Satellite L350 and boot issues

I switch the laptop on it loads Toshiba screen then after about 5 secs I get a continuous beep.
The first time this happened I left it for about 3 mins then help the power button in and turned it off, now when I boot it up it asks whether to load normal or repair mode which ever I choose the same thing happens.
Help please!

Hi
Try to recovery the notebook again using the Toshiba HDD recovery option;
Boot up the notebook, choose Repair my Computer, then a new window should appear and there you could choose Toshiba recovery.
This should start the recovery procedure.
Note; before you would do this disconnect all external devices connected to the notebook (printer, scanner external HDD, etc.)
If this would be not possible then I would assume that this could be related to an hardware issuebut its really hard to say what could be wrong.

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