Disk Read Error on My Laptop

[The Monkees]

Every time I turn my laptop on, it stops on a screen that reads exactly:

Loading PBR 2...done

A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

I do that and it comes up again. I can't even get into safe mode. It worked fine yesterday! Can anyone help?

[classfour]

1. Did you leave a disc in the CD or DVD drive?

2. Not Good - Hard drive failure.

[The Monkees]

Yes I did, but I've turned the computer on since then and taken the disc out.

[Forum Troll]

You need to rebuild the MBR. Boot the computer from a win98 startup floppy or something similar, then at the command prompt type FDISK /MBR this should rebuild the MBR and allow it to boot. If this does not work, your hard drive could be dead or dying. Call Dell support.

[The Monkees]

Actually I remember putting a disc in for a digital copy of the movie Juno bug. I had to download the new version of iTunes which I did, then it restarted my computer with that disc still in the drive, but it booted up fine, I put the digital copy on my computer, took the disc out and turned the computer off, then when I went to turn it on yesterday it started that crap.

[aedipuss]

boot into the computer's bios. note who manufactured your hard drive, i.e. seagate maxtor hitachi etc. go to the hard drive manufacturer's website and download their diagnostic software. run it.

[The Monkees]

I'm not sure what I'm looking for, all I see is:

System = Inspiron 6000
BIOS Version = A08 (07/22/2005)
System Tag = GHSCH81

Processor Type = Celeron M
Primary Hard Drive = 80GB HDD

Video Controller = Intel 915GM Graphics
Audio Controller = Sigmatel 9751