Portege R100 boot - black cursor screen flashing white underscore

the drive activity light flashes for a second then stops
the screen is black with a white cursor line underscore flashing in the top left

I tried to boot from the recovery CD, (press F12 etc.), but there just ejects the CD? !!

I tried to watch the BIOS by pressing ESC at startup, but it will not go into the bios screen?

Welcome Idaes

According to your description problems, that the best solution is to contact authorised Toshiba partner in your country. They check your laptop. There are few very serious issues and I really don't think you can do it alone.

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