Laptop freeze

Recently acquired my co workers laptop after he got a new one. He is not very savvy when it comes to pc world.
Satellite L305-S5901 Vista 32 Bit.
He apparently didn't understand about antivirus protection therefore had known for along time .
The laptop freezes after booting into any user acct . When one tries to open a program, view a folder contents, pretty much any action results in the whole screen freezing.
i have to reboot into safe mode to get some semblance of operation back.
Have run vista repairs and diagnostics resulting in no apparent problems.
Antivirus programs etc will not complete their scans.
I do not have the install discs, he bought this unit new w/ pre installed Vista.
Is there a way for Toshiba to remotely do a wipe then a re install of Vista ?
What other options do I have ?
thanks

Satellite L305-S5901
See the section Hard Drive Recovery Utilities, which begins on p. 60 of the User's Guide.
Satellite L300 Series User’s Guide
That model may or may not have all or some of the utilities. If it has none, you'll need to order the recovery discs from Toshiba.
Order Toshiba Recovery Media
-Jerry

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