I hold an IBM thinkpad laptop and it's died? adjectives its say is no operating system found? HELP?

i hold tried turing it on and off again? i own tried reloading windows XP? it only just won't do anything? it has worked only fine all this time and immediately this? what the hell can i do?


Answer:

Put in your restore cd, or your window cd. and restart the computer with it.



Also you can try to check within the setup your boot order to form sure it's booting from the right drive.
It sounds like your disk drive have failed. That's the probable effect but it may be the control circuit in the laptop that's one-time.



Get a replacement disk drive (2.5 inch 9.5mm... they come up to 160Gb new now) near an IDE interface not SATA. If that fixes it then you're wager on in business, if it doesn't after the laptop has to be in motion to IBM / a repair shop / laptop heaven depending how much it's worth.



The information from the disk is probably lost... unless you can coax it into life for a bit or foot a data taking back company.
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Make sure your Bios will support the larger drives. for the most part it isn't an issue, simply food for thought. As far as loosing your data, if you achieve a USB adapter you may be able to free some of the data. Spinrite is a sweet little program that can rescue some of the background.