Equium L300 - Cannot boot from recovery disk or other CDs

Equium L300
bought new used 3 months the left for 9 months. Dead flat battery.
On restart
boot from hard -> disk Bootmgr is corrupt will not boot
boot from Recover disk cd -> The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match computed checksum
boot from dvd windows install -> same as above
Tried numerours disks but will not boot.
No will it boot from USB stick. Pulled hard disk tried elsewhere seems ok.
Bios looks ok and sees hard disk and dvd etc
Any ideas otherwise a pretty dear machine for two monthe use.
Was just out of guarantee before fault appeared
Thanks chris

Hi buddy,
> But still think bios is corrupted
If you think so, then contact your authorized service provider. The technicians can check your notebook and try to reflash the BIOS. The technicians are really experts and so this shouldnt be a problem for them.
Here you can search for one:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > Support & Downloads > Find an authorized service provider

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