Satellite L300-20D is not starting up fully

Please can someone help me out. I have a L300 20D toshiba and it has just stopped starting up fully. It goes to a black screen with the cursor arrow on or it just shows the launch windows (recommended repair) when i click this it does nothing. I have tried to restore using factory settings by pressing the zero key and then pressing power at same time to try and get the repair menu but still this isnt working.
Please if any suggestions then would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Hello
Before you spend hours and hours searching some repair options I recommend you to do the HDD recovery installation. After doing this you will have out of box state again and everything will work properly again.
How to start HDD recovery installation you can on this document - http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD9102IR0000R01.htm
If you have more questions please let us know.

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