Vertigo Wrote:

Incadude Wrote:you should probably use an ubuntu live disk. To see if it can find your hard drive.

I've tried booting it from a windows xp, windows vista, and a windows 7 disc and it doesn't even give the option screen to boot from the disk -__-

xero1 Wrote:Disable everything in the BIOS that is not needed for booting. Sound, Wi-Fi, NIC, etc.. But it sounds like it is your HDD. Can you put your HDD into an onther PC just to check?

I'll try to disable everything. And idk much about the insides of a computer so prolly not atm

EDIT: Tried that and it didnt work. Same deal.

With Gateway laptop's it is very easy to remove the HDD, most of the time it is just 2 screws. I bet you if you just remove the HDD the system will boot from a live CD. The system is stuck, because it is trying to boot from a HDD that is bad. Did you also disable stuff like SMART?