operating system not detected?

[lucie87]

My ibm laptop started freezing on me, and had to be shut down by power button before it would work again, and this happened a few times over a few days, then my friend looked over it and tried downloading XP's sp3 onto it but it froze halfway through, and since then whenever i try to switch it on it comes up with no operating system detected, before i get to the point where i can go into safe mode or anything. I do have an access ibm button which i have used before to restore to factory settings, but it comes up with something different now. It was something like boot from a temporary device, start as normal or another option i cant remember. I have restored bios settings to defaults, and thats about all i can do with it at the moment.

I was just wondering if anyone has come accross this before and if it is fixable.

Thank you much in advance

[noknojon]

Hi lucie87 -

Is this the same computer that had those infection problems about 2 months ago or is this another unit ??

That one had problems recognising your drives also -

Have you been setting Restore points and doing Microsoft Updates lately ??

Thank You -

[Firefox]

Looks like your friend may have deleted the recovery partition set by IBM. If he did that explains the different menu.

Second, you need to run some test on that Hard Drive, it may be going out, or is already out.