DONT PANIC!

My lap top used to do that all the time. Its either a bad Hard Drive or the DVD player is bad. I am gonna put my money on the HD. they can replace the HD without having to replace anything else in the machine, OR you can get one at the store, and follow on line instructions. that Grinding noise is the processor trying to read information from the HD and it cant find it.


If you take it to a shop, they can install all your old information from your current HD onto the new one. Ususally done in less than a day.

Since its LESS than a year, most parts are covered by the MANUFACTURE warrenty. Look to the website, or ask the place that sold it to you.

it sucks when machines turn on ya, but now and again, things need to be replaced. When it happened to mine, there was no amount of virus scans, registry repair scans, or coddling that could coax it back to life. it simply needed to be replaced. I replaced it with an even bigger one, and had my info transferred. Hasnt made a peep in 3 years since.

Good luck.