I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop that won't work. When I start it, it gets past the POST screen, (I think that's what it's called), in about one second, then goes to a blank screen. It eventually loads startup repair, but can't fix itself automatically. I can't bring up diagnostics with F12. The laptop may have been dropped, but I'm not sure, and I was told it's probably an HDD error. I took the laptop apart, and reinstalled the HDD (the warranty is already expired), but then it wouldn't load the startup repair, at least I don't think it would because I waited a long time. So I put the OS disc in the drive and chose to boot from disc, but it just loaded the startup repair and told me it can't fix the problem automatically. Here are the errors:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 1: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 2: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 3: unknown
Problem Signature 4: 13
Problem Signature 5: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 6: 1
Problem Signature 7: NoOsInstalled
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.7
locale ID: 1033
Is this a hard drive problem? If it is then can I replace the hard drive? If not sure, then how can I test the hard drive to make sure it's the problem?
Thanks