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Question

new hard drove booting laptop

Sep 10, 2015 3:14PM PDT

Hi
I purchased a new hard drive for my Toshiba satellite laptop.
I had the recover files saved onto a disk for rebooting.
I rebooted the laptop entered the discs and let it do its work.
I turned off laptop and started it.
The only thing that is coming up is boot manager press Ctrl alt Del. Pressed nothing happened I might have a slight problem with my key board so that might be reason for not working.
Started computer pressed f2 f10 and nothing has worked I pressed 0 whilst starting it and nothing .
Can someone PLEASE help me identify the problem because I honestly don't understand when there is no option I can press to help restart or reboot.
Thanks ☺

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tell about the recover files
Sep 10, 2015 3:33PM PDT

how were the recover files created? what is the full model number of the laptop? what is the operating system?

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hard drive problem
Sep 11, 2015 1:52AM PDT

I had discs made up for Toshiba recovery beforehand. The laptop is a Toshiba satellite c650d-19x

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Re: booting
Sep 11, 2015 2:27AM PDT

Filling the new hard disk from the recovery disk should work, of course. However, that should not be related to not being able to enter the BIOS-setup.
- Can you still boot from a bootable disk (like your recovery disks or a Linux disk)?
- Can you still boot from the old hard disk?
- If you boot from a Linux disk, what does it say about the contents of the hard disk?
- If you disconnect the hard disk and put no optical disk in, you surely should be able to enter the BIOS setup, even before you get an error message about not being able to find somethng to boot from. If that doesn't work, fix that first.

Kees