Major Boot up problem! **Urgent**

This is really crazy!!!! I was using my computer and for some reason needed to restart it(I did a regular restart). Any way it loaded up and said "Operating System not found." I was kinda shocked by this. The OS(XP Pro) never came up ever again.So i figured i would run my system recovery cd and it wouldn't boot from cd. I figured i would try to find a boot disk online with the cdrom drivers. I did this and had to restart again and now when it boots up all i get is a blinking underscore. It still goes through the splash screen and i can load the bios, but after that it is unresponsive. Norton a couple of days ago came up saying it found (something)f.worm virus.
Any suggestions on what to do?

Can you run in SafeMode?

it doesn't do anything

it goes through my HP splash screen, but not the OS. when i ran FDisk before, it didn't show any partitions, then i tried a boot disk that had a file to recover lost partitions, and now all i get is the HP splash screen and then a black screen with a blinking _

To run in SafeMode i think you press F8 on bootup.

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Im in the house with tinnies of lager

ill try that
thanks, i hope it works

Does the BIOS detect your HDD? If FDISK can't see your partitions then maybe a cable is loose or something.

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Originally posted by Ideas Man
Does the BIOS detect your HDD? If FDISK can't see your partitions then maybe a cable is loose or something.

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Yeah because restarting you machine loosens cables....:bigyello:

No, but they can be very loose and just loose contact.