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W98 Operating System not found on dell 7500 laptop - Fan not working

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I have Dell Inspirion 7500 laptop with W98 which is very old. Suddenly I got a black screen w/operating system not found. When I rebooted it's making a loud buzzing sound and at times when rebooting on several occasions I get two different messages 1. operating system not found and 2. pc unexpectedly shutdown due to hardware/software problems do you want to start in safe mode, safe mode w/networkng etc. I thought it might be a HD problem but when I inspected the laptop the fan is not working! Could this be the problem. Please let me know what I can do. Much appreciated!

Alex
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Thanks guys much appreciation for your time and patience. I will keep you posted. Laters I gotta get to work. Peace.
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Ran Dell Diagnostics Utility and all passed including fan except for the HDD so I believe the HD is gone let me know what you all thinkg. Thanks agan.

Test Errors
IDE Disk 0 - Seek Test                                     : Fail
  Status: Fail  Status Code: DOS DDG-D DISK 040 040
  Device: IDE_Disk_0  Test: Seek_Test
  Release: 1035 Module(s): Disk
  Msg: IDE device failed: Timeout waiting for drive not busy.
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Thanks Sys that's what I'll do. Thanks for everything. Laters!
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Thanks.