Hello, I have a Dell laptop a coworker asked me to look at. I'm no computer genius, but I can handle some small stuff. The laptop won't boot past the dell screen and won't let me access the bios or boot settings. Someone suggested the ACPI but I wouldn't know the first thing to do for that. My coworker has left it on the boot screen for over a couple hours without any change. I decided to take out the hard drive to see how it'd boot. The laptop actually went all the way through the loading screen and gave me the missing hard drive error. I tried again and it let me access the bios and boot settings. I don't think it could be the hard drive error, but it would be nice if it was that simple. As far as I know, the hard drive has never given any errors before and it just seems like it should give me a missing hard drive error. I appreciate any help with this!