This is not misleading. last week, i was playing need for speed most wanted on my laptop. For the first time in my laptops history, it froze on me.i had to head to work at this time though so i just force shut it down.
Anyways when i came back it wouldn't turn on. It said disk type error or no disk error.
so here is what i did.
1. i kept turning it off and on again hoping it would work but i would give in for nothing.
2. tried to use the CD/ROM but it wouldn't read from the cd drive either.
3. i took out the hard drive and changed the boot order in bios and then tried using the cd drive.
4. This time it worked. i tucked in an 8 Gb usb drive to install my windows on but windows wouldn't allow it.
5. there is always an alternative. i changed the cd to Ubuntu 0.04. i have the cd for about a year now. on the site here, http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop, there is ubuntu 12.04 LTS. i personally have not tried that yet but am sure the installation will do the same as 10.04 LTS.
6. So i installed Ubuntu 10.04 in the USb. it took about an hour or less.
7. there was my laptop. UP and running.
8. i downloaded important files for the new installation. for instance, the mp3 codecs among others. i also installed VLC
9. This was a temporary fix for my laptop. this helped me to do my basic work since it took me a whole week to actually get the hard drive for my laptop.If one goes through the same issue, hope this helps.
NOTE: sometimes when the computer displays disk type or no disk error, there is a possibility that it actually is not the hard drive. It was the HDD in my case though.
GOOD LUCK!!
Anyways when i came back it wouldn't turn on. It said disk type error or no disk error.
so here is what i did.
1. i kept turning it off and on again hoping it would work but i would give in for nothing.
2. tried to use the CD/ROM but it wouldn't read from the cd drive either.
3. i took out the hard drive and changed the boot order in bios and then tried using the cd drive.
4. This time it worked. i tucked in an 8 Gb usb drive to install my windows on but windows wouldn't allow it.
5. there is always an alternative. i changed the cd to Ubuntu 0.04. i have the cd for about a year now. on the site here, http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop, there is ubuntu 12.04 LTS. i personally have not tried that yet but am sure the installation will do the same as 10.04 LTS.
6. So i installed Ubuntu 10.04 in the USb. it took about an hour or less.
7. there was my laptop. UP and running.
8. i downloaded important files for the new installation. for instance, the mp3 codecs among others. i also installed VLC
9. This was a temporary fix for my laptop. this helped me to do my basic work since it took me a whole week to actually get the hard drive for my laptop.If one goes through the same issue, hope this helps.
NOTE: sometimes when the computer displays disk type or no disk error, there is a possibility that it actually is not the hard drive. It was the HDD in my case though.
GOOD LUCK!!
