Thank you ffg7 for your response. I did the 'hold down the 0 key' and got into recovery/fix screens. I think I went into advanced and it said something about removing data and I just read it as data thinking that the os was safe but then I had nothing. I have loaded it up with Ubuntu Mate and I did check if there was a partition in the hd but none. Soooo I will get recovery discs from Toshiba!
Again thank you and peace and joy to you and your family. Liam