CyberWizard 0 Newbie Poster

Hi

A friend has given me a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300-155 laptop to take a look at.

It wont boot up!

It goes as far as a screen saying your last session was shut down blah blah blah do you want to start in
safemode
safemode with networking
safemode with command prompt
last known good configuration
normal mode

whichever option you select it loads for a split second as far as the windows loading screen and then flashes up an error message screen too quick to be able to read!
And then restarts and this loop continues no matter which option I choose!

The bios showed the harddrive
but when I tried to run the recovery disc it said there was no hard drive connected.
I have ran knoppix from a cd and everything else appears to be working fine to the best of my knowledge!

I have today tried a new hard drive and this hard drive also shows up in the bios but when I run the recovery disc it again says that no hard drive is connected.

I really hope somebody can help me as I am stuck as to my next move

Thank You

Stuart