Hard-drive no longer recognised as a bootable option.

Hey all,

I was playing Black Ops when my Asus M60J suddenly shut down. At the time, my laptop was quite hot due to Black Ops' considerable usage. Upon starting up again, i received

"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"

I checked out the booting order and there was only the option of booting from a DVD. I have tried holding down f8 to access the windows 7 inbuilt repairer but it was to no avail. Does this mean that my hard drive has possibly died out on me? I got the laptop in December last year.

As i bought my laptop with a copy of Windows 7 preinstalled, i am unable to use the Windows 7 DVD to repair it. At the bottom of my laptop, the Windows tag reads "Window Pro AO" but i am quite sure that my laptop is Home Premium, however i may be wrong.

Anyway, i would really appreciate any help and thanks in advance.

hello and welcome.
check your BIOS first.. make sure that's the HDD and DVD-R is detected. and select the first boot to DVD-R

can you take snapshot your BIOS and the information one..

from your snapshot. i don't saw your hdd information.
when startup the computer. press F12 to choose the boot option, and select the DVD device, load your DVD OS and see what you get.

try this tool Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.