Satellite L500-1XL does not start successfully - stay in loop

The above machine was working fine until today.

Then when I turned on, it just sat on the Toshiba page, asking me to press F2 or F12.
I didn't know what to do so I ran the recovery disk (factory) which all seems to install ok but...

Now when I turn it on, it displays the original Toshiba start screen and stays there until I manually have to press F12 to select boot from the hard drive.
From there, it takes me to the Windows Boot Manager and I have to select the windows operating system 7.

Next, I get the "start windows for the first time" screen for a minute or two until it restarts and I have to press F12 again.
It repeats just all this and more in the loops.

I tried the recovery disk, but the same thing happens.

I went into the bios and made sure the hard drive is set as the first boot device and I put the bios by default, but nothing seems to make any difference.

Any help/advice greatly appreciated.

> I've been into the bios and made sure the hard drive is set as the first boot device and I put the bios by default, but nothing seems to make any difference.
Hmm. It was my idea I thought that maybe the HARD drive has not been chosen as first boot device, but it seems that this is not the case.

I m wondering why you should choose Win 7 in the Boot Manager. Usually, there is only a single OS installed and boot manager should not appear but Win 7shoudl automatically load

I think you should form the HARD drive once more should be deleted all partitions and then you should try Notepad recovery using the recovery disk
If that is not enough then I recommend you HARD drive. Perhaps it fails and the new HARD drive would be necessary.

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