Computer Broke!

[Monarch]

Oh goody! Yay for me!

I wake up today and find that my PC has "no operating system" installed and worst above all else it "cannot detect a hard drive" which it has TWO of!

THANKFULLY I made a back-up of my most important things yesterday (though I lost my pictures ) on my USB flash drive.

Now on top of my other expenses, which include $230 for a new cell phone and service, about $1000 into this company, and various others, I now have to somehow get enough money for a new computer.

Yay for me.

I'm on my laptop right now..which is listed on eBay for sale ending in 2 days ironically:
View item on eBay

*sigh*..

[trousershorts]

This is very common problem. All you will need is a windows boot disc. One of your two hard drives has failed or has a virus, which destroyed the master boot record, thus "no operating system". You'll need to boot from a CD or floppy and format the infected hard drive. If it has indeed failed (you won't hear it spin up), then replace it. To correct the master boot record, boot from the windows installation disc (XP, right?) into system recovery mode. Run the "fixmbr" command and you should be set. That's all it takes ^^

[Robi]

Of course it saying it can't detect either hard drive might make things more complex than just repairing the mbr.. Do you have access to another desktop to test the drives or an external drive to swap out?

[Monarch]

Alright, yay, my new computer came (which is pretty l337 if I may say) and I'm on it right now.
I am so happy...this computer r0x0r5.

On a side-note, I was able to fix my computer...it was some inner-hardware problems I had to fix.
Thankfully I know how to build a computer.