HP Pavilion 20 - preparation auto repair

My HP PAvilion 20 froze on me. I went to restart it and now it shows the HP symbol and it says "preparing auto repair." Then the screen becomes a blank black screen. Is there something I can do?

Hello

The hard drive (HDD) has failed.

Your PC is guaranteed?

Contact HP here and tell them the short dst has failed.

HP will offer a HARD drive in the case of free replacement warranty. If you have not created a recovery HP disk set you need to get a recovery will contain HP to restore the image on the new HARD drive. Please tell HP that you do not have a defined recovery disk when contact you for HARD drive replacement.

Jaco

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