Can't boot EQUIUM L300 using recovery disk

Hi,
I am looking at a friends L300 and it begins to boot Vista and gives the 'WINDOWS ERROR RECOVERY' window. When you continue with the repair option the laptop then continues to 'load the windows files' and moves onto the next part which shows Microsoft Corparation with the loading bar.
After about 40 to 50 seconds everything stops.
I have purchased a recovery disk (as the owner does not have one/did not create one) from Toshiba using the serial number on the base PSLB2E-003004KS. When I load from the recovery disk I get exactly the same result as above.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks for reading.
Andrew

Equium L300-146 (PSLB2E-003004KS)
So the recovery appears to run to completion and then Windows won't boot. Is that what happens, Andrew?
Be sure there are no peripherals connected to the computer.
Otherwise, I can only imagine a hardware or BIOS problem.
Can't hurt to flash the BIOS.
   BIOS Update for Equium L300, 1.50-WIN, 06/11/08
   bios-20081106121710.zip
   How do I update the BIOS on my Toshiba Notebook and where can I get the latest BIOS for my machine?
Good luck!
-Jerry

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