I can't restore my Toshiba Satellite anymore!

Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite L450D-11X laptop, which I've been using for a few years now. I've reinstalled it several times over the years, by pressing 0 and the "on" button at the same time until the laptop beeps. However, I've been trying to reinstall the laptop recently, but nothing happens when I follow this method anymore; the Microsoft Windows 7 loading screen just appears and the computer boots up as normal. Do you know why this has started happening, and/or if there's any other way I can restore my laptop to its factory settings? Thanks!

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See the section Restoring the pre-installed software from your created Recovery Discs, which is on p. 3-12 of the User's Manual (attached).
If you have failed to burn the discs, you can obtain them from Toshiba.
Toshiba Europe Backup Media Online Shop
-Jerry
Attachments:
L450UsersManual.pdf ‏4522 KB

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