taxidermist: Help A Taxi Out

taxidermist 01.19.12	(comp screen) http://oi39.tinypic.com/2yxrq5u.jpg (what it says) http://oi43.tinypic.com/293hatj.jpg
MisterSteel 01.19.12	Copyright 1997-2000? Damn.
kris. 01.19.12	it looks like he fucked up his hard drive what it's saying is that it's looking for something to boot up with ie an operating system, but can't find access to one
taxidermist 01.19.12	"Copyright 1997-2000? Damn." Eh, idk man. He bought it in November 2010.
taxidermist 01.19.12	@Kris In order to do that do I need some sort of disc? One that may have come with the computer when he first bought it? Or is it basically just fucked.
kris. 01.19.12	if you have a boot or install disc lying around you could try that and boot from the cd drive and see what it does
Satellite 01.19.12	protip: copyright date and the date it was manufactured are two very, very different things
kris. 01.19.12	also wtf taxi this is why you don't mac dummy
taxidermist 01.19.12	Haha, I always used mac. It's what I know/am used to.
kris. 01.19.12	before you try anything, check the boot menu to see what the priority is make sure it's trying to boot from the hard drive before any network servers or cd or usb or anything
taxidermist 01.19.12	(Noob incoming) How do I do that?
kris. 01.19.12	when you boot the computer up, when it's loading the bios, it should say like press f2 for settings and press f11 or something for boot menu
kris. 01.19.12	press whatever it says is the boot menu asap
taxidermist 01.19.12	Ok, I pressed Alt+ctrl+del (the only thing I remember from a PC) and got the list of options F9=Diagnostics F10=setup F11=system recovery F12=boot from LAN esc=Boot menu I pressed on the poot menu, but it just took me to the same exact screen. All of them did. The only one that took me somewhere else is F10. Don't know where to go from there, though.
kris. 01.19.12	yea setup takes you to the bios setup which is basic computer stuff like super basic try downloading ubuntu on your computer, burning it to a blank disk, and booting from that you can get it on their official site
taxidermist 01.19.12	Gracias. Any other help is appreciated.
Recspecs 01.19.12	If you get it up and running again, deleting System 32 should prevent these problems from happening again.
taxidermist 01.19.12	Lol, oh recspecs. I'm not THAT gullible :p
Recspecs 01.19.12	Lol. Good times.
Horsehammer 01.19.12	fuck it
Adabelle 01.19.12	This happened to me like a couple of months ago. So I put in the repair disk and ran that. What it did was restore the computer to an earlier setup or something, did mean that I lost all my non backed up documents that had been made since that earlier saved setup thing.. But it now works so I wont complain, barely lost anything, back up most things to an external hard drive anyway.