect it and force the DVD restore somehow? Refurbishing desktops is a hobby of mine but I haven't had much experience with troubleshooting and repairing laptop issues, so thanks in advance for any pointers.
JEFF
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Well, I have good news and confusing news to report...
The dongle worked as advertised. I booted with it installed, powered down and removed it, then restarted the machine. I was able to change the boot device and enter BIOS with the ability to change the boot order, etc.
I then ran the recovery process. The ghosted image restored and then, when the machine restarted, I got the same problem that started it all... the WinXP splash screen came up, the progress bar completed one pass and then the video froze and showed a ghosted image of the WinXP logo off to the right of the real one and the two images were displayed in alternating vertical stripes, almost as thought you were looking through vertical blinds. There were also 4 or 5 thin vertical stripes that were flashing as though video was being displayed though them like it used to if you used an older monitor with a new system that couldn't display things properly. At that point, there was no further boot progress.
In order to do a bit more troubleshooting, I booted the system with a live Linux CD - it booted and ran OK. I then tried installing Ubuntu. It started and then the screen went wonky again, with pixellating lines all over. I then repartitioned it, ran scandisk on the hard drive overnight (no errors), and reran the recovery process. Same shadow image when the XP splash screen appears - and it does this both during the ordinary booting process as well as during an attempted safe mode boot.
As I was typing the above, I remembered one other thing I meant to try. I reset the BIOS to default values and reran the recovery process - still a messed up WinXP splash screen after the progress bar makes 2 or 3 passes.
If anyone has ideas, I'd be grateful for the help.

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http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > Support & Downloads > Download Drivers
I also use this pretty nice and easy tool to change BIOS settings and I have taken a screenshot where you can see its possible to change the boot order with one click only :)
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I hope it helps

BIOS Changed Boot Order By Itself

I have a Pavilion H8-1360t. When I got it in March I installed a Samsung SSD. I copied the original Hard Drive to the SSD and made the SSD my boot drive. I also swapped the SATA ports becasue the HDD was on the high speed on. For the next 4 months I've been booting every morning and shutting down at night with no problems. The SSD boots quick and again, no problems. The SSD was my C drive and the original HDD was now my F. I only used it for Ghost backups of the C drive. I also Ghost to an external USB3 drive.
This morning when I booted I noticed that all my icons were missing as was all my data and all my programs I had installed. AFter some research I found, in the Computer display of my system, that my SSD was now the F drive and the original HDD was now my C drive. So I was booting using the original HDD that came with the system.
I tried to figure out how to tell the BIOS to boot from the SSD as it had been, but I cannot figure out which drive in the display list is it and besides that I want it to do that by default. I'd also like to know how or why the PC decided to reassign thedrive letters and boot from the HDD now.
HP refuses to help saying that since I have user installed devices they do not have the tools to help. They also cannot tell me how to get the Boot Order changed. But even if I could do that, and I've tried going into BIOS setup and Boot Priority, I cannot get it to boot using the SSD. HP suggested I go to some third party. But there's got to be a solution I can do. My last choice would be to copy the entire SSD to the HDD (the SSD id only 500GB and the HDD is a Terrabyte). I assume then that when it would boot from the HDD the data I copied over to it (using Ghost) would make it look then like the SSD did. My loss would be speed but at least I'd have critical data that I now cannot access.
I am really up the creek right now Any ideas?
Thanks

I took the PC to Fry's. They think there's a problem with the SSD. Even though I am able to see it and to move data off of it, there is some problem during boot that tells W7 and BIOS that is cannot boot and that is what is causing the system to then look for another boot drive. It then finds the hard drive, which came with the system and is connected, and is bootable, and thus it boots from that drive and also remaps the drive letters, effectively swapping the C and F between the SSD and HDD.
Now I am trying to move all my data to the HDD, install Office and other programs, and just boot to the HDD until I can get the SSD examined for problems and a new one, if necessary, put in.
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T520/T420 UEFI BIOS Management - Changing Boot order

WIth the T410/T510 I could use the SetConfig.vbs to change the boot order in BIOS. However with the newer laptops (T420, T520, X220) that have the UEFI BIOS the SetConfig.vbs doesn't seem to work. Is there another way of scripting the boot order change? I also tried running the ListAll.vbs and didn't see anything related to the boot order listed in WMI. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I tried your exact script on T520 with BIOS 1.27
1. in the case where LAN cable is connected to network with PXE server <-- system booted to LAN successfully
2. in the case where LAN cable is not connected <-- system booted to HDD after LAN boot failed to detect media
3. in the case where LAN cable is connected to network without PXE server <-- system booted to HDD after LAN boot timed out
So I could not repro any problem. What am I missing? Are you on a dock? Are there any other peripherals connected?
As for your other question, I'm sorry that I'm not following it. You can change the boot order in the Startup menu, the very first option is "Boot" where you can set any boot order you want just like previous systems.

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