Equium A210-1AS wont boot from a CD

I posted before about the UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME blue screen and have now decided to restore the computer.
I can not access the recovery HDD.
I have created a windows recovery disc my self and have changed the BIOS order to CD first and after the Toshiba screen it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor (_) and i can hear the disc moving, then switches back to windows (leading to the blue screen).
I also tried creating a Live CD of SLAX so i could see if it would boot on that and could retrieve files but does the same black screen with cursor.
I am going to order a recovery CD from Toshiba, if my other 2 CD's don't work, will the Toshiba one work?
Thanks.

Hi
Hmm the Toshiba recovery disk (which you created) should contain the SATA drivers already so you dont need to switch the SATA mode to compatible
But I think you should try it
Go to BIOS and set SATA mode from AHCI to compatible
Then you should try to boot from the recover disk again
If this will not help and if you would not be able to recover the unit from the HDD using HDD recovery procedure then you should check if the recovery disk from Toshiba would help you
If this will not help, then an hardware fault is possible!

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Hi everyone, I'm really hoping someone out there can help me today!
My daughter is in the middle of her GCSE Exams and has a problem with her Equium A210 - 1AS.
It was working fine until last night and now all she gets when booting up is:
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> Toshiba has lost any future business from me, and the many others I have read about in various forums.
Sorry to hear this but I don't know why you think so. Fact is that Toshiba and any other notebook manufacturer has specific rules how all this works. In the whole story problem is that you, and many other people you found in Internet, are not familiar with all this and you build your opinion based on your interpretation. Unfortunately it is far away from reality.
When you bought your notebook you were obligated to create recovery DVD and use it for further OS installation. This was described in Toshiba reminder with clear instruction how to do this.
When you buy Microsoft installation disc and loose it you will not get new one for free although you have bill and evidence you bought it on regular way.
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My computer was working fine, i shut it down, the next time i start up it shows the windows loading screen, then for a second a blue screen flashes by, it restarts and repeats, i shut it down and started tapping F8 untill the advanced boot options comes up, safemode ect... none of them work and all lead to the blue screen, if i select the repair option at the top "Repair Your Computer" it begins to load with a vista background and cursor and then shows the error "The installed program cannot start. click OK to turn off the computer."
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