My Computer Maybe Dieing!, =[ Options

[lkajsfklajskds]

Yesterday, me and my sister were watching some movies on my laptop. And then the whole thing froze. We did the natural thing:
CtrlAltDelete.

But the thing never came up. And i have a vista so the computer never turned blue first. Nothing seemed to work. So..
We just pressed the off button and it turned off.

And, ofcourse, we turned it back on. But i say that in the weakest of sense, because it didnt exactly turn on.

We pressed the button TO turn it on, but a screen came up that said:
"There as been a disk read error. Please press CtrlAltDelete"

My first thought was "Well, atleast my computers not dead"
So, we pressed CtrlAltDelete
The computer "restarted" but instead of fully restarting, it went back to that screen.
We even let the battery run out and tried it again but it didnt work =[

AAHHHHH, we could never turn on the computer!

DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHATS GOING ON?!
I DO NOT WANT TO REBOOT THE COMPUTER!!

(In case you're wodnering, i'm usig my sisters laptop. THANK GOD she's here for the week)

[lkajsfklajskds]

^thanks, but what do you think i can do?

the computer tech dude told me to do a bunch of stuff that didnt even work.
then he said he would send us windows vista cd and we could install it again.

[illriginal]

^thanks, but what do you think i can do?

the computer tech dude told me to do a bunch of stuff that didnt even work.
then he said he would send us windows vista cd and we could install it again.

Yeah that actually sucks... if you bought the laptop, you could just re-install the disc(s) that came with your machine.

Also keep in mind, if it does hold true that it's a "disk error" then it's your hard drive. But like I said, Vista is unreliable who it'll throw fake errors and act like there's actual errors.

Try this, turn your machine on, and quickly hit delete. This should give you access to your BIOS. Try to find "Master/Primary Hard Disk or HDD"

If you thoroughly searched for it and found it, it'll say Western or SONY or Seagate etc... and show the size such as 10gb or 200gb or 10,000mb/200,000mb

If not... then it could be that your Hard Disk died or might have some how got unplugged from the motherboard. And that's why you're getting that specific error.

If it's not hardware, then it goes into the software end. Could have been caused by a virus or deletion/modification of a system file or registry setting. Basically the operating system became corrupted.