Hi yall. Im new to the forums and really need some help.
I have fdisked and formatted this lap top before with no problems at all. It was running great for about 6 months. Then yesterday I turned it on and it ran a scan disk and at the end said " no operating system found". Nothing I did would get Win ME to come up. So... I was gonna start all over. This time I get to the page that says Create Primary DOS Partition Current fixed disk drive: 1 Verifying drive integrity, 0%complete. It has been on 0% for an hour. Does anyone know what is going on here? Thanks!

Find out what kind of Hard drive it is. It might have gone bad. The best thing to do is to use a 3rd party hard drive diagnostic program to check for S.M.A.R.T. errors ( If possible ) and any other error codes that might come up.