Recovery Lock-Up Satellite A75-S231

i am trying to restore my Toshiba Satellite A75-S231 to factory settings using the Recovery Applications & Drivers DVD which came with my computer.
Booting the machine with the recovery DVD
about 3-8% into the recovery, the system shuts down completely.
Booting without DVD i keep getting this error message
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet COntroller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
i did reset the BIOS to default settings and that did not prove useful
Toshiba 1-800 tech support is completely useless.
thanks in advance for your help.
mike

Your computer is trying to find a bootable device and the network adapter is what it finds thus telling you that it cannot boot to it because there is no network cable plugged in. I say it is a hard drive failure.

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