Mine was doing the same thing to me this week, all of a sudden it sounded like the hard drive was constipated or something, making some funky noises, and then it turned off, and when i tried to turn it back on, it said that the c drive couldnt be found. I wanted to cry, I have all my nieces baby pictuers on here, like a thousand of them. And get this, my 1 year waranty went up the 6th of this month. And then the next day I took it in to work bc our computer guy was in the office to set up some new system, and he says "ok lemme take a look at it", i go to turn it on, and everything comes on fine. AUUUHHH!!!!! But I probably still have to go get it fixed, he said it sounded like the harddrive was going. AUUH!!!