Cannot use F8 option to set my notebook into original factory settings

Hi,
I tried this last night, and when I tried to do the recovery via F8, I got the message:
"Recovery of operating system is impossible! Could not find Hard drive disk recovery folder on the second drive of the first hard drive. There is no valid hard drive disk recovery environment on this computer"
I was completely baffled, I'm assuming it meant the 'HDD Recovery' folder in the E drive partitioned. But I have in no way changed or modified any thing in this folder.
Please help.
The only other option I seem to have found on this forum is to create a hard drive recovery disk from the toshiba software that came on the laptop, although I am not too sure how this will work.
Many thanks if anyone can help, my laptop is running really slow and I think i have out something bad on it without knowing it.
JAde

Hi Jade
You are right. This HDDRecovery folder cannot be found and recovery procedure cannot start.
Is this folder still available on second partition?
Have you changed anything with partition?
Have you may be removed this folder to external HDD and later moved it back on second partition?
One more thing: have you created recovery media recommended by Toshiba reminder?

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