Help my ACER 2920 - Frozen and won't reboot!

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AdamD Posts 1 Registration date Sunday October 4, 2009 Status Member Last seen October 5, 2009 - Oct 5, 2009 at 02:48 PM
xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Oct 5, 2009 at 06:24 PM
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
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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,826
Oct 5, 2009 at 06:24 PM
The hard drive is dead or has a bad connection. I would first try to remove and replace the hard drive. Sometimes that will fix a bad connection. Don't mess around with the laptop's internals unless you know what you are doing. If you can't easily remove and replace the hard drive don't disassemble the laptop case.

You might need to buy a new hard drive and re-install Windows. Most likely all your data is lost.

Sorry about the bad news
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