Satellite wont boot up

When I go to turn on the laptop it goes rough the Toshiba start up, the Windows graphic shows then it holds for several minutes. Then if flashes some long message very fast (not enough time to read it). Then after it rolls back to the Toshiba boot up and this sane scenario happens again.
I tried
- Pressing F8, Repair. The only thing that happens is the mouse arrow shows up nothing else happens.
- Safe mode - Nothing
- Advancing to the last knows good boot, repeats above scenario.
Any advice would be great.

I had possibly the same or similar situation recently and it was after a blue screen crash, not sure if yours was....
But after talking too Toshiba customer support the only advice he could give me was to install the recovery disk, but this meant i lost everything, as i had not backed up.
The recovery disk got me back up and running but still have other issues, thats why i`m on this site...
Not sure if this is of help to you....
What operating sytem are you running?

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[Limitation of external boot media for Satellite, Satellite Pro C50 & C50D devices|http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB3B03JA0000R01.htm]
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