"A disk read error has occurred; press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart"

Hello,
I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop (A205-S5804) running Windows Vista Home Premium; I have had this laptop since 2008. All of a sudden, it decided to crash on me the other day. I also have been having issues with my CD-ROM drive as well; it won't seem to start up the CDs I put it in automatically. I have to give it a few tries for it actually work. 
I took the Recovery, Applications/Drivers CD to see where that might get me to solve this problem. I finally have gotten to the point where it has asked me to start Windows in Safe Mode and in other options. Just when I think I have gotten to work, it's newest stopping point is getting it into safe mode, but then just the mouse pointer is showing and nothing else but a black screen. I've done this several times now. 
So with all this being said, is there anything else I can do? I've tried hitting F8, I've tried holding down the 0 (zero) key to bring up the default Toshiba restore thing right when my computer starts, but that's not even working. 
Guess my main question is, do you think that my data has already been lost? Or what? Kind of hard to say, I'm sure. 
Hope to hear from somone soon
Thanks

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It's unclear exactly what you did with the 'Recovery, Applications/Drivers CD'. So, your data may or may not be already gone.
The Toshiba Recovery Disk Creator program does not appear in your model's list of installed software. But, the recovery utility is mentioned in the recovery section, starting on page 57 of your User's Guide, with the proviso 'Available on certain models'. Your system came out on the cusp of when Toshiba began consistently installing the recovery partition on their HDDs.  So, you may or may not have it.
To try running the Toshiba Recovery from the HDD one more time. Power off your unit, press and hold down the '0' (zero) key, power on your unit, keep holding the '0' key down until you hopefully see the Toshiba Recovery Wizard menu, you could then return your unit to its factory default out-of-the-box setup.
However, if you can and do run this, your data will definitely be gone. Do you have data you wish to try to save?
Mike

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