Using Toshiba recovery disks my L505d ES5025 fails the Windows 7 setup

Hello,
My L505 progressively got slower and started having errors.  Then Windows wouldn't load regularly, only in safe mode.  Then Safe mode would load.  I then purchased the recovery disks for my model and started the recovery process.  Everything was going smoothly.  All three disk were installed, and Windows was doing its things setting up for the first time use.  After the fourth or fifth time Windows restarted it froze. 
I turned it off with the power switch. Turned it back on and asked if I wanted to start in safe mode or regular.  I choose regular.  It started and went to the log on screen. The Administrator account was the only one to choose from.  I clicked it and it said that account had been deactivated.
I turned it off and back on and went with safe mode. Worked fine.  Added another account all looked good. Turned it off turned it back on, went to log on screen choose the new account, then it went to blank desktop and froze. 
I have tried the recovery 3 times. Once using the wipe HDD method thinking something might be causing a problem. Nothing worked. Is this a hardware or software problem?  What should my next steps be?
Thanks You,
John

It sounds like the recovery process isn't completing successfully, which makes me think it's a hardware problem. The HDD is the most likely to fail, but it's hard to know for sure. If you have another HDD that you could try, I'd try that next.
- Peter

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