Satellite recovery failed half way through, now nothing.

I was recently brought a Satellite L300 series by a friend with a complaint that it would not boot into Vista, got as far as the start up timer bar but no further and then just sat there for hours, over 12 by the way at last count, and still no windows.
Anyway after numerous attempts to do a start up repair, with exactly the same results, hours or nothing happening, my only suggestion was a complete re-install from the onboard copy of the operating system, hence back to factory defaults.
Followed the normal procedure, and set the thing going on a full re-install, should take about 30 mins normally from past experience of this laptop, though I have to say this one has always been abnormally slow at times to do anything.
Coffee, a read of the news and back to the bench, !!!!!????. laptops shut down, work shops in darkness, main breakers tripped and the laptops battery has run down and shut it off........HALF WAY THROUGH THE RECOVERY.
Now all it does is load to a page that informs me a file is missing/corrupt and stops with enter/esc options and back we go to the same page again, thing is now a useless peice of junk unless i can get it to complete the install for which it gives no options or clue as to how to proceed.
No recovery discs are available for this one,  though one has been ordered and is on the way.
My questions are simple really.
A, has anyone any sensible suggestions as to how to proceed to complete the process.
B, why have Toshiba not forseen this problem and taken steps to formulate a solution.
C, how many perfectly good laptops have been junked simply because of this problem.
Regards.
Cypherus.

Hello, mozzo1. 
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
When experiencing issues restoring or updating an iPhone, here are the best articles to go through.  If you received a specific error number when restoring, see the section labeled Get more help in the second article below.
iOS: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
iOS: Troubleshooting update and restore issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275
Cheers,
Jason H.

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