Using restore disk on Satellite L305-S5919

Question

Two years ago we bought our daughter a Toshiba Satellite L305-S5919 to use at college.  Near the end of her first year it overheated and she needed to have a new hard drive installed, which was done under warranty at Best Buy.
This spring she started getting an intermittent, high-pitched noise.  When the noise started, her computer would either freeze or slow way down.
We were told by the geek squad at Best Buy to remove a lot of the startup programs, which we did.  Still had the noise. I updated her anti-virus and ran it, installed all the updates that had been downloaded but never installed, ran disk cleanup, and ran disk defragmenter.
Then since it was still making the high-pitched noise I tried scandisk.
Scandisk showed the following message - I think it was on the 4th step:  "Windows replaced bad clusters in file 153340 of name \SYSTEM~1\{A45BA~1"
After that it wouldn't boot past the Toshiba splash screen.  I can use the F2 and F12 commands from that screen, but it I just let it go it says a "disk read error occurred press ctrl-alt-delete to restart" - which just does the same thing over and over and over.  One time it made a sound like breaking glass, other times the hard drive just grinds away.
So I went back to Best Buy and the geek squad said use the Restore disks that my daughter had bought last year when she had the hard drive replaced.
I am currently running disk 1 of the restore disks.  The geek squad said it could take 5 hours to complete - is that correct?  At first there was the word Microsoft with some bars running across the bottom of the screen.  Now that's gone away and I have the cursor arrow in the middle of a black screen.  The hard drive indicator is faintly flashing intermittently.  For a while it was making grinding noises, then squeaky sounds.  Now the only noise I hear is from the cooling mat underneath the laptop (don't want it to overheat again). 
Should it be showing me any progress report on the screen?  Is it stuck?  Should I eject the restore disk and start over?  Should I take the laptop to the nearest bridge and throw it into the river?  Or am I just being impatient?
Assuming the restore works, is the hard drive likely to fail again?  Why can't hard drives last longer than a year?

Answer 1

I am wondering why you haven't recd any replies from the "Super Contibutors" here?
Almost identical problem here in my exact same Toshiba model.  PC should be covered by the Lemon Law, just like cars.  As far as I can tell, if a hard drive caves in within 2 years it's a lemon in the first place, pretending to be a PC.
Toshiba should make Recovery Media FREE if their models fail as fast as this one did for me  --and I and I guess hundreds of others who bought the lemon in dusguise.