Okay, I’m in a fix. Whenever I try to boot up my (WinXP) laptop, I either get a “disk read error” or a “no bootable devices” error. What the hell do I do now??
Send it to technicians. Sounds like a Hard Drive fault.
Do you have a floppy disc in the drive?
HD falure?? Could be the cable… Unless you know what your doing don’t attack the Laptop. I’ve seen inside my mates old IBM thinkpad and it’s packed in there. He is an IT Hardware Istaller so he has years of experinace. Pie might of seen his work or his sister (DT sig) should of seen it and not know about it.
Big Nutter
Actually, I did a Google search, and so far what I’ve found seems to be, um, at least functioning.
Either its an HD failure, or the cable connecting the HD is not connected to the motherboard. Since its a laptop, I’m guessing its the former, sadly. You haven’t waved a magnet or otherwise put the laptop in any dangerous conditions, have you?
Edit: Try checking your BIOS and see if your’ HD is being detected. That’ll give a better idea on things.
It appears that a) it does detect the HD, and b) the fix works. Huzzah!
What fix? Did you figure something out from there?
URLdoken! (fourth post there) … and I just noticed that, having successfully loaded Windows a little bit, it’s running CHKDSK again.
EDIT: … and when I left the room for a minute after restarting it when that was finished, when I came back the screen was blank. Neither CTRL-ALT-DEL nor pressing the power button had any effect. WHY DO LAPTOPS NOT HAVE RESET BUTTONS LIKE NORMAL COMPUTERS!?
Man, you got a bad laptop :P, how many issues have you had already? 
Issue #3 of “Capcom Gals.” And now it seems to be fixed for now. ^^
I hate it when stuff like this happens. My friend’s comp just died again today. He’s got a bad motherboard and the store that carried it won’t replace it until the computer is totally inoperable, or if it completely dies again. Then it’ll be the third time in a year that it required in store tech support and they are obligated to replace it. We just spent the day reformatting it twice. The motherboard has a weird glitch where it won’t let us install Windows XP unless we intall Me first. It was a major pain in the ass.
Well, I’m glad you got the program fixed Yar. Let’s just hope it doens’t happen again.
“no bootable devices”?
more like <i>ho</i> bootable devices" !
… Thanks, DT, I needed that. 