My Satellite L450D-113 wont start up

Hi Guys,
I would really appreciate some help with my laptop i have a toshiba satellite L450D-113
I noticed it was getting slow and then when i turned it on the other day it will not load up and just says
"DISK READ ERROR OCCURED PRESS CTR+ALT+DLT TO RESTART
If anyone has any idea how i could get this back up and running i would appreciate it,
i dont even mind restoring it to factory settings, as there is not a great deal of important docs that i need to save, but dont have a clue how i do it so i would need step by step explanation
Thanks

my sister had the same laptop that she doesnt use anymore so i swapped the hardrives it was all working fine! but obviouslly had a lot of programs and stuff on so i chose to restore it to factory settings,
it looked as if it was working and got stuck on a white page saying "please wait finishing the installation may take several minutes. please do not interrupt or shutdown the computer!
its been like this for a couple hours now????
what should i do?

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