vista home premium service pack 2
yes.downloaded hitman pro paid version and rebooted after scanning.
f8 is not an option.
Sometimes, F8 doesn’t show up. As soon as the Toshiba splash screen shows up, hit F8 several times and it should bring up the boot menu. If there isn’t an initial splash screen, as soon as it starts to power up, press F8 several times. Eventually it’ll beep meaning the kbd buffer is full but that means the O/S will recognize the F8 and give you the boot option if the boot loader is still there.
Try that and then we’ll go from there.
You should still be able to get to the bios with a bad master boot record. If not f8, maybe some other key. Could try to boot it up on something else... But something else isn’t right if you can’t get to the bios.
But anyway... That bootmgr can be rebuilt with the bootrec command in DOS. Google for “rebuild bootmgr” and there are KB articles aplenty. What version of windows you have isn’t too important. The DOS commands should all be the same.