[hallo]

I was on my laptop, Inspiron 8100, and everything was fine, no errors or anything. Took a break and when I came back my computer had a black screen. I tried to restart and it goes to the dell load page and windows Vista page but that’s it. It goes back and forth between the two pages. A blue screen pops up between them for about half a second. I took a picture of it so I could read it, the error code is 0x000000ed. After this when I restarted my laptop it showed me disk boot failure. Every time I tried to recover the HDD I failed and got the same message.

[joeybob]

for how long did you leave your pc on? and also try formatting the harddisk and installing windows again as some files of windows might have been damaged somehow by a virus or ? it is really hard to say unless you try a couple of things to see what the problem.

[Seifer]

windows must have crashed damaging some file because the laptop was left for some time, you shouldnt let the laptop stay one if you are not using it. shut it or put it on standby. you might consider trying to reinstall windows if nothing else works.

[superstrikertwo]

Where did you leave your laptop? Was it on a desk or did you leave it on a couch or chair? Were you downloading anything such as drivers, patches, or programs? If so try starting in Safe Mode (If you can) and uninstall what you just installed. If worst comes to worst you will most likely have to re-format.

[lamos]

if you are lucky then the harddisk has not been damaged. whatever caused the crashing should be software related since it just crashes. only sometimes it would crash because of the harddisk being damaged, and there should be other signs when that happens, like it sticking on the "blue screen of death" and making a very weird kind of noise or so.

[jessi_rubin]

try a SMART test on that hard disk by plugging it to some other system. surely it will tell whether its fine or not