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My ThinkPad runs fine, most of the time, barring any virus hickups, which I evntually take care of (ie: use some kind of virus fix software)

I normally don't bother shutting it down, only every now and then. Usually I just close it and let it do its thing.

The other day I open it up and upon startup I get a black screen w/ this message:

"Error
0200: Failure Fixed Disk 0
Press to Setup"

After hitting F1, it goes into the BIOS Setup Utility which does not seem to help, either when restarting or trying to get it configured etc.

Each time after it goes back to the same screen whether I restart it or not

Is it dead? Is it fixable? Should I just let the IBM people handle the problem? I do have some private content on the hard drive...