I need computer HELP!!!

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by BeerAdvocate

I got it to the BIOS screen and it said: "Please select boot device" and my options were: "4M-JLMS XJ HD166S" or "1BAFE Slot 0240U4110" choosing either one takes me back to that black screen....

4M-JLMS XJ HD166S is a LiteOn CD drive, I'm not sure about the BAFE, but it doesn't look like a hard drive to me.

It appears to me that your hard drive is toast. I can't be positive without looking at it, but that's what it seems. If you're lucky and have lived a clean life, reseating the cable connections to the hard drive or replacing the cable may fix the problem. Not being seen in the BIOS suggests that it is worse than a corrupted boot sector (which could also prevent booting).

I have had more hard drive failures in the last 2-3 years than the prior 20 combined. They seem to be built cheaply these days.

It is generally possible but expensive to get data off of a hard drive that has suffered a hardware failure. I have my desktop backup all data files daily automatically to a separate drive since I don't trust hard drives anymore.