Major recovery problem. Help please!

[lukets]

Computer: Toshiba laptop L50-A
Windows 8 upgraded to 8.1

Background info: PC was running slow so backed up all data and did a system restore.
 PC was still running slow so figured I would do a system recovery from disks I made when I first got the pc. PC was still running slow and it didn't seem to wipe everything so figured it must of kept whatever virus with the other things it didn't delete. 
Then I used the disks and did a full deletion of data and partitions and override all sectors (I regret this since I wasn't sure what partitions were.) 
Now thinking I have a clean slate I go to do system recovery with disks again and I get 

error: recover image failed 0x0000003 or sometimes 0x00000002. 

The system won't go to any windows os at all and I've tried every possible thing through the disk restore/recovery/repair to no avail. 

My only guess of what i can do is 1)somehow order and try other recovery disks (even though mine should be fine considering they are not damaged and I made them right when I got the pc)
2) Order new windows install disk? I have no idea if it would even work
3) take computer into some techy and pay them to fix it.

Any suggestions? Can I download a recover image somewhere and use that? I'm lost and not the most tech savvy guy.
Help if you can,
Thanks.
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[Warukyure]

Best Bet is probably ordering disks directly from Toshiba.

Humour me though, and try to run a test on your HDD just in case though. Just to see if there's anything wrong with the drive itself.

 

[magnogreato]

I had a problem similar to yours with a desktop with not enough RAM installed...consequently I bought a new HP envy with 10GB of RAM and that solved my problem....it appears that when we want to run a few programs or apps at the same time, it'll run, but very slowly and by adding as much RAM as you can handle, that enables the PC to store/run programs better/faster/storing without slowing your system down. I have just went thru a System Recovery (which I won't do again) and lost a large folder and some separate Word doc's even tho they were all stored in a folder by themselves. I can't find them.
You might want to go a "Refresh" back to a known good date and start from there, but also try installing more or as much RAm as you can.