Satellite Pro A200 failing to boot

Hi Guys,
Needing help urgently.
Laptop Sat Pro A200 will power up as far as the Toshiba password logon and then the cursor hangs top left corner, It wont enter F8 configurations.
This unit is 3 months old Sat Pro A200 XP Pro.
Used the laptop sunday lunchtime and set a system restore before installing some apps. I can get to the Bios.
Also I used the Recovery Disk as a last resort. I am on holiday a week today and hopefully with the laptop.
deejaydee

You said you have used the Recovery CD? Well, I presume you were not able to boot from them. Or Im wrong?
Usually you should try to boot from the bootable CD like recovery CD, Win XP/Vista CD or Linux CD. This could helps to check if an hardware problem exists.
If you want to boot from the CD I would recommend pressing the C button immediately after notebook starting. This should enable the booting from CD/DVD drive.
At the other hand you could also try the F12 button. This enables the boot manager from where you could choose the ODD.
Bye

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- maybe the HDD is faulty and therefore the notebook tries to boot from LAN
- maybe the MBR (master boot record) is faulty
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