My sister's laptop went bust

and the only thing that pops up now is "press 11 for recovery." The problem is, she never made any recovery discs when she first got the laptop. I have a Win XP Pro installation CD, so if I just install that, would it fix the problem or make it worse? I shouldn't think there should be any problems, but just to be on the safe side, I thought I'd ask here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well I don't know what went bust. I wasn't there when it happened. From what she told me, she was running a DVD movie and the PC froze or something, and then when she tried restarting, it just goes to the "Press F11 for recovery" screen. Then it says "Disc read error. Press Ctrl+Alt+del." I dunno if that's 'cause there's no recovery CD in the drive or if the HDD is busted. I can go to Bios and whatever, but it won't run Windows.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

There is nothing in the drive.

I can try repair install and see if that works. Doesn't look like there's much else I can do.

Update: Ah looks like the HD is damaged, as I can't reinstall Windows. D'oh.

Ah, but there's a Drive D that I could possibly format. Not sure what sort of drive it is though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

If I format on to D, is it possible to even repair the C drive and get the stuff back? The laptop is still under warranty though, so that's good :3

Update: Do'h. I get "An error occured during directory emmuration" whenever I try to get to access drive C. Guess it's totally gone. My sister paid for lots of songs on Itunes, and she didn't do any recent backups. She only had this laptop for two years.

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