Welcome to windrivers cthierfelder

Seems to me that without either a 98 cd or some working recovery cd's, we are left with just one option, fix your current install ! (though have a search about on the hard drive of your lappie - you may find the windows 'cabs', the files it installs from, 'lurking' somewhere on your machine which might be enough)

So what error messages are we getting ?

Btw what do you mean exactly by 'tryed to use the toshiba recover cd but it will not start' ... won't 'see' the recovery disk at all & fails with some error, or just tries to always boot from hard drive ?