Laptop

[J.Miller]

Alright. If you still have your OS CD, put it in the Computer. (Turn it on, spam the disc opener button and put it in, shut back off). Then boot it again, and spam F12. From then on you will select "Boot from CD Drive". It will then boot from your OS CD. If your Harddrive is smoked this will most likely work. If this doesn't work something else is screwed. But yea, boot it from the CD, and then repair everything. After repair boot it from the Hard drive again, and see if it works. If it doesn't you might have to boot from the CD again and restore your PC. If still nothing works after you restored it, your HDD is definately dead.

Hope that helped...

PS: If you don't want to lose all your files... There is some way of keeping them I think. Which would be, that you connect another Hard drive to your computer (External) and let it boot from that Harddrive. Then from there you can set up your internal harddrive as a "Slave" (Yes, I know it sounds funny), and move all your data to the other Harddrive. I'm not sure exactly how to do it, but that's a start at least.

Edit: Be carefull when removing the battery, as it may reset the PC's registration with Microsoft. You might need to reregister it...