Toshiba Satellite WILL NOT BOOT PROPERLY -- URGENT -- HELP NEEDED

Hey guys,
I have a Toshiba Satellite P745-S4217, running x64 Windows 7 Home Premium. On Saturday (19/4), a problem occured where my computer automatically booted in Safe Mode. Normally I wouldn't start my PC in Safe Mode, so I turned the computer off to reboot it normally. When I went to reboot, though, at the *Starting Windows* screen, it went straight to a BSOD and rebooted by itself, then giving me to option to Launch Startup Repair or try again. Of course, I went to launch the Startup Repair, but then it simply went into a black screen and stayed there for around 4 hours before I chose to reboot again. The second time I rebooted, it did the BSOD thing again and gave me the two options. Every time I chose Start Normally, it went into the BSOD and returned to the menu, and every time I launched Startup Repair, it went into the black screen.
By Sunday (20/4) I'd had enough of this. When I went to boot my computer, I rapidly tapped F12 to go into setup and reset the BIOS (another forum told me to do so). After this, however, when the computer went to reboot, it displayed a screen that said 'Select Proper Boot Device or Reboot and Insert Boot Device' or something along those lines. Since I don't have a Win7 Boot Disc (my PC came without that, a recovery disc, OR an installation disc since Win7 was preinstalled), I was thinking about creating a boot disc to solve the problem. However, since my PC runs slowly, I was also contemplating creating a restore disc that would return the PC to factory defaults -- yet, I don't have a hard drive to backup my files onto (I also have no way of doing this even if I did, remember my PC refuses to boot). Are there anymore solutions I could try to boot the computer correctly, or will I have to reinstall Win7? PLEASE HELP!

You might want to try any other suggestions in this article that you haven't already tried:
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