Computer help - NO BOOTABLE DRIVES

[Camble]

My missus has a Dell laptop, I was using it the other day and suddenly the screen went black, I was simply using a text editor at the time.

When the laptop was powered back up, it beeped twice and told me that there was a problem with the "disk" and everytime startup repair was run, it would stop at the same point and freeze.

I left it to complete the startup repair, and when I came back it has gone to the black screen again. I powered it back up and it beeped again, displaying a message telling me: "NO BOOTABLE DEVICES".

I have a windows 7 disc that I can load onto the machine, but when I try and boot from disc, it starts to go through the process, but then tells me that I cannot format/install to the HD, all of the options to do anything to it are greyed out.

Any help please? Need this sorted as quick as possible.

Cheers in advance
Liam

 

[cadab]

Depends how good your are with computers, if your fairly pc literate you could try using 'Spinrite'(google it) that will attempt to get the data off and fix the drive I think. It just downloads as a small .iso image, burn that to a disk, pop the disk in, boot the laptop and it should run the spinrite program.

 

[JackoR26]

Sounds like hard drive failure, get it logged with Dell if its under warranty and they will send out a replacement

 

[Camble]

Sounds like hard drive failure, get it logged with Dell if its under warranty and they will send out a replacement

Just gone out of warrenty bud