Satellite C50-A-19T - recovery disks not working

I have a Toshiba Satellite C50-A-19T laptop with OS windows 8.1
Recently my laptop had booting problems so i contacted toshiba support and they told me to get recovery disk from backupmedia.toshiba.eu and i ordered the disk and it arrived today#
When i enter the recovery disk and boot from the disk drive (ODD) it brings the windows logo then after a minute it goes to a blank screen and i waited and after a while it was still a blank screen
I had already went into the BIOS to change the settings to boot from the CD but even after that the same problem persists
Please help

Hi
Go to BIOS and disable the option called: secure boot
Now you should be able to boot from the ODD.
By the way: please check if the HDD is listed on the first BIOS page (name, size, etc)
In case the HDD details are not visible, the HDD isnt recognized by BIOS this could be related to HDD malfunction.

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Unfortunately, there are hundreds of posts like yours and unfortunately, very few answers. I have yet been able to help someone get their recovery disks to work.
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I have a Toshiba Satellite L350 which I bought some years ago
Originally it was a vista home premium laptop and I opted for the Toshiba windows 7 upgrade and its been pretty much trouble free .
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Have you any reports of such of this previously or am I doing something stupid?
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>I had bought one from Toshiba when I got the machine originally and had made one myself before the upgrade to windows 7...
Have you tested both of them in the past?
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Success!
Although I have to say that with a poplation of over 7 billion I did think that my problem would have attracted more response than just one reply.
However, my thanks to Indypat for that. You gave me the hope to keep trying.
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During burning process i get an error that say that is impossible read the file D:\ZZImages\ZZImages\install29.swm (the .swm file in error change with different attempts).
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> I don't have a free usb drive to test the usb mode.
I would recommend you to purchase an separate USB memory stick and to create the such recovery USB flash memory media.
Please check also this different procedure described in this Toshiba HowTO
[How to create a USB recovery media flash drive from recovery ISO images- or discs (DVDs)|http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD4103KB0000R01.htm]
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> 1) External Monitor - External display works fine (connected via VGA)
This is most important info which you have provided in your message.
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If you have more than 4 partitions you will need to delete the extra partition/partitions, then convert the hdd back to Basic.
Older versions of Partiton Wizard Free work:
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