I ran the recovery discs for my laptop. Now I get the error message "a disc read error occurred" . Press Ctrl + Alt+ Del. but it keeps going back to the same screen.
It sounds like the hard drive is dead or dying. You'll have to try to get the recovery partition off the old drive using imaging software or install from scratch with an xp disk on a new hard disk. Sorry......see it says vista...switch the last line to install from scratch with vista disk on new hard disk.