Cannot get into Safe Mode

Fairly new Toshiba Satellite p875-s7102 (purchased in Feb but rarely used). Laptop has not been working for a week, been trying everything. Now I cannot even get into Safe Mode. Almost every link I read shows how once you get to the Windows Start page but I can't even get to that. I have beat the hell out of F8 button to no luck. I have had every issue trying to fix this lap- error messages, blue screen, Disk at 100% usage, Check disc at start stopping at 40% scan, you name it it's happened. Any suggestions other than throwing this thing against the wall???

Satellite P875-S7102
I tried to follow the directions here http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=2737864 to restore to factory settings. I press 0 (zero).....
In Windows 8 things are different. This part was intended to help (but doesn't help much).
For laptops equipped with Windows 8, "Reset" returns your computer to its out-of-box, factory default conditions (removes your personal files and apps as well reset all settings to defaults) similar to a “System Recovery.” Refer to the How To: Understanding System Restore, Refresh, Reset, and, Recovery options in Windows 8 + Video knowledge base article for complete information.
In case Windows does not boot, you should be able to enter the recovery environment, which in Windows 8.x looks like the picture below.
From Troubleshoot you can go to System Restore, Safe Mode, Startup repair ("Automatic Repair"), a command prompt, the BIOS/UEFI, or even restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents from the recovery partition..
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, Toshiba says you can get there using F12 to reach the UEFI boot menu and then selecting HDD Recovery. One might expect that to take you to Toshiba's recovery back to factory-new, but it actually leads to the recovery environment above.
Please try these out many, many times and let us know what happens.
Do you have important files to rescue?
Have you upgraded to Windows 8.1?
-Jerry

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