Restore disks failing?

[outeast]

My aging Amilo Pi 3625 today failed to start up, telling me that it could not find the OS. I have been trying to restore from the backup/restore disks I made when I first got the laptop, but I am getting the almost immediate message "An error has occurred (6)". What does this mean, please, and is there anything I can do? Or does it just mean my computer is dead? I've had to restore from these disks twice in the past, and not had problems. There is no visible damage to the disk, and the disks cave been stored carefully. Please respond asap, I'm tearing my hair out as this is my primary work computer...! Thank you!

[sabrex]

run this http://tinyurl.com/sysdiags tell us if it finds an error and comes back with a code.

[outeast]

Thanks! I've just finished that. It said no error found, but it also said it found no harddisk, no optical drive (odd since it was running from a CD), and no modem (re. the latter, the morning that the whole thing stopped working I could not connect to the Internet). Does this suggest anything? Thank you for your help...

[sabrex]

Could be that your hard disk has failed. Loadup bios area by pressing F2 or del on your keyboard and check the hdd is seen in the bios. If its not in there then confirms your hard disk is fail.

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different model but should be simular

[outeast]

It shows SATA hard drive 1, so not that? Or could be HDD fail anyway? It's quite an old machine (it's been struggling for a while, and it wasn't exactly a powerhouse to begin with) so catastrophic failure wouldn't surprise me. Equally I don't want to chuck it if it's just some stupid, fairly easily remedied problem!