Ok I hope I'm in the right forum... I hope anyone can try to help, I have a Compaq laptop and it's about 3 years old nothing ancient and I frequently run virus and all that. But I was on it the other day and all the sudden it started beeping and the screen turned blue with white writing almost like a shortout like went into dos mode, shut down restarted itself, and said something about nostkrnl.exe corruption error. I ran dskchck and it said it recovered and it was checked and fine. And I even ran my backup cd, and nothing is working. When I run the BIOS startup and do the hard disk scan it says estimated time 70 minutes, and after about 15 it says error #2 failed. Now it's to the point sometimes the screen won't come on or the desktop won't load. Is this the hard drive, or just a windows type error? Anyone? Thanks for any help...