What is wrong with my Vista Home Premium-using Acer Notebook

I bought an Acer Aspire 5920 notebook computer at Wal-Mart over a year ago. It ran on Windows Vista Home Premium, until last Saturday. It came up to the usual Acer boot screen, but then it made an odd sound and the screen went black. An error message showed up saying "Operating system cannot be located." What I would like to know is: what has gone wrong with my laptop? And more importantly, how do I fix it?

Hello Chrissy,it seems that Windows Vista has gone bad or is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled. When we reinstall windows vista,your laptop would be back to day one when you got it from Walmart and everything would be lost.

But before that we can try few steps in order to fix this problem without reinstallation because reinstallation would erase everything out from your computer.

If you have Windows Vista DVD that you got from Acer or Walmart,that would help a lot here. Once you have got the CD,feel free to contact me for further queries. I am online on yahoo 24*7.

It sounds like your hard drive has died.... Take it to a local IT person and have them replace the hard drive....