ACER 2920 - No HDD available in reboot

[adamd2009]

Hello,
Please help, my acer 2920 froze yesterday so I held the power on button for 5 secons to turn it off. When I boot it up it comes to a black screen and says 'operating system not found'

When I put in my recovery cd/backup cd thingy, it just says 'No HDD available'.

Im not worried about loosing data if it means my laptop will work again.
Any advice highly welcome
Poor desperate student
Adam

Apolagies if this is in the wrong section - Im a newbie at this

 

[WR2]

You want to try a bootable rescue disk first. You can build yourself one using BartPE with another computer.
Did you get into BIOS to see if the HDD was showing up there?

 

[adamd2009]

Thanks for the reply you dont understand how much i need it my parents are killing me lol, I will try now and report back

 

[adamd2009]

Also I forgot to mention im running Vista. would I be able to reboot my entire system with a windows xp disk?
Interestingly my harddrive is not showing up.

Thanks

 

[WR2]

Also I forgot to mention im running Vista. would I be able to reboot my entire system with a windows xp disk?
Interestingly my harddrive is not showing up.
Thanks

Yes; your laptop will run fine on XP.
You say your HDD isn't showing up in BIOS?

A replacement HDD would run about $55 WD 250GB 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive