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operating system not found after funny noise/vibration mean hard drive is died.
Nothing do with battery, motherboard, and virus. No matter how old hard drive is. My father own laptop for 10 years and hard drive still alive. My friend's laptop hard drive got died after few months.
So you can't re-install O/S because hard drive is died. It's easy to figure it out.
Solve the problem. You need replace the new hard drive.
Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Spinpoint M Series MP0402H 40GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
Under $50 for that.
I got the new hard drive from Newegg. Works great!
It's a pain to install everything again, change settings, hook up network, etc., but at least it works again, and it wasn't too expensive.