I went to restart my pc and when it went to boot back up it came up telling me to press ctrl+alt+del but after doing that it still wont boot. I read somewhere that to go into the bios and make sure it boots from hard drive first but still wont. be much more than just grateful if someone could point me in the right way on what to do
thanks loads,

dean, September 2010

This seems as if the settings for your hard drive are not set in the bios.

Go into your bios and use the autodetect feature which should then give the manufacturer and capacity for the hard disk, if it doesn't have it check the connections on the hard disk, obviously the hard disk should be set as a master,then try booting.

Another problem which can occur is that the FAT32 or NTFS partition has been damaged and this will mean that you will have to boot from a bootable CD which has the OS on and install it, I have had this problem which solved it.

Hope this helps mate, let me know how you get on

Kenno, November 2010