laptop question? fried hard drive?

[biffbacon]

so i have an old ibm laptop. like a 333 mhtz or something. so yesterday my friend was using it, and it started to act a little weird, and now it wont boot up. it says please install system disk, and the hard disk doesnt seem to be spinning. think i fried the hard drive? could it be anything else?

 

[Abhi]

The MBR or partition might have been corrupted.

If you have the data backed up, delete all existing partitions and try re installing the OS....