Satellite C660-1FS - Windows 7 startup error

Hello to everybody. I have this laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium (no installation disk given by purchase). Since this morning I experience the following message/problem
Windows Error Recovery
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.If windows files have been damaged or configured incorrectly, startup repair can help diagnose and fix the problem. If power was interrupted during startup, chose start windows normally
Launch Startup repair (recommended)
Start Windows Normally
Both options do not work. Furthermore, Windows cannot enter in Safe Mode. I live in Belgium and I don't know what to do. Shall I try with a friend's windows 7 installation disk (from Dell notebook) or I should contact Toshiba directly?
Thanks in advance

Check if you can recover the notebook using HDD recovery procedure as described here:
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD1303440001R02.htm
If this will not work, you will have to install the OS using recover disk.
I assume you have not created the recover disk in the past. Right?
In such case you need to order the recover disk from here:
http://backupmedia.toshiba.eu/landing.aspx

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Hello John
Have you already got some answer from Toshiba?
What to say my friend? In my opinion the best advice you can get from Corel and Adobe. They have best experience with own product and have probably tested them on different hardware platforms.
Notebook manufacturers offer different notebook models with different hardware configurations. Some of them are cheap and offered with average hardware. The performance is not the best but good enough for every day activities like internet, office, mailing and so on.
On other hand there are notebooks with excellent and powerful hardware. Very often such notebooks cost twice as much as cheap low budget products.
Please dont understand me wrong but your C notebook is not the best one for usage with such powerful software.
I really dont know what Toshiba can do about it. I can imagine that you need other graphic driver but graphic driver support for mobile computers is pretty limited and I dont think you can do much about that.
What you can try is to download and install driver from graphic card manufacturer but you must do this on your own risk.
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