Hi,

I have a 2 year old T130 which I use daily for work and have experienced no problems at all with it until a few days ago when I noticed that it was taking longer than usual to power up.

I checked that all my updates were up-to-date which they are as far as I'm aware both from Tempro and Windows. I ran an AVG scan and nothing came up out of the ordinary there and I still have over a third of space left on my hard drive.

Everything was fine for a couple of days and then yesterday when I tried to switch the laptop on it wouldn't power up at all-after several tries it has eventually come on and I've been keeping it in sleep/stand by mode until i figure out what is happening. I've run the PC Diagnostic Tool and everything is coming up as a PASS except for the hard disk which is showing up as FAIL. My USB pen is not registering either when I try to use it. This said when I checked the PC Health Monitor it said my HDD was working and that my Hard Disk Drive Status was 'good'.

I'm presuming from the above that it may be a hard drive/disk issue-what is my next step? Can this kind of thing be easily repaired? Am I covered for this as it is a product issue and less than five years since I purchased the laptop?

Thanks for any help.

L.J.

Message was edited by: L.J.