Completely erased hard drive

Well the other day I was playing my laptop, and I go to make a peanut butter jelly sandwich, and when I come back, my laptop is a black screen with this blinking white line on the top left. I powered off + powered on the laptop, still wouldn't start. So I press F2 to see what the problem is ... and I saw that my laptop had about 600kb of memory left. I figured this was bad and the reason my laptop wouldn't start.

So what I did next was very stupid ... I got a special program that would completely erase my hard drive, ran it, and now when I try to do a clean install of Windows Vista, it can't find my hard drive! And lucky me, I don't have any of the discs that came with my laptop. ( except the Windows Vista upgrade disc )

Someone told me I needed a "SATA driver from Acer for the SATA controller." However I have absolutely no idea what this means, and no idea where I could find this.

Oh and probably should have mentioned ... my laptop is Acer Aspire 5570-2067 Windows Vista 160GB HDD blah blah if that helps.

If someone could elaborate on what device driver or whatever I need, and also tell me EXACTLY where I could download it ( I've been redirected by many people to go to the Acer website, where I spend 10 minutes looking, but am not sure what I'm looking for. ) I'm a stupid 15 year old girl who shouldn't be messing with computers, and I have no idea what I'm doing!

 

my suggestion;
1) find someone who knows about computers to fix it.
2) get imaging software and use it.
3) don't ever run a program which erases your entire hard drive.

what exactly was the program? where did you see the 600 kb of memory left? was it ram or video memory? you know something about computers, at least you got into bios... oh, and welcome to the forums! you should still be able to get into the bios. go back there and make sure you didn't read something wrong. also, it may be possible to undelete the hard drive. depending on the program and what you did, that is.

 

I used Dariks Boot and Nuke.

And it says 634kb on system memory.

 

so, let me get this straight. your computer was acting up, so you nuked your hard drive with a program which "hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis."??? a program with no GUI, no less? this sounds fishy to me... but i digress. i think your best bet is to find someone who can do it for you. a fifteen year old girl should have some tech-savvy friends that can accomplish this... best of luck!

 

epic fail

your files are gone, your os is gone, and you are up a creek. Next time don't trust someone as far as you can throw them, that way you can kick em afterwards.

--ssx--