Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600; Windows unable to load.

A friend recently gave me a refurbished model of this laptop that was updated with Windows XP Pro and it worked for about a month before a windows system file was corrupted. I got a new OS disc and replaced the file and it worked fine for about another month and when I started it today it gave me a message saying "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." and gives me a list of reboot options. I haven't installed anything at all or changed anything.
I've also tried each of the options and none will work. I get a blue screen that flashes up for a split second and then it goes back to the screen with the restart options.
I've tried going to the BIOS menu and setting it up for it to start with the cd drive with the OS disc in place to try to reformat and I get a screen with a short message that says "Media Test Failure. Check Cable" and then returns to the screen with the with the restart options. I've run out of ideas and nothing online I've been able to find so far has helped. If anyone has any ideas at all I would love to hear them.
I want to completely reformat this laptop if it's not too late.
Any help would be appreciated. Much thanks.
Joy

Thanks,
The HDD shows up in BIOS and the Media Test Failure, Check Cable message only appears when I try to boot from the CD/DVD drive.
Otherwise I get the screen giving me the option to start with safe mode, normally or a couple other options I can't remember from the top of my head. And then the blue screen of death flashes for a split second and says "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME " STOP 0x000000ED (0xaaaaaaaa,0xbbbbbbbb,0xcccccccc,0xdddddddd)
I haven't the faintest clue what happened to my poor laptop, but I believe it's decided it doesn't like me anymore.
Joy

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