Unable to restore laptop to factory settings

I'm very sorry if this is a total repeat post, but everything I have read prior has been unhelpful for my situation.
I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-S6816, and recently many of my drivers have become corrupt and the computer has been working poorly in general, so I thought restoring it to the factory settings was in order, but I have been so far unable to.
I have already backed up all of my files and tried the method of pressing F8 upon start up and navigating to the Toshiba Recovery Wizard, but when this loads it just prompts me for the recovery discs, which I don't have, and I don't think they came with the computer, which was bought in 2008.
I have also tried holding the zero key while the computer boots, but this just freezes the computer at the startup screen and does not load the recovery tool.
I still have access to my computer and have read that you can create restore discs using the Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator, but there is no such tool on my computer.
It looks like the problem is that either there is no recovery partition on my hard drive or it is inaccessible, and I don't have the restore discs either, so I don't know what else to do. Any help would be appreciated.

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Your system is from the time when Toshiba was just making the transition to consistently putting recovery partitions on their HDDs. As well, your specifications make no mention of the including the Toshiba Recovery Disk Creator software. However, the HDD recovery partition/utility is mentioned in your User's Guide, starting on page 57, with the proviso 'Available on certain models'. So, perhaps you have it, perhaps not.
Click on 'Start', type in   diskmgmt.msc , and click on this file. If you have the recovery partition you should see at least 3 partitions, a 'System Reserved' NTFS partition with no drive letter, C: drive NTFS boot partition, and another small partition with no drive letter that is not NTFS.
If you want, attach a picture of that here for us to check. Use PrtScr (Print Screen), paste that into Paint, save it as jpg type file, and attach it back here on your next post.
If your system did not come with a recovery partition, you would have received recovery disk(s) with the system when it was new, which you apparently no longer have, assuming you ever got them.
Whether or not your system has a recovery partition, if necessary, you can still order the recovery disks to rebuild your system:
Ordering Recovery Media
You could also try these third party recovery media suppliers. But, we have no information on them so use caution.
   Digitalmedia-labs.com
   MyRecoveryCDs.com
   RestoreDisks.com
   RestoreCD4u
Good luck.
Mike

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