Vista - Error Msg: Disk Read Error...now new drive not working either

My Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 running Vista froze and would not
respond. I held the power button down to shut down. I have been unable
to start the computer since. I receive the message: "Disk Read Error.
Press Alt-Ctrl-Del to restart" Have done this hundreds of times and
nothing. Researched various places as to what to do and cannot come up
with a fix. Have used the Recovery Disk that came with it, the Ultimate
Boot disc, and several other fix tries...but nothing works.

So I threw in the towel and decided to buy a new hard drive. Installed
and used the recovery disk that came with the laptop to do a fresh
install of Windows Vista. Everything went smooth and it restarted and
as it was starting up, the Vista green "Welcome" screen appears and then
that's it. The next thing that appears on my screen is black screen
across the top half and a bottom half with some kind of color pattern
that looks like you'd get with a smashed monitor or something. And
that's it. It just hangs there.

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on what is going on?

Thanks.

fano3 wrote:
You have hardware failure with components other than the hard drive. Contact
Toshiba tech support for repair/replacement. The only other component aside
from the hard drive that is replaceable by the end user is the RAM. You can
test it, but from your description of the issue I doubt that bad RAM is the
cause. It is probably some component on the motherboard, the video, power,
the motherboard itself, etc.

Malke
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