Laptop help

[FrancoBranca]

Need your help brahs,

Woke up this morning ans switched on the lappy (Gateway VR46 Edition), left it running while i went to get some brekky, came back to this:

'Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (BUILD 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

For Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller v2.0.0.9(05/8/09)

Check cable connection!
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
_'


And it does literally nothing pressing any button, (apart from the on/off button which just brings it back to this screen.

The laptop has no disc drive, i dont even have a plug in one at the moment.

Any ideas brahs?

[kwik10z]

It seems the laptop is not reading the hard drive. Maybe your HDD has a loose connection or has been jarr'd loose somehow. Try reseting the drive into the socket, and boot the machine up.

[Sparafusile]

Your hard drive is lose or bad. Open up the panel on the back of your laptop that has a symbol that looks like a cylinder. Make sure the hard disk is nice and snug. If it is, and it still doesn't work, it's bad. Send in for a replacement. I hope you backed your stuff up somewhere else.

Just a side note. If it does start working again, back your stuff up somewhere else.

[seanb1979]

as they said hard drive is most likely toast... i recommend pulling it out and trying it on a different machine... it could be only a partial corruption, enough to keep windows from booting but not enough to make the data inaccessible... plug it into another motherboard on a desktop, or use a sata to usb adapter to hook it up to another machine