Vertigo Wrote:

xero1 Wrote: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?

That's cool to know. I'll try as soon as my dad gets home.

And gateway bios doesn't give you the option to do that (fail).

If anyone else has suggestions please please comment.

And thank you to all who have commented so far.

If it will boot from the the live CD with no HDD and by some chance you have a 2nd HDD that is the same, try to swap the PCB. The green thing with all the chips on it. Sometimes that is what goes bad and if that is what is bad then after you swap it your system will work just like before.