Can I use my Recovery CD for Satellite A50 to repaire my WXP?

Dear sir/madam
I am a Student and I have a Toshiba A50 laptop. I have a system problem in my computer. when I was running an adware remover program the computer got stuck and when I tried to restart the computer, the computer starts and goes to the windows welcome screen(windows xp) and then the computer screen goes blank (or black).
When I restarted my computer it goes to this option screen where it gives, safe mode, last good configuration mode, etc.. I tried to start in safe mode, and in last good configuration mode, but nothing happened , the black screen appear after the windows welcome screen.
My friend advice me to do a windows XP repair. I have the Toshiba product Recovery CD, which I got when I purchased the laptop. My question is can I do a Windows xp repair from this CD ?
I booted my computer from this product recovery CD. It gave me 3 optons as below
1 Recover entire hard disk
Warning- all store data on your computer will be lost. Factory pre installed software will be installed/
2 Expert Recovery
Warning- this is for pc experts only. Factory pre installed software can be installed onto an existing (bootable) partition.
3 Exit
I need to recover all my files from my hard disk. That's my main concern.
So do you guys think that I can do a Windows xp repair from this product recovery CD?
Thanks
Robert

Hi Robert,
No you cannot use the recovery CD to repair your Windows installation. The Recovery CD can only be used to fully restore your operating system to its original condition when you first obtained it.
If you want to use the Windows recovery console then you will need to obtain a genuine Microsoft installation CD.
If your notebook has only one partition (the C: drive) then using the recovery CDs will effectively reformat your hard drive and will overwrite all your own data and files.
regards,

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