Pull any and all camera flash drives/thumb drives/cds/dvds. Reboot. Joy?
Enter BIOS (usually DEL or F2), make sure BIOS can see the drive, and check boot order, make sure boot order includes your hard drive (set it to the TOP priority for this purpose). Reboot. Joy?
**If BIOS does not see the drive, major hdd fail. ALL stop./
If no joy, the boot sector of your hdd is corrupted, either by a virus, or Win pooped the bed on last shutdown. A win7 Recovery CD will have an option to fix the boot, if you have a Win7 box to make a boot CD from.
Other options (if BIOS sees the drive):
Bootable antivirus disc to check for bugs.
MiniWinXP or MiniWin7 to boot and run chkdsk and get data off...
Sling it in another machine as a secondary drive to do AV and chkdsk routines and get data off.
f2
then tabbed right to “boot”
it lists 1-6
HDD #1 /SSD # 1 at top
then
2. eSATA HDD
3. CD/DVD
4. FDD
5.LAN
6 USB memory
assuming I want 1?