Please Help...Spe​nt 4 days trying to return my toshiba to factory settings

Hi, I know nothing about computers or partitions or anything. I'm just trying to restore my Toshiba Satellite L755-S5110 to factory out the box conditions. I've done this with other Toshibas and it was very easy. I have read endless forum posts that say to press F8 or 0 or F2. I've probably tried combinations of all these things well over 100 times and cannot get any kind of screen to come up saying warning or related to factory reset. I have no disks (not even sure what this means). Basically when I press 0 i get a beep sound but then it just goes to the regular log in screen. I have tried f8 and it goes to a kind of basic page, i scroll down to the options mentioned in the forum but it just send me on my way to the login page.
Please someone help me, I'm about to just throw this computer in the trash

Thanks for your help but I have tried that on numerous occasions. Following the directions of page 64, I shut down the laptop and then reboot with F12
It takes me to a "Boot Menu." I move the cursor down to "HDD Recovery" as advised.
The next things I see is, "The hard drive recovery process has been selected. Please choose Yes (Y) if you are sure that you want to continue." I select Yes, but instead of going to a screen that would allow me to begin the restore process, it simply starts up and goes to my login screen.
Any idea why it is doing this?
Thanks!

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