:lol: daughter had a paddy with her laptop as it was working a bit slow, threw it on the floor,and suprise suprise it won't work any more ( ring any bells mo4 ?)it'll start up,then goes to a grey screen where the message "cannot find operating system " flashes up ,pressing any of the "f" keys has no effect so i can't get into recovery mode,asked the guy in pc world and he recons the hard drive is knackered .Any ideas anyone ?just to top it off some of the keys have gone west as well ! i don't have a windows xp recovery disc so i can't re-install anything ,is it doomed or can it be economically fixed ?