Does the disc spin at all?
Does the *click click click* sound constitute as spinning? It just keeps saying "operating system not found." I did put the XP CD in for a recovery but it said that there is no hard disk when the hard drive WAS in correctly on the computer. I could use the HP recovery disks, but if it keeps saying that the hard drive is not found I think I should just get a new hard drive.
This will probably be my new baby, since the old hard drive that came with the computer was a Samsung which I heard has a bad reputation anyhow.