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)

[yaamakoh]

faulty ram could prevent bootup too. in bios check your ram settings as well.
i talked to the head support manager for dell in india, and i didn't want to. all i wanted was the stupid button you press to initiate the hidden partition to reinstall windows, but that bastard wouldn't tell me. he said the computer wasn't mine, even though i told him i was a family tech attempting to fix it. i told him i didn't want to reformat through my own cd and download the drivers seperately when i know i could do everything with one push of a button via hidden partition. then he put me on the line with the head manager when i didn't ask, and before i could speak he asked me how his assistant was? i said he sucked dick, then hung up.
i swear, they should fire all the dell techs in india since they're worthless. sprint fired all their international techs after many complaints for bad customer support, now their business is rising.
dell should do the same if they want their spot back at #1, those bastards.

OH YEAH! you didn't ask that stupid tech for the system restore button did you? instead of them sending you a cd, i know on new dell laptops you can press one button when the computer boots up to fully reinstall everything automatically accessing the hidden partition.