disk error??

[sirccchar]

i don't know what happened but my laptop seems to be dead. when i turn it on it say's "disk error occured, restart by clt alt del", but i restart and get the same thing?? is my hard drive dead??

[K. Eng]

Could you post what model ThinkPad you have? If you press the 'Access IBM' button on bootup, can you get the the pre-desktop area to run diagnostics?

I think I've seen the error you describe before on my old Dell Latitude CPi. Unfortunately, the disk was not recoverable from that failure

[sirccchar]

i have a t42.